Fisher, Ada Lois Sipuel, 1924-1995

found: A matter of Black and white, 1996:CIP title page (Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher) info sheet (b. Ada Lois Sipuel in 1924 at Chickasha, Okla.; lawyer and educator)

found: English language Wikipedia website, December 1, 2014(Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher (February 8, 1924-October 18, 1995) was a key figure in the Civil Rights movement in Oklahoma; she applied for admission into the University of Oklahoma College of Law in order to challenge the state's segregation laws and to become a lawyer; she denied because of her race; two years later, in 1948, the United States Supreme Court ruled in Sipuel v. Board of Regents of University of Oklahoma that the state of Oklahoma must provide instruction for blacks equal to that of whites)

found: African American National Biography, accessed via The Oxford African American Studies Center online database, July 27, 2014: (Fisher, Ada Lois Sipuel; Ada Lois Sipuel; civil rights activist, educator, lawyer, litigant; born 08 February 1924 in Chickasha, Oklahoma, United States; graduated from to Oklahoma State College for Negroes (later Langston University) in 1945; married Warren W. Fisher in 1944; graduated from University of Oklahoma, School of Law (1951); joined the faculty at Langston University (1957); MA in History, University of Oklahoma (1968); served on the Advisory Committee on Civil Rights for the Oklahoma Regents for Higher Education working with the Urban League, the NAACP, and the American Civil Liberties Union; died 18 October 1995 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States)

found: American National Biography Online, accessed December 23, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Fisher, Ada Lois Sipuel; civil rights activist, educator, lawyer, litigant; born 08 February 1924 in Chickasha, Oklahoma, United States; graduated Oklahoma State College for Negroes (1945); she won a lawsuit known as Sipuel v. Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma before the Suprem Court and became the the first African-American woman to attend a previously all-white law school in the South.(1951); earned a master's degree in history at the University of Oklahoma (1968); served as assistant vice president for academic affairs (1987-1988); director of the Urban Center at Langston University; served on the Advisory Committee on Civil Rights for the Oklahoma Regents for Higher Education (1974-1975); was appointed to the Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma; died 18 October 1995 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States)