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07/04/2022

We are closed today. Stay safe and we will be here to help you tomorrow if you celebrate too much.

05/08/2022

Happy Mother’s Day!

03/17/2022

checklist: 1: Coordinate your . 2: another day, plan a sober ride. Is Drunk Driving.

02/18/2022

Oklahoma Fact Friday: Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher was born on February 8, 1924, in Chickasha. She graduated from Lincoln High School in 1941 as the Valedictorian. In May of 1945, she graduated Langston with honors. On January 14, 1946, she applied for admission to the University of Oklahoma College of Law. After reviewing Fisher's credentials, the university's president, Dr. George Lynn Cross, advised her that there was no academic reason to reject her application for admission, but that Oklahoma statutes prohibited whites and blacks from attending classes together.

After a three-year battle, Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher’s case was heard before the U.S. Supreme Court. Her lawyer would be future Justice Thurgood Marshall. The Justices of the Court ruled unanimously that the laws of Oklahoma violated the constitution and Oklahoma had to provide legal instruction that was equal for whites and minorities. Oklahoma’s response to this decision was to create a law school, just for Mrs. Fisher in the basement of the Capitol. She elected to sue again for admission to OU Law school. Finally, on June 18, 1949, Sipuel was admitted to OU Law.

While at OU, the law school designated a section marked for “colored” and roped it off separate from the rest of the class. Despite this, she was welcomed by her faculty and classmates, who would share notes with her and studied with her. She was also required to attend separate dining areas and restrooms and sit in a segregated section at football games. These restrictions remained at OU until 1950, when a different case ordered that those injustices be stopped.

She graduated with a law degree in 1951. She opened a practice for a short time in Chickasha in 1952, before getting into education. The photo is of her signing the roll of Oklahoma Attorneys.

In 1992, Governor Walters appointed Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher to serve on the board of regents for OU. Her career had come full circle from the school rejecting her to serving on the board that controlled how the school operated. She passed away in 1995 after a battle with cancer. There is now a garden at OU dedicated to her memory and she is a member of the Oklahoma Hall of Fame.

02/11/2022

Oklahoma Fact Friday: Born on April 13, 1872, Wyatt Hardy Slaughter, “W.H.” Slaughter attended Walden University and in 1892 received his medical degree from Meharry Medical College. In 1903, Dr. Slaughter would relocate to Oklahoma City. He is believed to be the first ever African American Doctor in Oklahoma.

Dr. Slaughter would build an office for his practice in the Deep Deuce District, just north of now Bricktown. He did this because, at the time, Oklahoma City was fully segregated, and this was a neighborhood that allowed African Americans to live. His practice was the only one in Oklahoma City that allowed African Americans to receive any medical assistance. This would be the first of many buildings built and developed by Dr. Slaughter in the Deep Deuce, as he built many buildings to house the community, including a music hall known as the Slaughter Hall and a pharmacy.

Dr. Slaughter would partner with African American Dr. W.L. Haywood, and the two of them would create the first hospital in Oklahoma to accept minorities for treatment. At the time, due to Jim Crowe laws, even the hospitals were ‘whites only.’ This further expanded Dr. Slaughter’s influence in the Deep Deuce. Dr. Slaughter played a key role in founding the African American Oklahoma Medical, Dental, and Pharmaceutical Association.

He retired from medicine in 1949, devoting the rest of his life to philanthropic causes. Helping to create a YMCA that allowed African Americans. He also helped finance the building of a segregated high school. He passed away on August 2, 1952.

Many of Dr. Slaughter’s buildings have been lost of progress and re-development, but his mansion is preserved as a landmark. You can find the Slaughter House at 3101 NE 50th Street in Oklahoma City.

02/06/2022

A benefit dinner and auction to honor a beloved officer and a deserving family.

02/04/2022

Oklahoma Fact Friday: As you might imagine Oklahoma isn’t known for our winter Olympians unlike the summer games. However, when you watch the Olympics this week and next, there is an Oklahoman of merit: Mariah Bell is going for figure skating gold.

