City Beginnings in Oklahoma Territory.

1940 ◽  
Vol 5 (5) ◽  
pp. 787
Author(s):  
Carl C. Taylor ◽  
John Alley ◽  
Margaret Jarman Hagood ◽  
R. W. Roskelley ◽  
Olaf F. Larson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Oklahoma Territory

The United States Sees Language

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosina Lozano
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New Mexico ◽  
The United States ◽  
Spanish Language ◽  
Senate Committee ◽  
Spanish Speaking ◽  
The Media ◽  
Oklahoma Territory

In 1902, U.S. Senator Albert Beveridge led four senators from the senate committee on the territories into New Mexico, Arizona, and Oklahoma territory. While New Mexico had operated in Spanish in its courts, schools, and politics for decades, Beveridge’s team exposed the rest of the nation to this Spanish language reality in their campaign to portray the territory as unfit for statehood. During the Senate subcommittee hearings, dozens of New Mexicans relayed their connection to both their United States citizenship and their use of the Spanish language. From census takers to court interpreters to principals, Spanish-speaking New Mexicans defended their use of Spanish. While the use of the Spanish language did not definitively delay statehood, the increased national scrutiny in the media of the language did result in a shift in territorial policies related to language that increasingly favored English in order to better conform to the country's expectations.

Oklahoma Populism: A History of the People's Party in the Oklahoma Territory

1989 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 79
Author(s):  
Gene Clanton ◽  
Worth Robert Miller
Keyword(s):  
People's Party ◽  
History Of ◽  
Oklahoma Territory

Red Earth: Race and Agriculture in Oklahoma Territory

2005 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 386
Author(s):  
Murray Wickett ◽  
Bonnie Lynn-Sherow
Keyword(s):  
Red Earth ◽  
Oklahoma Territory

scholarly journals Contingencies of Place and Time: The Significance of Wilson v. Marion and Oklahoma Territory in the History of School Segregation

2018 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 392-419
Author(s):  
Sara Doolittle
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
School System ◽  
School Segregation ◽  
Active Resistance ◽  
Racial Hierarchy ◽  
Economic Opportunities ◽  
Legal Challenge ◽  
History Of ◽  
Oklahoma Territory ◽  
John Wilson

Between 1889 and 1890, John Wilson and his family were among nearly three thousand African American settlers to enter Oklahoma Territory, where Wilson's two daughters first attended an integrated school. The Wilson family was undoubtedly drawn by the educational and economic opportunities that were present in the fluid space—opportunities that did not always exist elsewhere in the country. Yet the territorial legislature sought to narrow those opportunities, which it did by segregating the schools. Wilson and his family did not accept this limitation and fought back through both the courts and active resistance. This article examines that first legal challenge to the segregated school system: Territory ex rel. Wilson v. Marion et al. This case informs not only our understanding of the durability of racism in an actively contested western space but also the forms of African American resistance to the reactivation of racial hierarchy.

Manufacture and Commerce

2020 ◽  
pp. 315-316
Author(s):  
Danny M. Adkison ◽  
Lisa McNair Palmer
Keyword(s):  
Specific Gravity ◽  
Oklahoma Territory ◽  
Gravity Test

This chapter assesses Article XX of the Oklahoma constitution. This article concerns manufacture and commerce. Section 1 states that “nothing herein shall prevent the manufacture or sale of denaturized alcohol under such regulations as may be prescribed by law.” “Denaturized alcohol” is alcohol that has been made unfit for drinking without impairing its usefulness for other purposes. Section 2 provides that “until changed by the Legislature, the flash test provided for under the laws of Oklahoma Territory for all kerosene oil for illuminating purposes shall be 115 degrees Fahrenheit; and the specific gravity test for all such oil shall be 40 degrees Baume.”

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