Word: oklahomas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week the committee would look into the commodity holdings of one of its own members: Oklahoma's Democrat Elmer Thomas. After his wife's name had bobbed up on a list of cotton traders, Senator Thomas said he would send his brokerage records to the committee...
...front row of the U.S. Supreme Court last week sat Ada Lois Sipuel, a shy and slender Negro girl, watching the justices. One by one they leaned forward to ask questions; and usually their questions were phrased to badger the attorneys for the State of Oklahoma. They were all talking about...
...daughter of an Oklahoma clergyman, had applied for admission to the University of Oklahoma law school two years ago. University officials conceded that her application was in order, but refused it-even though there is no other law school in the state for Negroes to go to. Ada Sipuel brought suit...
...Oklahoma provided the Court with the opportunity to hand down this ruling by denying a Negro girl admission to the University of Oklahoma Law School. The decision leaves the State of Oklahoma with the alternatives of admitting the student to the law school by the beginning of the next term, January 15, or of establishing separate and equal facilities for her by the same date. The emphasis of the Court's ruling centered on the time element. It removed the possibility that a state may recognize equal rights in theory, but delay interminably in providing proper facilities...
...from a protection of Negro rights into a protection of corporations to conduct their business in any way they saw fit. However, for almost half a century the Court has been in the process of slowly altering its point of view. It struck down the "grandfather clause" of the Oklahoma constitution. It has made it exceedingly difficult for the Democratic party in the South to exclude Negroes from the party primaries except by threat or use of force. It has overruled convictions of both whites and Negroes which were secured without regard to due process...