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Approved on December 18, 1907, Senate Bill One, also known as the coach law and to most as the state’s first Jim Crow law, easily sailed through Oklahoma’s first legislature. The bill provided that “every railway company, urban or suburban car company, streetcar or interurban car or railway company . . . shall provide separate coaches or compartments as hereinafter provided for the accommodation of the white and negro races, which separate coaches or cars shall be equal in all points of comfort and convenience.” Another section of the legislation similarly stated that each railroad depot must have separate, adequately signed waiting rooms for each race. The penalty for disobeying ranged from one hundred to one thousand dollars for any company failing to provide separate facilities and from five to twenty-five dollars for any individual who, after being warned by the conductor, occupied any coach or compartment (including waiting rooms) not designated for his/her race. The bill authorized railroad officials to refuse service or eject violators. All fines were to go to the common school fund.
Read morePlease, Lord bring my baby girl back to me I'm begging whoever picked her up, please, she’s all I have. I can't live without her. Will all my friends please help me find her.
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Read moreThe theme for this year’s VBS at Wetumka First United Methodist Church is “Digging for Donuts” which incorporates the lesson theme “Destination Dig” along with the added learning from The Donut Man.
Read moreThe Woody Williamson Memorial Concert held recently was a great success! The Williamsons and their specials guests, The Erwins provided some great gospel music from the good old days to brand new gospel recordings. Pictured at the concert are (left to right) Donnie Williamson, Tennie Williamson Polson, Lisa Williamson, Sadie Williamson, Olivia Williamson, Bo Chesser and Darin Hebert.
Read moreThree simple words in the title of this week’s article conjure up a wide array of thoughts, depending on the context. To the man who is always seeking something better, never satisfied with where he might be in life, he assumes that the grass is always greener on “the other side”. The socialites who hobnob with the rich and famous look down their noses on those who might live “on the other side” of the tracks. Wars have been fought with those who are “on the other side” of whatever it is they were fighting about. A hunter might find himself fortunate to know that the grizzly bear or much smaller ‘polecat’ is “on the other side” of the valley or river.
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