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Read moreApproved on December 18, 1907, Senate Bill One, also known as the coach law and to most as the state’s first Jim Crow law, easily sailed through Oklahoma’s first legislature. The bill provided that “every railway company, urban or suburban car company, streetcar or interurban car or railway company . . . shall provide separate coaches or compartments as hereinafter provided for the accommodation of the white and negro races, which separate coaches or cars shall be equal in all points of comfort and convenience.” Another section of the legislation similarly stated that each railroad depot must have separate, adequately signed waiting rooms for each race. The penalty for disobeying ranged from one hundred to one thousand dollars for any company failing to provide separate facilities and from five to twenty-five dollars for any individual who, after being warned by the conductor, occupied any coach or compartment (including waiting rooms) not designated for his/her race. The bill authorized railroad officials to refuse service or eject violators. All fines were to go to the common school fund.
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Last week, Clifford Normore and his family made a stop over in Clearview to visit with family and friends. Clifford, his wife Ernestine, daughters Terry and Brenda, and granddaughter and Kali visited with adopted sisters Shirley and Marilyn (Ballard) and their husbands and Peter Bush. Clifford wanted his family to see sites in Clearview where he grew up and attended grade school at Galilee and Clearview High School. His memories were for the history books, such good stories of him as an athletic.
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Kathy and Mike Grove
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The theme for this year’s VBS at Wetumka First United Methodist Church is “Digging for Donuts” which incorporates the lesson theme “Destination Dig” along with the added learning from The Donut Man.
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The Woody Williamson Memorial Concert held recently was a great success! The Williamsons and their specials guests, The Erwins provided some great gospel music from the good old days to brand new gospel recordings. Pictured at the concert are (left to right) Donnie Williamson, Tennie Williamson Polson, Lisa Williamson, Sadie Williamson, Olivia Williamson, Bo Chesser and Darin Hebert.
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Plains Indians named the African American cavalry stationed on the Great Plains after the Civil War the “Buffalo Soldiers,” which eventually referred to both the black cavalry and infantry in the West. Following the Civil War, in 1866 Congress authorized six regiments of the regular U.S. Army to be staffed by blacks two cavalry and four infantry. By 1869, in an overall troop reduction, Congress cut the number of black infantry units to two, and potential black soldiers enlisted in either the Ninth or Tenth Cavalry or the Twenty-fourth or Twenty-fifth Infantry. During the latter nineteenth century these black regiments represented 10 percent of the army’s effective strength, and in many western commands black soldiers made up more than one-half the available military force. Although their contributions were significant, their varied experiences were always tempered because they were black soldiers in “white” and “red” territory. The Buffalo Soldiers played a vital role in Oklahoma and Indian Territory as well as in other regions of the West. Both the Ninth and the Tenth cavalries and the Twenty-fourth Infantry served in Indian Territory during the latter nineteenth century.
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