The Look

The LOOK

The first time I saw this look on their face,

Was when I applied to OU Law School, despite my race.  

I was denied, and it became a civil rights case

Now I've won, and I stand here with grace.  

I see the astonished white faces, just like the first time.  

Only now there's not just a look on their faces, but also a look on mine.

I did what they thought was impossible, crossing a racial line.

And all they get to do NOW is watch as I sign.

--- by A. J. Shabazz 2025 

My aunt --- forever phenomenal!

 

Never Will I Forget HELEN SIPUEL & Family

 

Sipuel -Scot-Irish Families

 

New Promptings - The Sipuel Legacy 2024

My Big Mama.... My mama, My daughters

 

Lewis Lineage

 Firsts visits of Memorial Weekend 2022

My Hometown Roots

 

Faith ~ Family ~ Finances

 2022.   In aloof year.   Lamentations says —-YET will I trust God

Chickasha homeplace … May I possess the title deed?

Auntie Sipuel Fisher vs OU Regents

Sipuel v. Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma et al, 1948

Title

Sipuel v. Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma et al, 1948

Description

In Sipuel v. Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma et al, the Supreme Court ruled that denying an African American student entry into Oklahoma's only public law school solely because of her race violated her Fourteenth Amendment rights.

Creator

United States Supreme Court

Source

Sipuel v. Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma et al, 332 U.S. 631 (1948), http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?q=sipuel&hl=en&as_sdt=2,34&case=8925146306023332418&scilh=0

Date

1948-01-12

Type

document

Identifier

ccl301

Text

332 U.S. 631 (1948)

SIPUEL v. BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA ET AL.

No. 369.

Supreme Court of United States.

Argued January 7-8, 1948.

Decided January 12, 1948.

CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF OKLAHOMA.

 632*632 Thurgood Marshall and Amos T. Hall argued the cause for petitioner. With them on the brief was Frank D. Reeves.

Fred Hansen, First Assistant Attorney General of Oklahoma, and Maurice H. Merrill argued the cause for respondents. With them on the brief was Mac Q. Williamson, Attorney General.

Briefs of amici curiae urging reversal were filed by Robert W. Kenny, O. John Rogge, and Andrew D. Weinberger for the National Lawyers Guild; and Arthur Garfield Haysand Osmond K. Fraenkel for the American Civil Liberties Union.

PER CURIAM.

On January 14, 1946, the petitioner, a Negro, concededly qualified to receive the professional legal education offered by the State, applied for admission to the School of Law of the University of Oklahoma, the only institution for legal education supported and maintained by the taxpayers of the State of Oklahoma. Petitioner's application for admission was denied, solely because of her color.

Petitioner then made application for a writ of mandamus in the District Court of Cleveland County, Oklahoma. The writ of mandamus was refused, and the Supreme Court of the State of Oklahoma affirmed the judgment of the District Court. 199 Okla. 36, 180 P.2d 135. We brought the case here for review.

The petitioner is entitled to secure legal education afforded by a state institution. To this time, it has been denied her although during the same period many 633*633 white applicants have been afforded legal education by the State. The State must provide it for her in conformity with the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and provide it as soon as it does for applicants of any other group. Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada, 305 U.S. 337 (1938).

The judgment of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma is reversed and the cause is remanded to that court for proceedings not inconsistent with this opinion. The mandate shall issue forthwith.

Reversed. 

Writing the Sipuel Story

TRAVIS BRUCE SIPUEL

 I get pressed and I get inspired!!!!   I must-I will write by 2022 story of my grand-parents

Family Story revealed

Precious Memories Linger along the Travis Sipuel Family

A Life Well Lived

Mama.    I am your first born daughter 

My thoughts are about……
Her love. Her service to her family
Her life .... and in full view of her dying days May 2019 —-

Losing my mother is like a culmination of daddy’s home going— Tana ‘ s sudden and almost unreal leaving this earth to judgement December 2018.... I cry and hurt and grieve ...  

My Sunshine . . . .

. . . . . . .She still shines.... deep within and throughout my entire being.

B.   July 25, 1926 ---  D. May 13, 2019

Losses amidst New Beginnings

The local newspaper had a series of meaningful quotes for this year!

Tana DeNise Huggins Bradford

My Sister

He Left His Mark Behind

It could be called a legacy..... but often its just a set of letters HUGGINS drawn into a concrete slab he poured in the back yard....  or a piece of plywood he hammered into the attic construction
project

Sleeping with my Elders.... Past Year

Time passes.... time is precious!

There is a TATE relative to research --- also My brothers wife's family

Anderson's as Owners of Enslaved Lucinda and Her Parents

I touched off sort of a firestorm....  just as my DNA cousin....(I met a 2nd girl)...  he travelled to OKC with his wife for a funeral!!


Then I watched Book TV where in Annette Gordon-Reed talked of her latest book on Sally Hemmings and Thomas Jefferson -- US President and their enslaved offspring @ Monticello, VA!

Suddenly -- my vision was expanded..... my vision has moved back two generations.  I'm now asking WHO --- AND WHERE ARE THE RECORDS OF JAMES A ANDERSON'S mom and dad... as well as their parents as plantation owners?? 

Really now... I might find that Lucinda had brothers and sisters.... and who and where was her mother serving as a concubine or nurse-maid/cook to the Senior Anderson owners!!!! 

Keys to the Past