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Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher
Civil rights lawyer from Oklahoma
This article is about the late civil rights lawyer from Oklahoma. For the North Carolina retired physician and Republican party candidate, see Ada Fisher.
Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher (February 8, 1924 – October 18, 1995) was a key figure in the Civil Rights Movement in Oklahoma.
She applied for admission into the University of Oklahomalaw school in order to challenge the state's segregation laws and to become a lawyer.
Early life
Fisher was born six years before the lynching of Henry Argo in Chickasha, Oklahoma, to Rev.
Travis Bruce Sipuel (1877–1946) and Martha Belle Smith (maiden; 1885–1971). She graduated from Lincoln High School in 1941 as valedictorian. She enrolled in the Arkansas Agricultural, Mechanical & Normal College (now University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff), but transferred to Langston University in 1942.
Ada Lois Sipuel, on March 2, 1944, in Chickasha, married Warren Washington Fisher (1916–1987