Entering Indian Territory

Historical marker location:

Quapaw, Oklahoma

( Marker is on State Highway 66, 0.1 miles south of Kansas State Line, on the left when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 1995

This area was granted to the Quapaw tribe in 1833. Nearby, members of twenty other tribes received lands from the federal government.

Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher was the first Black woman to attend law school in Oklahoma. In 1946, she applied to the University of Oklahoma College of Law but was denied admission because of her race. She sued the university, and her case eventually went to the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled in her favor. She went on to graduate from law school in 1951 and became a prominent civil rights attorney.