1924 - 1995
(1924–95), lawyer; professor, Langston University (1957–87); member, Board of Regents, University of Oklahoma (1992–95). A plaintiff in Sipuel v. Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma, an NAACP-backed case that went all the way to the Supreme Court in 1948. She sought and ultimately obtained admission to the University of Oklahoma Law School, which had been segregated. This decision opened the nation’s law schools and graduate schools to blacks and established legal precedents used in the Brown v. Board of Education case. Her married name was Fisher.