She was born in Tulsa in 1996. At the age of 25, she is one of the oldest figure skaters in history. She will be the oldest female figure skater in 94 years. Previously, her attempts to make the Olympic team came up short, but instead of retiring, she worked harder, learned, and improved, earning her spot.

In 2020, Mariah won the silver in the US Nationals, but this year in 2020, she took home gold as the best in the USA and finally won the chance to represent the USA in the Olympics.

02/01/2022

Veteran's Come First on the First: Roscoe Conklin "Rocks" Cartwright was born on May 27, 1919 in Kansas, but he grew up and attended schools in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

After graduating from Booker T Washington High, Roscoe attempted to attend the Kansas teacher's college, but he was unable to pay for his education given the economic hardships and lack of jobs during the Great Depression. So, he returned to Tulsa, got a job at the Bubble-Up Bottle Company and took some classes at Tulsa University.

In 1941, Roscoe was drafted into the U.S. Army as an enlisted man. He was sent to the segregated Field Artillery Regiment in Fort Sill, all the officers were white, except for the chaplain, but Cartwright and the other Soldiers were Africa-Americans. In November of 1942, Cartwright would complete Officer Candidate school and was commissioned as a 2nd Lt, for the remainder of the WW2.

Following the War, Lt. Cartwright, had intended to enter civilian life. His unit was stationed to Fort Smith, Arkansas. Given the lack of jobs and just having met his wife, he elected to stay in the Army.

He was transferred into the regular army, a move unheard of for an African American officer. He was promoted to Captain and lead his men for a deployment in Korea. In 1954, he was promoted to Major and remained Korea or Japan, before being deployed to Vietnam until 1971.

Roscoe 'Rocks" Cartwright would be the second U.S. Army African American promoted to the rank of general. He would retire from the Army in 1974.

During his career, he received 2 Legions of Merit, 3 Bronze Stars, Meritorious Service Medal, 3 Air Medals, and 3 Army Commendation Medals.

Following retirement, Rocks helped form an organization for minority officers within the armed forces. The organization is now named ROCKs in honor of him.

He and his wife would board a commercial flight after visiting family for the holiday. That flight, TWA Flight 514 would crash 25 miles NW of Dulles Airport, due to bad weather. All the lives onboard were lost.

01/21/2022

Oklahoma Fact Friday: Edgar Sullins Vaught was born on January 7, 1873, in Virginia. Edgar got his degree from Carson and Newman College in Jefferson City, Tennessee and did some post-graduate study at Emory and Henry College. He would serve as a public-school teacher in Tennessee.

In 1902, Edgar Vaught would relocate to Oklahoma City and become a high school principal before becoming the Superintendent of Schools for Oklahoma City schools until 1906. He would receive his bar license while working for Oklahoma City Schools but would leave to join several law practices. Vaught was a prolific trial lawyer, in one year he tried over 63 cases and won 57 of them. He gained notoriety representing the Ford Motor Company for 20 years and never losing a case for them.

Edgar Vaught was a member of the commission that arranged the Oklahoma exhibit at the World’s Fair in St. Louis in 1903 and 1904.

In 1928, President Coolidge would appoint Vaught, a Republican, to be the District Judge for the Western District of Oklahoma Federal Court. Vaught had a reputation as being a durable and conservative Judge. His most famous trial was George “Machine Gun” Kelly’s trial for kidnapping a prominent oilman, Charles Urhsel. Kelly was sentenced to DOC for life.

Edgar Vaught served as a trustee for Oklahoma City University and retired from the bench in 1956. He passed away in 1959.

01/17/2022

Dr. King fought every day for expanding Justice. We can all honor him properly by doing the same.

01/14/2022

Oklahoma Fact Friday: Bird Segle McGuire was born on October 13, 1865, in Illinois. His family would relocate to Missouri where he attended common schools and then to Kansas, where Bird became a member of the Kansas Bar Association.

In 1894, Bird McGuire moved to Pawnee County in Oklahoma Territory, where he opened a law practice. President McKinley would appoint him to be the U.S. Attorney for Oklahoma Territory in 1897, and he served in that capacity for 5 years.

