Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher
Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher | |
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Born | Ada Lois Sipuel February 8, 1924 Chickasha, Oklahoma, U.S. |
Died | October 18, 1995 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, U.S. | (aged 71)
Alma mater | Langston University University of Oklahoma |
Occupation | Lawyer |
Known for | Key figure in the Oklahoma civil rights movement |
Spouse | Warren Fisher (m. 1944) |
Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher (February 8, 1924 – October 18, 1995) was a key figure in the
Early life
Fisher was born six years before the lynching of
Supreme Court case
Her brother, Lemuel Travis Sipuel (1921–1961), had planned to challenge segregationist policies of the
Fisher, however, was willing to delay her legal career in order to challenge
Legal education
In order to comply, the state of Oklahoma created the
Sipuel had to dine in a separate chained-off guarded area of the law school cafeteria. She recalled that years later some white students would crawl under the chain and eat with her when the guards were not around. Her lawsuit and tuition were supported by hundreds of small donations, and she believed she owed it to those donors to make it.
Later career
She graduated in 1951 with a Bachelor of Laws[9][10] degree and began practicing law in her hometown of Chickasha in 1952.
In 1992, Oklahoma governor David Walters appointed her to the Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma, which she noted in an interview, "completes a forty-five-year cycle." She further stated, "Having suffered severely from bigotry and racial discrimination as a student, I am sensitive to that kind of thing," and she planned to bring a new dimension to university policies.
Before her death in 1995, Fisher was a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority and also was a professor at Langston University. She died of cancer, in Oklahoma City in October 1995.[11]
In 1996 she was inducted posthumously in the Oklahoma Women's Hall of Fame. The University of Oklahoma dedicated the Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher Garden in her honor.
Family
Ada Lois Sipuel, on March 2, 1944, in
See also
- Category:Tulsa race massacre (re: survivors)
Bibliography
Notes
- ^ a b c Hall, 2009.
- ^ a b Fisher, Chapter 3, p. 45.
- ^ Finkelman, 1993.
- ^ Wattley, 2010, p. 462.
- ^ Stevens, August 6, 2005.
- ^ Bernhardt & Henry, 2006.
- ^ Oklahoma Supreme Court.
- ^ Holt, 2007.
- ^ Wattley, 2010, p. 450.
- ^ Cross, 1975, p. 134.
- ^ New York Times, October 21, 1995.
- ^ Fisher, 1996, p. 10.
- ^ Isgrigg, May 30, 2020.
References
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- OCLC 5163777441, 5163767829(article).
- Fisher, Ada Lois Sipuel; with Danny Goble; foreword by .
- Hall, Melvin C[urtis, JD] (2009). "Fisher, Ada Lois Sipuel (1924–1995)". Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture. Vol. 1 (of 2) "A–L". .
- Fisher, Bruce Travis (October 26, 2007). "Oklahoma Voices: Bruce Fisher" (oral history → audio with transcript → recorded at the OCLC 317313589.
- Isgrigg, Daniel Dale, PhD (born 1975) (May 30, 2020). "Bishop Travis B. Sipuel: A Pentecostal Survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre". danieldisgrigg.com. )
- TimesMachine).
- University of Oklahoma Law School in 1948." → main article: Sipuel v. Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma).)
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- Stevens, John Paul (August 6, 2005). "Address to the American Bar Association". Thurgood Marshall Awards Dinner Honoring Abner Mikva – Hyatt Regency Chicago. Washington, D.C.: Supreme Court of the United States (publisher). Retrieved August 9, 2013.
- Wattley, Cheryl Brown (born 1953) (2010). "Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher: How a 'Skinny Little Girl' Took on the University of Oklahoma and Helped Pave the Road to Brown v. Board of Education". Oklahoma Law Review. 62 (3). OCLC 653361448(article).
External links
- Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher Collection
- Uncrowned Queens - Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher
- Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher Collection (photographs) - Western History Collections, University of Oklahoma
- Artwork in the Oklahoma State Senate
- Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture - Fisher, Ada Lois Sipuel
- Voices of Oklahoma interview with Bruce Fisher about his mother Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher. First person interview conducted on July 2, 2015, with Bruce Fisher about his mother Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher.
- Voices of Oklahoma interview with Loretta Young Jackson. First person interview conducted on November 20, 2013, with Loretta Young Jackson, Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher was her mentor.