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Jan 31, 2023 Biographies

Cynthia Anderson was born in Chickasha, Oklahoma, and attended Chickasha public schools first through tenth grades. She is the daughter of the late Harold W. Jackson and Loretta Y. Blunt Jackson. She ...

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Mildred Hemphill Burkhalter

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Feb 9, 2022 Biographies

Mildred Hemphill Burkhalter was born in Pierce, Oklahoma. At age nine her family moved to Rentiesville, Oklahoma. Mildred is the youngest of six children. Her loving parents were Alton and Pauline (Gr...

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Anthony L. Watson Sr.

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Mar 30, 2021 Biographies

Anthony L. (Tony) Watson Sr., rose from the segregated school system of Oklahoma City to compete in the Olympics and later become the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Emblem Health, Inc. Born F...

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Dr. Olivia J. Hooker

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Sep 13, 2020 Biographies

Olivia Hooker was born in Muskogee, Oklahoma in 1915. She moved with her family to Tulsa, Oklahoma a few years later. Her parents had moved to Oklahoma from Holmes County, Mississippi. Her father, Sam...

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Eddie Faye Gates

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Sep 13, 2020 Biographies

Ms. Eddie Faye Gates is an oral historian and author. She was born and raised in Oklahoma and moved throughout the United States and Europe with her family. She attended Tuskegee Institute for three y...

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Irving Dean Norwood

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Nov 27, 2019 Biographies

Irving Dean Norwood was born in Cresent, Logan County, Oklahoma on March 30, 1935, the son of Benjamin Kidd Norwood and Lovenia Fields Norwood. His father was a sharecropper and his mother a homemaker...

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Velma Peigne Holt

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Jan 26, 2019 Biographies

It has been a wonder journey in the life of Velma Marie Peigne Stanford Holt. Born in Okmulgee, Oklahoma, Velma left there as a young bride and moved to Akron, Ohio. There she and her first husband, N...

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Estella Lett Dixon

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Feb 12, 2018 Biographies

Mrs. Dixon was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Lett. J. Benjamin Lett and Minerva Webber were married in Muskogee, Oklahoma Territory on June 2, 1897. The couple subsequently moved to Nowata, Oklah...

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Betty Jean Hopkins Mason

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Feb 20, 2017 Biographies

Dr. Betty G. Hopkins Mason graduated from Booker T. Washington High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma, May, 1945. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Bishop College in Marshall, Texas; a Masters in Supe...

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Keba Lyons

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Jan 11, 2017 Biographies

Keba M. Lyons was born November 30, 1975 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Like many generations of her female ancestors, Keba's life is one of service to family and community. One might ask how a life so s...

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Anita Golden Arnold

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Dec 1, 2013 Biographies

Anita Golden Arnold was born in Tecumseh, Oklahoma and grew up in Oklahoma City. She graduated from Douglass High School in Oklahoma City in 1957. She received an Associate's Degree in Computer Scienc...

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Otis Clark

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Mar 19, 2013 Biographies

At the time of his death, at the age of 109, Otis Clark was the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot. He was just 18 years old when the Riot occurred. A minister for more than 85 years, ...

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