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In 1953 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. married Coretta Scott in Marion, Al. To commemorate the life of Dr. King there will be a memorial to honor his national and international contributions to world peace through non-violent social change. Dr. King’s Memorial site is a four-acre plot on the north east corner of the Tidal Basin within the precinct of the Jefferson Memorial and north of the memorial to President Roosevelt. For more information on the memorial visit www.mlkmemorial.org.

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1941 President Roosevelt conferred with A. Philip Randolph and other leaders of the March on Washington movement and urged them to call off a scheduled demonstration. Randolph refused.

1948 Ada Lois Sipuel enrolled as the first Black woman in the University of Oklahoma’s Law School. After graduating from the segregated Langston University in 1945, Fisher volunteered to be the successful test case for admission to the University of Oklahoma Law School represented by NAACP attorney Thurgood Marshall and Oklahoma attorney Amos T. Hall. When denied admission on the basis of race, Fisher filed a suit asserting that she must be admitted to the OU Law School since there was no comparable facility for African American students. Losing in state courts, Marshall argued the case before the Supreme Court which reversed the lower courts in 1948.