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Join the Oklahoma Historical Society (OHS) on Thursday, February 10, at 6 p.m. at the Oklahoma History Center in Oklahoma City for a live podcast event. OHS Executive Director Trait Thompson and Dr. Bob Blackburn of the OHS’s A Very OK Podcast will interview Henrietta Hicks of Boley, Shirley Nero of Clearview, and Oklahoma Sen. Kevin Matthews of Tulsa about Oklahoma’s historic All- Black towns. This free event will be recorded in front of a live audience.
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THE WETUMKA POWERLIFTING TEAM COMPETED AGAINST STROTHERS THIS PAST FRIDAY AND WERE TEAM RUNNER UP.
Read moreA regular meeting of the Wetumka City Council was held on Monday, January 10, 2022. Council members present were Jason Lee, and Richard Roush. Norma Marshall, Mayor, and Garret Eller, City Attorney were also present. Donna Dyer and Sherry Smith- City Manager were absent.
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Read moreIn 1969, Andy Massey and his family moved to Holdenville when his father, Elmer Massey, was hired as the High School principal. Andy graduated from Holdenville High School in 1973. He later married his high school sweetheart, Lisa Treadwell, and they made their home in Tulsa, raising their son and daughter.
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Dick Glass, born to Creek and Negro Freedman parents in the Creek Nation, became the most noted outlaw of the Indian Territory to hang out in the Arbuckle Mountains during the 1880s. By 1880, when Glass and his gang wasn’t hiding out in the Seminole or Creek Nation, he often took refuge in a large black community on Wild Horse Creek near Ft. Arbuckle.
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To celebrate Black History Month, the Oklahoma History Center and the Smithsonian Channel are excited to present a screening of Seizing Justice: The Greensboro 4, followed by a panel discussion about the Oklahoma sit-in movement. This screening will be held on Saturday, February 5, from 1 to 3 p.m., and is included with paid admission to the Oklahoma History Center.
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State Superintendent of Public Instruction Joy Hofmeister has named 70 high school students from around Oklahoma to her 2022 Student Advisory Council. This is the seventh year the group has convened to assist Hofmeister and the Oklahoma State Department of Education with policy matters.
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