We Fought Back: The Black Legal Struggle for Education in Oklahoma Territory book talk and signing with author Sara Doolittle

Author Dr. Sara Doolittle will present a free author talk and book signing at The Chisholm on Thursday, November 5, at 6 p.m. The discussion will feature her new title, We Fought Back: The Black Legal Struggle for Education in Oklahoma Territory (The University of Oklahoma Press, 2026). Copies of the book will be available at the signing. Most people are familiar with the landmark 1954 US Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education, which held that state laws mandating racial segregation in public schools were unconstitutional. But what about the court cases that far preceded, and informed, this national ruling? They took place in smaller courts, in unsung parts of the United States,