Date Original
1902-1992
Description
The project contains the audio cassette and transcript of an oral history interview with Hazel Richardson of Tulsa, Oklahoma, the step-daughter of Kate Wilson-Code Thomas.
Biographical/Historical Note
Kate Wilson-Code Thomas was born about 1901, and her sister Marguerite Wilson, born about 1903, the daughters of Horace and Mae Wilson of Hot Springs, Arkansas. Kate and Marguerite were long-time school teachers in Hot Springs who influenced the lives of many African American students. Both sisters graduated from Langston High School in Hot Springs. Kate Wilson married and taught for fifteen years in Shawnee, Oklahoma. She graduated from Langston University (once known as Oklahoma Agricultural and Normal University), Langston, Oklahoma, in June 1946. Kate Wilson-Code began teaching in Hot Springs in September 1946; first at Douglass and then Goldstein Elementary Schools. Her sister Marguerite began teaching in Hot Springs in the early 1920s. She earned a degree in education from Arkansas Mechanical and Normal College (now the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff) in 1957. They remained teachers with the Hot Springs School District until the 1960s. Marguerite retired in 1962, and Kate in 1967. Kate Wilson Code Thomas, due to illness, moved to Tulsa in 1986 to live with her step-daughter, Hazel Richardson. She died on May 22, 1992 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and was buried there. She was preceded in death by her younger sister, Marguerite who died May 6, 1968, in Hot Springs. The “Wilson-Code Sisters: Photograph Project,” was a project of P.H.O.E.B.E./The Uzuri Project of Hot Springs, Arkansas, to find information on two local African American school teachers. The photographs are from the personal collection of the Wilson sisters and documents middle-class life of African Americans living in Hot Springs, Arkansas, from the early 1900s to the 1960s. The collection also contains several tourist attraction photographs from Happy Hollow Studios, a photographic and amusement park, once located off Central Avenue. The project was made possible with a Black History Grant from the Arkansas Humanities Council, and the Black History Advisory Committee (now the Black History Commission of Arkansas).
Physical Description
Document, 8.5" x 11"
Geographical Area
Arkansas
Language
English
Identifier
MS.000558
Resource Type
Text
Collection
Wilson-Code sisters: Oral history interview with Hazel Richardson, MS.000558
Publisher
Arkansas State Archives
Contributing Entity
Arkansas State Archives
Recommended Citation
Wilson-Code Sister: Oral history interview with Hazel Richardson, Arkansas State Archives, Little Rock, Arkansas.
Rights
Use and reproduction of images held by the Arkansas State Archives without prior written permission is prohibited. For information on reproducing images held by the Arkansas State Archives, please call 501-682-6900 or email at state.archives@arkansas.gov.
Disciplines
United States History
