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title	:	A Matter of Black and White : The Autobiography of Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher
author	:	Fisher, Ada Lois Sipuel.; Goble, Danney
publisher	:	University of Oklahoma Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0806128194
print isbn13	:	9780806128191
ebook isbn13	:	9780585156040
language	:	English
subject	Fisher, Ada Lois Sipuel,--1924- , African Americans--Oklahoma--Biography, Civil rights workers--Oklahoma--Biography, Oklahoma--Race relations, African Americans--Civil rights--Oklahoma.
publication date	:	1996
lcc	:	E185.97.F46A3 1996eb
ddc	:	976.6/00496073/0092
subject	:	Fisher, Ada Lois Sipuel,--1924- , African Americans--Oklahoma--Biography, Civil rights workers--Oklahoma--Biography, Oklahoma--Race relations, African Americans--Civil rights--Oklahoma.

Page iii A Matter of Black and White The Autobiography of Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher By Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher with Danney Goble FOREWORD BY Robert Henry UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA PRESS : NORMAN AND LONDON

Page iv Text design by Carl Brune. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Fisher, Ada Lois Sipuel, 1924 A matter of black and white: the autobiography of Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher / by Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher with Danney Goble; foreword by Robert Henry. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 0-8061-2819-4 (alk. paper) 1. Fisher, Ada Lois Sipuel, 1924- . 2. Afro-Americans OklahomaBiography. 3. Civil rights workersOklahoma Biography. 4. OklahomaRace relations. 5. Afro-Americans Civil rightsOklahoma. I. Goble, Danney, 1946- . II. Title. E185.97.F46A3 1996 976.6'00496073'0092-dc20 [B] 95-38775 CIP The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources, Inc. Copyright 1996 by the University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Publishing Division of the University. All rights reserved. Manufactured in the U.S.A. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Page v Dedicated to the memory of my beloved husband, Warren W. Fisher

Page vii Contents List of Illustrations ix Foreword, by Robert Henry xi Preface xvii Acknowledgments xix Genesis: My Parents 3 Growing Up in Grady's New South 13 Separate but Equal 43 If It Please the Court... 87 ... and Others Similarly Situated 119 The Stone 155 Chronology 189 List of Contributors 195 Index 197

Page ix Illustrations Ada Lois's father, Bishop Travis B. Sipuel 7 Ada Lois's mother, Martha Bell Smith Sipuel 9 Ada Lois with neighborhood child and churchwomen 17 Flossie Thompson's piano students 23 Lincoln High School graduation, 1941 56 The Lincoln School band, ca. 1939 57 Ada Lois's senior class picture, 1941 60 Warren W. Fisher as a young soldier 67 The Sipuel family, ca. 1943 77 Dr. George Lynn Cross, president of the University of Oklahoma, ca. 1946 82 Dr. W. A. J. Bullock, Ada Lois, and Roscoe Dunjee at the time of the first attempt to enroll at the University of Oklahoma

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