History in Our Everyday Lives

Notes

1. Mary Lui, “History in Our Everyday Lives: Collective Memory, Historical Writing, and Public History”, Seminar given at the Yale National Initiative, 2015
2. "Central High School (Tulsa, Oklahoma)” – Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_High_School_(Tulsa,_Oklahoma)
3. School Profiles The Official Website of Tulsa Public Schools. www.tulsaschools.org/4_About_District/_documents/pdf/_school_profiles/
4. Ibid
5. (US News and World Reports 2012)"Top Oklahoma High Schools Best High Schools” 2012. usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/oklahoma Booker T has not made the top 500 list nationwide in the last few years, but it is still recognized as a Top Oklahoma School
6. School profiles Tulsa Public Schools. There is not one public repository of statistics to compare each school directly with the others. However, individual school pages have summaries from which a complete picture may be put together. Creating a chart to show the comparisons will be one of the extended activities for APUSH students.
7. Scott A. Sandage, “A Marble House Divided: The Lincoln Memorial, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Politics of Memory, 1939 – 1963 The Journal of American History, Vol. 80, No. 1 (June 1993) pp. 135-167
8. Oklahoma Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights School Desegregation in Tulsa, Oklahoma 1977
9. Terrell Lester, “They Broke Colored Line at Central// Four Black Teen-Agers Entered in 1957”, Tulsa World, Febuary23, 1997
10. Stefanie Lee Decker, "Luper, Clara Shepard," Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture, okhistory.org. It is very significant that Clara Luper did a successful lunch counter sit-in almost 4 years before CORE leaders and students started their non-violent protests in Greensboro. As a high ranking member of Oklahoma’s NAACP, Clara would probably have shared her success with Martin Luther King, Thurgood Marshall and the later CORE leaders.
11. "Civil Rights | OHSkids!” Oklahoma Historical Society" 2013. okhistory.org/kids There is some possibility that this is a memory that has been aggrandized a bit over time, as there are no other sources for independent documentation
12. “Negro Alum Concerned about Central Trouble” Tulsa Tribune, Nov 8, 1969
13. “Amendments and Amplifications to Tulsa Public School’s Plan for Desegregation” submitted to the U.S. Commissioner of Education May 19, 1965
14. “Negro Enrollment Exceeds White at Burroughs School” Tulsa Tribune September 25, 1959
15. S. v. Board of Education Independent School District No 1, United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit 429 F.2d 1253 (1971)
16. ,Regional Housing Study; A Housing Strategy for Stability and Balance Indian Nations Council of Governments (1974) ,pp. 11-13.
17. John Storms, “For Outsiders at Central: Judge Vows Stiff Agitator Penalties” Tulsa Tribune, January 30, 1970
18. “Negro Alum Concerned” Tulsa Tribune.
19. “Faculty Student Council Planned at Central High School” Tulsa Tribune, Nov 8, 1969
20. “The Trouble at Central” Tulsa Tribune, January 30, 1970 Frontpage
21. Edwin Baswell and Connie Gould eds. Tom Tom Yearbook 1970, Central High School Tulsa
22. “Faculty Student Council” Tulsa Tribune.
23. Joe Gose, “With Faith of Investors Downtown Tulsa Reawakens” New York Times, November 11, 2014 http://nyti.ms/1uZex0D. We see the rapid growth of housing, restaurants and bars in the Brady and Blue Dome districts beginning to spread all directions except north, with only a few exceptions; there is still a natural boundary of the local interstate separating the downtown from the area around the new Central High School.
24. Stefanie Sposato ed. Tom Tom Yearbook, 1975, Central High School
25. Ibid
26. Harvey Silver et al., Tools for Thoughtful Assessment, Thoughtful Education Press, 2012. This has been my go-to book since the school hired Mr. Silver to come to present his “tool belt” to us. I also use the association triangle, memory box, and 4-2-1 strategies to name a few.