Appendix A
Figure 1: Photos of the first black students to enter Central High.
Source: Tom Tom Yearbook, 1958: Juan Dola Washington, Charlie Jones, Peaches Littlejohn and Louie Moore.
Figure 2: Chart showing increase and decrease in student populations for the Tulsa County area schools.
Figure 3: Appeal to The Great Spirit Statue and School Mural
The statue seems small in size when you are used to seeing all the copies and replicas that are shown around the state in parks, museums, and other public spaces. The mural was added to the wall in 1999. This was seven years after Central High School became the Fine and Performing Arts Magnet for TPS. There are several other murals and public art works in the school that reflect our mission: stained glass replicas of the “Appeal” work, large murals of student life, and even a giant penguin that is decorated with Central memorabilia.
Figure 4: Walk of Fame at Central High School
The plaque on the left says: “The objective of the CHS “Walk of Fame” is to honor graduates with bronze plaques displaying their class numerals and the legacy of their decade at Central High School. It is the hope and dream of the Central High School alumni that this “Walk of Fame” motivates present and future classes to identify with the long line of graduates who are rooting them on to meaningful lives.” There are 11 more sets of these by year. There are also 4 extra sets of plaques that detail the history of the buildings from Indian comprehensive school to the current one.
Figure 5: Hall of Fame Central High School
In the official school foyer, we have about 60 plaques that represent “Hall of Fame” chosen by the Central Alumni Foundation. All but one of the honorees are white and from Old Central. In the top right corner of this photo is the only person of color, and the only person to be honored from a class that graduated from the New Central location. Actually, there is a huge gap in alumni in the honorees’ graduation years as there aren’t any between 1964 and 1983. The 2015 honorees are also from the early sixties. Even if the alumni committee is 40 to 50 years behind in the honorees, they could include all the students mentioned in this unit; all of them have had very successful, community service or philanthropic lives.
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