Ada Sipuel died in 1995 after successful careers in law and as a member of the University of Oklahoma’s Board of Regents. Her shoulders will guide our next Supreme Court Justice though that ...

Ada Lois Sipuel was born on Feb. 8, ... Board of Education, Oklahoma—like most southern states — made it a criminal offense for any white school to admit Black students and vice versa.

Even with the help of the U.S. Supreme Court, Ada Lois Sipuel, who is a Negro, couldn't get into the University of Oklahoma law school. The Court, which made up its mind in an almost unprecedented ...

A young Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher had visions of becoming a lawyer. ... The groundbreaking Brown vs. Board of Education case that would ban racial segregation in public schools across America was ...

In a front row of the U.S. Supreme Court last week sat Ada Lois Sipuel, a shy and slender Negro girl, watching the justices. One by one they leaned forward to ask questions; and usually their ...

Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. ... And then there’s Sipuel v. Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma in 1948. Ada Lois Sipuel, ...

This was 15 years before Brown vs. Board of Education. When, ... After World War II, Ada Lois Sipuel took on the mantle of America’s foremost school desegregation pioneer.

Ada Lois Sipuel was born on Feb. 8, 1924, in Chickasha, Oklahoma to parents Travis B. Sipuel and Martha Bell Smith. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 ...

May 18, 1896: In Plessy v. Ferguson, the U.S. Supreme Court sanctions separate but equal accommodations for people of different races. Jan. 12, 1948: In Sipuel v. Board of Regents of University of ...

Bruce Fisher talked about the role of his mother, Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher, in civil rights history. Ms. Sipuel attempted to enroll in the law school of the University of Oklahoma in 1946, helping ...