civil rights

Former Oklahoma corrections officer sentenced to federal prison for deliberately allowing white supremacist attack on Black detainees

Hannah France

A former Kay County Detention Center supervisory corrections officer will serve time in federal prison for violating the civil rights of three Black detainees.

Criminal Justice

Former Oklahoma corrections officer convicted for allowing white supremacist attack on Black detainees

Hannah France

A former Kay County Detention Center supervisory corrections officer faces up to 10 years in prison for violating the civil rights of three Black detainees.

Education

U.S. Department of Education Investigating Oklahoma For Civil Rights Violations Related To Masking Protocols

Robby Korth, SIO

The U.S. Department of Education announced Monday it’s investigating potential civil rights violations related to Oklahoma’s ban on mask mandates in schools.

Manager's Minute

KGOU Book Club Explores Tulsa Race Massacre

Dick Pryor

One-hundred years ago this June, violence devastated one of the most prosperous Black communities in the nation – Tulsa's Greenwood District. The area…

Clara Luper, (center), led the Oklahoma City civil rights sit-in movement

Education

60 Years Later: Two Women Remember A Teacher And Lesson That Fueled A Movement

Emily Wendler

As Joyce Henderson and Joyce Jackson walk across the wooden floor of the refurbished Calvary Baptist Church in downtown Oklahoma City, they’re flooded…

This March 1, 2006 file photo shows civil rights pioneer Clara Luper in Oklahoma City.

Program Preview

A Conversation With... Clara Luper

Jim Johnson

This week's Sunday Radio Matinee feature continues our commemoration of Black History Month as KGOU presents "A Conversation With... Clara Luper", an OETA…

Dion Diamond listens with his eyes closed to George Lincoln Rockwell, the founder of the American Nazi Party, at a "whites-only" lunch counter in Arlington, Va., in 1960.

Politics and Government

The Civil Rights Activist Whose Name You've Probably Never Heard

Isabel Dobrin

He participated in lunch counter sit-ins in the 1950s and '60s and was arrested on more than one occasion. Few may recognize the name Dion Diamond, but he tells StoryCorps he knows he left his mark.

President Lyndon Johnson, left, shakes civil rights leader the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s hand immediately after signing the Voting Rights Act, August 6, 1965.

From Selma To Shelby County, The Rise And Fall Of The Voting Rights Act

Brian Hardzinski

Next week marks the third anniversary of an incredibly consequential U.S. Supreme Court decision that struck down key provisions of landmark civil rights…

Politics and Government

Decorated Educator George Henderson On Past And Present Civil Rights Movements

Jim Johnson

The civil rights movement of the 1960s brought forward concerns about voting rights, segregation, and proportional representation. While the focus of…

U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson hands a pen to civil rights leader Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. during the the signing of the voting rights act as officials look on behind them, Washington, D.C., August 6, 1965. (Washington Bureau/Getty Images)

Politics and Government

Oral History Tells Story Of Voting Rights Act

To mark the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, we listen to some of the voices of the time, especially President Lyndon Johnson.