WHAT CHANGES CAME to OKLAHOMA in the 1950S?

Chapter 15

WHAT CHANGES CAME TO OKLAHOMA IN THE 1950s?

This chapter may carry over a small research project from the previous chapter.

Content Standard 5: The student will investigate how post-war social, political, and economic events continued to transform the state of Oklahoma during the 1950s through the present.

5.1 Cite specific textual and visual evidence to evaluate the progress of race relations and actions of civil disobedience in the state including the

a) Judicial interpretation of the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment, which ultimately resulted in the desegregation of public facilities, public schools and universities,

c) Lunch counter sit-ins organized by Clara Luper and the NAACP, and

d) Leadership of Governor Gary in the peaceful integration of the public common and higher education systems.

5.2 Analyze the impact of economic growth in various sectors including the

a) Impact of rural to urban migration,

d) Discovery of new fossil fuel resources, Tulsa’s designation as Oil Capital of the World, and the opening of the Anadarko Basin, and

e) Improvement of the state’s transportation infrastructures and the Kerr-McClellan Navigation System.

5.8. Explain the leadership of Oklahoma and its people in the field of aeronautics including the Federal Aviation Administration, NASA space program, and the influence of weather research on national disaster preparedness.

Day 1: Ask what “1950s” conjures in students’ minds. Are their ideas national or local? Read pages 320 through most of 323 (through highways).

Discuss questions 2, 3, and 7 from end of chapter.

Assign only definitions on workbook page 40 (section I).

Day 2: Read from bottom of page 323 to bottom of page 326.

Discuss questions 1, 4, 5, and 6 from end of chapter.

Assign workbook pages 40-41 (sections II-IV).

Day 3: Read from bottom of page 326 through page 328.

Discuss questions 8, 9, and 10 from end of chapter. Review in class for the chapter test, or assign review for homework.

Assign Writing Assignment on workbook page 41 (one-paragraph news reports on race relations, employment etc.) If you have combined the Chapter 14 assignment with this, clarify that the reports should go beyond the arts. Encourage students to use the Index to find information in other chapters.

Day 4: Administer chapter test. Then, using paper, digital media, or oral reports, students present a “TV news report” on contributions of Oklahomans in arts, science, business and civil rights. Each student’s report should be one paragraph or, if presented orally, less than one minute.

Day 5 if needed: Finish “TV news reports.”

Optional activities: Read Spotlight on Oklahoma City Thunder basketball team. Add events to the classroom timeline. Assign the Letter-Jumble about Dean McGee or the chart called The Governors Murray. Find descriptions of activities of First Ladies (Governors’ wives) and compare them.

Internet research

http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/sal0bio-1

http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/korea/large/index.htm

http://www.okhistory.org/enc/tinker.htm

http://www.answers.com/topic/hurley-patrick-jay

http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=A000073

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonas_Salk

Also at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ are Roy Turner,

Martin Luther King, Jr., and Henry Bellmon.

Related readings

Edward F Dolan, America in the Korean War (Brookfield, Conn.: Millbrook, 1998)

T. R Fehrenbach, This Kind of War: The Classic Korean War History (Washington: Brassey’s, 1994)

Encyclopedia of Oklahoma (Somerset Publishers, Inc., 1999)

Betty Crow, A History of the Oklahoma Governor's Mansion (Oklahoma City: Oklahoma Heritage Association, 2004.

Leroy Fischer, Oklahoma's Governors, 1955-1979: Growth and Reform (Oklahoma City: Oklahoma Historical Society, 1985)

Bellmon Henry, The Life and Times of Henry Bellmon (Tulsa, Oklahoma: Council Oaks Books, 1992)

*** You have completed 15 of 18 chapters. ***

LETTER-JUMBLE

DEAN A. McGEE

In the following letter-jumble are 19 items relating to the life and career of Dean A. McGee. Find them and circle them in the puzzle, and then write them in the spaces provided below. Items may run horizontally (left to right), vertically (top to bottom), or diagonally (top left to bottom right).

R O B E R T S K E R R A T N U C L E A R F U E L S

E A E I Y A S D F G J K L Z X I O F F S H O R E X

T S W P R E S B Y T E R I A N M F O R T U L O M B

I I K L U C R E T I M O P R E M S B Y J M A B X U

N L G U E O L E O G Y Q L U R B A N L E A G U E S

A K B T U S I N S Y M P H O N Y C R E S N U C L I

P W F O R T U N E E P A W B G R X I Z V I J P Q N

O O K N L A H O R T A D R I L I P A M X T I O U E

X O D I R E C T O R X R Z A P A S M L A A X P A S

T D R U R A N I U M Y W C R O U W T T I R F I L S

Z O J M C R E S C E N T Y H I E C R E S I R N T M

C H A M B E R O F C O M M E R C E N U C A R O B A

O K L A H O M A A R T S C O U N C I L Z N X Y N N

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THE GOVERNORS MURRAY

In this exercise, some items are listed about William H. Murray and his son Johnston Murray. They had very different personalities and served in very different times.

In the exercise below, several traits and facts are given about each of the two governors. Wherever a trait or fact is given about one of them, fill in the corresponding or contrasting information about the other on the blank lines provided. (1) is filled in as an example.

WILLIAM H. “ALFALFA BILL” MURRAY JOHNSTON MURRAY

(1) took office in Jan., 1931 took office in Jan., 1951

(2) professional politician

(3) first Oklahoma governor of Indian

descent

(4) the “common man”

(5) quick-tempered

(6) attorney

(7) sent to Latin America by the State

Department

(8) used National Guard only once

(9) wife stayed in background