Ada lois sipuel fisher biography sample
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In a young woman named Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher (–) was denied admission to the University of Oklahoma College of Law because she was African.
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She was born in Chickasha, OK.
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Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher was born in Chickasha, Oklahoma in 1924. She attended the segregated school of her time, Lincoln School.
Following graduation, she attended Langston University where she graduated with top honors in 1945.
REMEMBERING ADA: Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher was the first Black student at OU Law after a years-long legal battle.Ms. Sipuel married Warren Fisher and two children were born to this union, Bruce and Charlene. Later, she planned to attend law school out of state because Oklahoma did not have a law school for Afiican Americans. She never dreamed that her path would become aligned with the purposes of Roscoe Dunjee, Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP.
At the urging of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and Oklahoma's Black leaders, in 1946 she a
