E. Melvin Porter, Oklahoma’s first African American State Senator held his seat for 22 years. Porter born in Okmulgee, Oklahoma, in 1930, was a staunch civil rights leader and politician in Oklahoma. He served in the US Army before attending Tennessee State University. In 1959 he graduated from the Vanderbilt School of Law. In 1961 […]

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