On this day in 1949, Ada Sipuel Fisher became the first Black woman to attend an all-white law school in the South.
On this day in 1949 by Jerry Mitchell, Mississippi Today June 18, 2024 JUNE 18, 1949 Ada Sipuel Fisher, right, is represented by attorneys Amos T. Hall, left, and Thurgood Marshall, center. Ada Sipuel Fisher became the first Black woman to attend an all-white law school in the South when she entered the University of Oklahoma Law School. Her parents had survived the 1921 Tulsa massacre, and her family moved to Chickasha, where she was born and grew up.
Two years later, the Supreme Court ruled in their favor, ending segregation for Black students in graduate programs. In 1952, Fisher graduated and began practicing law. In 1992, Oklahoma Gov. David Walters appointed her to the University of Oklahoma’s Board of Regents. She vowed to bring enlightenment to the position, noting that she had “suffered severely from bigotry and racial discrimination as a student.
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