Stephen Long and American Frontier Exploration

NICHOLS, Roger L.; HALLEY, Patrick L.

ISBN 10: 0806127244 / ISBN 13: 9780806127248

Published by University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1995

About this Item

A softcover reprint edition detailing the explorations in the American West led by U.S. Army Major Stephen H. Long in the years following the War of 1812. Long's explorations included the central & southern Plains, the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains, and the Great Lakes. The authors have emphasized the scientific aspects of these expeditions. With six illustrations and three maps. --- In wraps with color Samuel Seymour painting to front cover. --- An about Near Fine copy: bright and newish, but with a hint of sunning to spine.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; (4), 276 pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Stephen Long and American Frontier Exploration
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press, Norman
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0806127244
• ISBN 13: 9780806127248
• Binding: Softcover
• Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • >>Travel / Exploration / Adventure
  • >>American History & Politics

About this title

Synopsis

In 1946 a young woman named Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher (1924–1995) was denied admission to the University of Oklahoma College of Law because she was African American. The OU law school was an all-white institution in a town where African Americans could work and shop as long as they got out before sundown. But if segregation was entrenched in Norman, so was the determination of black Oklahomans who had survived slavery to stake a claim in the territory. This was the tradition that Ada Lois Sipuel sprang from, a tradition and determination that would sustain her through the slow, tortuous path of litigation to gaining admission to law school. A Step toward Brown v. Board of Education—the first book to tell Fisher’s full story—is at once an inspiring biography and a remarkable chapter in the history of race and civil rights in America. Cheryl Elizabeth Brown Wattley gives us a richly textured picture of the black-and-white world from which Ada Lois Sipuel and her family emerged. Against this Oklahoma background Wattley shows Sipuel (who married Warren Fisher a year before she filed her suit) struggling against a segregated educational system. Her legal battle is situated within the history of civil rights litigation and race-related jurisprudence in the state of Oklahoma and in the nation. Hers was a test case organized by the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) to go all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court and, as precedent, strike another blow against “separate but equal” public education. Fisher served as both a litigant, with Thurgood Marshall for counsel, and, later, a litigator; both a plaintiff and an advocate for the NAACP; and both a student and, ultimately, a teacher of the very history she had helped to write. In telling Fisher’s story, Wattley also reveals a time and a place undergoing a profound transformation spurred by one courageous woman taking a bold step forward.

About the Author

Roger L. Nichols is Professor Emeritus of History and Affiliate Professor of Indian Studies at the University of Arizona. He is the author of American Indians in U.S. History and editor of The American Indian: Past and Present, Sixth Edition.