John Calloway Walton Collection
Scope and Contents
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Governor of Oklahoma, 1923. Personal and official correspondence (1916-1948) regarding Walton's gubernatorial campaign, his term as governor, his impeachment, and his campaign against the Oklahoma Ku Klux Klan; election campaign literature and paraphernalia (1919-1938); speeches (1922-1938); newspaper clippings (1919-1943); transcripts (1823) of legal testimony from numerous military trials in Oklahoma concerning racist and other Klan-sponsored incidents, and from Walton's impeachment trials; and publications (1923-1924) regarding the Klan, politics and government, etc.
Dates
- 1903-1948
Restrictions on Access
Available for public access.
Extent
3 Cubic Feet (3 ft.)
Language of Materials
English
Ownership and Custodial History
Gift of Mrs. C.E. Martin, daughter of J.C. Walton.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Papers: Source of acquisition--Martin, Mrs. C.E. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1950.
- African Americans -- Oklahoma -- Civil rights Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Bridges -- Oklahoma Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Campaign literature, 1922 -- Democratic -- Oklahoma Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Campaign literature, 1932 -- Democratic -- Oklahoma Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Campaign literature, 1938 -- Democratic -- Oklahoma Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Campaign literature, 1944 -- Democratic -- Oklahoma Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Correspondence Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Cotton -- Oklahoma -- Prices Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Elections -- Oklahoma Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Governors Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Governors -- Oklahoma Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Impeachments -- Oklahoma Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Ku Klux Klan (1915- )
- Oklahoma -- Elections Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Oklahoma -- Politics and government Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Oklahoma -- Race relations Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Oklahoma Corporation Commission
- Oklahoma. Military Commission
- Political campaigns -- Oklahoma Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Political posters Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Purcell-Lexington Bridge Company (Okla.)
- Racism -- Oklahoma Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Slick, Tom, 1883-1930
- Speeches, addresses, etc. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Transcripts Subject Source: Ftamc
- Trials (Impeachment) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Tulsa (Okla.) -- Race relations Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Tulsa Benevolent Association
- Walton, J. C., 1881-1949
- Description rules
- Appm
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Western History Collections Repository
630 Parrington Oval
Room 300
Norman Oklahoma 73019 United States
westernhistorycollections@ou.edu
