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She joined the Arkansas Library Commission as an assistant to the executive secretary. She started working at the Tulsa Library in 1949 and became the director of the Tulsa City-County Library in 1963. [4] [5] Later she elected president of committee in 1945 and president of the ALA in 1975. She died in Tulsa on April 11, 1976. [6]
African-American newspaper founded by A. J. Smitherman; succeeded by the Tulsa Star [21] The Oklahoma (City) Times: Oklahoma City: 1889 1984 [22] Skiatook Sentinel: Skiatook: 1905 [23] Tulsa Business Journal: Tulsa: Formerly published by Community Publishing Tulsa County News: Tulsa: 2012 Published by Gary Percefull Tulsa Star: Tulsa: 1913 1921
Carlton D'Metrius Pearson (March 19, 1953 – November 19, 2023) was an American Christian minister and gospel music artist. [1] At one time, he was the pastor of the Higher Dimensions Evangelistic Center Incorporated, later named the Higher Dimensions Family Church, which was one of the largest churches in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Legacy.com is a United States–based website founded in 1998, [2] the world's largest commercial provider of online memorials. [3] The Web site hosts obituaries and memorials for more than 70 percent of all U.S. deaths. [4] Legacy.com hosts obituaries for more than three-quarters of the 100 largest newspapers in the U.S., by circulation. [5]
Haikey is the name of a Creek Indian family with a number of descendants still living in Tulsa and Broken Arrow today. The chapel, an Indian Methodist church, was built in 1913 with lumber hauled from Sapulpa by Ben B. Haikey, patriarch of the family whose son C. Ben Haikey had founded the church a few years earlier in a brush arbor. [1]
The fight for restitution continues in Tulsa 100 years after a white mob burned down Black Wall Street, murdering hundreds of Greenwood residents.
Charles Page (June 2, 1860 – December 27, 1926) was a businessman and important philanthropist in the early history of Tulsa, Oklahoma.After his father died when Page was an 11-year-old boy in Wisconsin, he left school early to try to help support his mother and siblings.
Fletcher was born May 10, 1914, in Comanche, Oklahoma, to Lucinda Ellis and John Wesley Ford. [a] [3] She was the second oldest of eight children. [1]One younger brother, Hughes Van Ellis, was a newborn at the time of the massacre; [1] [3] Ellis died on October 9, 2023, at the age of 102. [4]