In 1902, Bird McGuire was elected to serve as the Territorial Representative for Congress from Oklahoma Territory. Although, not having a vote in Congress, he would introduce two bills. First a bill to create the land grant that became Oklahoma State University (then Oklahoma A&M) and the bill for statehood of Oklahoma. It was McGuire that ably argued for a unified Oklahoma state and not a 2 state addition to the Union, effectively killing the idea of a Sequoyah state.

Upon statehood in 1907, McGuire was seen as a Republican leader in Oklahoma and was the only Republican to win election to Congress, representing the First District. He began to speak for social and political reforms. He was in favor of the women’s suffrage movement, the direct election of U.S. Senators, an 8-hour workday, and having to disclose campaign contributions.

McGuire would serve 6 consecutive terms in Congress, in later years he would fight against business regulations like Anti-trust legislation and banking changes like the Federal Reserve system we still use today, and the Federal Trade Commission. He would retire from Congress in 1915 and resume a law practice in Tulsa. He passed away in Tulsa on November 9, 1930.

01/01/2022

Veteran’s Come First on the First: Manuel Perez Jr. was born on March 3, 1923, in Oklahoma City. Manuel is a Mexican American hero. As a young boy, his father relocated to Chicago and that is where Manuel received most of his education. Mr. Perez Jr. was working at a Best Foods when WWII began. He immediately volunteered to serve the United States in the Army. After basic training, he reported to paratrooper school.

When Japanese forces invaded the Philippines, Manuel Perez Jr, was one of the Army paratroopers of the 511 Parachute Infantry of the 11th Airborne sent to liberate the islands. His mission on February 13, 1945, was to takeback Fort William McKinley. The fort had been fortified by the enemy. There were cement armored pillboxes with 50 caliber machine guns defending the fort. Realizing the pillboxes were preventing their advance, Manuel Perez Jr, charged the pillboxes on his own, blasting them with gr***des. His actions led to the 18 enemy deaths and allowed the unit to secure the fort. He would be awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions.

His Medal of Honor citation described that day as follows: “Private First Class Perez was lead scout for Company A, which had destroyed 11 of 12 pillboxes in a strongly fortified sector defending the approach to enemy-held Fort William McKinley on Luzon, Philippine Islands. In the reduction of these pillboxes, he killed five Japanese in the open and blasted others in pillboxes with gr***des. Realizing the urgent need for taking the last emplacement, which contained two twin-mount .50-caliber dual-purpose machineguns, he took a circuitous route to within 20 yards of the position, killing four of the enemy in his advance. He threw a gr***de into the pillbox, and, as the crew started withdrawing through a tunnel just to the rear of the emplacement, shot and killed four before exhausting his clip. He had reloaded and killed four more when an escaping Japanese threw his rifle with fixed bayonet at him. In warding off this thrust, his own rifle was knocked to the ground. Seizing the Japanese rifle, he continued firing, killing two more of the enemy. He rushed the remaining Japanese, killed three of them with the butt of the rifle and entered the pillbox, where he bayoneted the one surviving hostile soldier. Single-handedly, he killed 18 of the enemy in neutralizing the position that had held up the advance of his entire company. Through his courageous determination and heroic disregard of grave danger, Private First Class Perez made possible the successful advance of his unit toward a valuable objective and provided a lasting inspiration for his comrades.”

Unfortunately just a month later, Private Perez Jr. would be killed by an enemy sniper. Perez was buried with full military honors at Fairlawn Cemetery which is located in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The state government of Illinois honored the memory of Perez by naming a plaza located in Chicago's Little Village Square and a school after him. The Department of the Army the reserve center of the 221st Unit Army Hospital in Oklahoma City, the Manuel Perez Jr Reserve Center.

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321 S. 3rd, Ste 12
McAlester, OK
74501

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Tuesday	8:30am - 5pm
Wednesday	8:30am - 5pm
Thursday	8:30am - 5pm
Friday	8:30am - 5pm

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http://www.mcalesterlaw.com/

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