Achieving Black woman in Oklahoma, past and present

Abstract

The Oklahoma Spirit is the Spirit of Freedom. It is the Spirit of Opportunity. That is what Ralph Ellison wrote in his essay "Going to the Territory." That is what African-Americans sought when they came to the Oklahoma Territory. Freedom and Opportunity would not be easily granted these African Americans, however. Too many Oklahomans agreed when Bill Murray the President of Oklahoma's Constitutional Convention, addressed that body with these words.