History You Should Know: Oklahoma’s first Black public school principal Lena Lowery Sawner
Oklahoma’s first Black public school principal Lena Lowery Sawner was a prominent in the state and national Black educational organization. Lowery-Sawner was also the first female public school principal. Lowery-Sawner went to the University of Chicago, where she took her A. B. degree in 1902. Once Lowery-Sawner graduated she went back to Oklahoma and began […]