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 was an American politician who served as a United States senator from Oklahoma from 1994 to 2023. A member of the Republican Party,he was the longest serving U.S. senator from Oklahoma. He served in various elected offices in the state of Oklahoma for nearly 60 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.
William C. Liedtke Jr. ( LIT-kee;September 27,1924 —March 1,1991) was an American petroleum executive,best known as the co-founder of Pennzoil with his older brother J. Hugh Liedtke.
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.
Kurt Bane Burris was an American gridiron football player. He played college football as a center and linebacker for the University of Oklahoma from 1951 to 1954. He was a consensus All-American at center in 1954 and finished second in the 1954 Heisman Trophy voting. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1960.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Charles G. Bowman is a former American football coach and athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College in Miami,Oklahoma from 1967 to 1971 compiling a record of 40–8 and leading his teams to two NJCAA National Football Championships,in 1967 and 1969. Bowman was also the athletic director at Northeastern Oklahoma A&M from 1967 to 1972.
Leroy Montgomery was an American gridiron football coach,scout,and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Cameron State Agricultural College—now known as Cameron University—in Lawton,Oklahoma from 1955 to 1963 and Dodge City Community College in Dodge City,Kansas from 1965 to 1966. He led the Cameron Aggies to consecutive junior college football national championships,in 1960 and 1961.
Samuel Albert "Red" 'Robertson was an American football and basketball coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College in Miami,Oklahoma from 1945 to 1966 compiling a record of 162–49–7. He led his 1959 team to a NJCAA National Football Championship. Robertson was also the head basketball coach at Northeastern Oklahoma A&M from 1945 to 1957,tallying a mark of 128–91,and the school's athletic director from 1945 to 1967.
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