Historical Highlight (February 2022)

This month in history: In February 1929, a bill to build vocational high schools (or technical skills school) for black communities in Oklahoma was proposed. “A bill which will be offered by representatives of this county, [t]he plans for the school have been drawn up by Henry Lowrance, [town] taxpayer and friend of schools, who lives in school district 8, south of Sapulpa, and has received the endorsement of E.E. Patton, county superintendent of schools and other prominent Sapulpas.”
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The bill is proposed for counties having a minority population of 500 or more “to be maintained out of the general separate school funds.” It was proposed to build the facility at Booker T. Washington School.