Signs naming this bridge in honor of Chickasha native and civil rights pioneer Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher were installed recently. The bridge is on US-62 three-tenths of a mile east of the H.E. Bailey Turnpike near Chicka sha and spans the Washita River. Sipuel Fisher waged a three-year lawsuit against the University of Oklaho ma law school that went all the way to the nation’s highest court. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1948 that Oklahoma must provide Fisher with the same opportunities for securing a legal education as it provided to other citizens of the state, and decreed in 1950 that segregation impaired and inhibited the ability of a Black student to study and thus Blacks could no longer be segregated at OU. Fisher graduated from the OU law school in 1952 and earned a master’s degree in history from OU in 1968. Gov. David Walters symbolically righted the wrongs of the past by appointing Dr. Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher to the Board of Regents of the Uni versity of Oklahoma in 1992. She died in 1995 at the age of 71.
Bridge named for civil rights pioneer Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher
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