The Tulsa race massacre,also known as the Tulsa race riot or the Black Wall Street massacre,was a two-day-long white supremacist terrorist massacre that took place between May 31 and June 1,1921,when mobs of white residents,some of whom had been appointed as deputies and armed by city government officials,attacked black residents and destroyed homes and businesses of the Greenwood District in Tulsa,Oklahoma. The event is considered one of the worst incidents of racial violence in American history. The attackers burned and destroyed more than 35 square blocks of the neighborhood—at the time one of the wealthiest black communities in the United States,colloquially known as "Black Wall Street".
James Mountain Inhofe is an American retired politician who served as a United States senator from Oklahoma from 1994 to 2023. A member of the Republican Party,he is the longest serving U.S. senator from Oklahoma. He served in various elected offices in the state of Oklahoma for nearly sixty years,between 1966 and 2023.
Robert Eugene Lavender was an American judge who served as Justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court,serving from 1965 until 2007. He served as the Court's Chief Justice from 1979 to 1981. Lavender died on March 23,2020,at the age of 93.
KTUL is a television station in Tulsa,Oklahoma,United States,affiliated with ABC and owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group. The station's studios are located at Lookout Mountain in southwestern Tulsa,and its primary transmitter is located on South 321st Avenue East,adjacent to the Muskogee Turnpike,in unincorporated southeastern Tulsa County.
The Miss Oklahoma competition selects a winner to compete on behalf of Oklahoma in the Miss America pageant. Miss Oklahoma has won the Miss America crown on five occasions. Also,in the years when city representatives were common,Norma Smallwood won,competing as Miss Tulsa,giving the state of Oklahoma a total of six crowns. Oklahoma is also one of three states to win back to back Miss America titles.
James Donald French was an American double murderer who was the last person executed under Oklahoma's death penalty laws prior to Furman v. Georgia,which suspended capital punishment in the United States from 1972 until 1976.
Joseph James Maraziti was an American politician,lawyer and judge from New Jersey. He served one-term as a U.S. Representative from 1973 to 1975. He served in the New Jersey General Assembly from 1958 to 1967 and in the New Jersey Senate from 1968 to 1972.
Eugene Edward "Gene" Stipe was an American politician from Oklahoma who holds the record as the longest serving member of the Oklahoma Senate. His influence in the state senate earned him the nickname "the Prince of Darkness," and he had a reputation for filibustering. He was a member of the Democratic Party.
Harold Dale Cook,also known as H. Dale Cook,was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma,the United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma and the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma.
Thomas Rutherford Brett was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma.
Curtis L. Lawson (1935–2008) was an American state politician from Tulsa,Oklahoma. In 1964 he was one of the first three African Americans elected to the Oklahoma House of Representatives since A. C. Hamlin in 1908.
Robert Virl Cullison was an American politician who served in the Oklahoma House of Representatives from the 74th district from 1973 to 1979,in the Oklahoma Senate from the 34th district from 1979 to 1995,and as President pro tempore of the Oklahoma Senate from 1988 to 1995,as a member of the Democratic Party.
Robert D. Simms was a justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court from 1972 to 1999. He served as chief justice in 1985 to 1986.
The 1916 Kendall Orange and Black football team represented Henry Kendall College,which was later renamed the University of Tulsa,during the 1916 college football season. In their fourth year under head coach Sam P. McBirney,the Orange and Black compiled a 10–0 record,won the Oklahoma Intercollegiate Conference championship,shut out five of ten opponents,and outscored their opponents by a total of 566 to 40,including high-scoring wins against Missouri Mines (117–0),St. Gregory's (82–0),Arkansas Cumberland (81–0),and Haskell (46–0).
John Michael O'Connor is an American attorney and politician who served as the 19th attorney general of Oklahoma between 2021 and 2023. O’Connor was previously a shareholder of Hall Estill and a nominee to be a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma,the United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma,and the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma.
Valjean McCarty Hessing was a Choctaw painter,who worked in the Bacone flatstyle. Throughout her career,she won 9- awards for her work and was designated a Master Artist by the Five Civilized Tribes Museum in 1976. Her artworks are in collections of the Heard Museum of Phoenix,Arizona;the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa,Oklahoma;the Southern Plains Indian Museum in Anadarko,Oklahoma;and the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian of Santa Fe,New Mexico,among others.
Jenkin Lloyd Jones Sr. was the longtime owner and editor of the Tulsa Tribune.
Robert Elliott Freer was an Ohio attorney who served as chair of the Federal Trade Commission from January 1,1939,to December 31,1939,again from January 1,1944,to December 31,1944,and a third time from January 1,1948,to December 31,1948.
Gentner Frederick Drummond is an American attorney,rancher,banker,and politician from Oklahoma. Drummond is a member of the Republican Party and the current Attorney General of Oklahoma. He flew in the Gulf War air campaign during the Persian Gulf War,gaining national coverage for being one of the first American pilots interviewed during the war. He resides in the McBirney Mansion and is a member of the Oklahoma Drummond ranching family.
Harriet Wright O'Leary was an American teacher and politician. She was the first woman to serve on the tribal council of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma and the first woman to vie for the position as Principal Chief.
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