Edwyna Synar

Three states have the highest number of Miss America winners – California, Ohio, and Oklahoma, with six winners each.

Mabel Anderson was a Cherokee writer and educator whose works focused on documenting aspects of Cherokee history and culture through biographies, poetry, and fiction.

Dr. Edwyna Synar has been writing and speaking about Women's History for over 20 years. Her stories in this series can be found at http://rememberladies.weebly.com

In the early 1930s, some small-town girls came together at Durant’s Oklahoma Presbyterian College, a tiny church junior college, to became one of the greatest women’s basketball teams ever.

California Taylor Brock was a prominent founding citizen, teacher, businesswoman and NAACP branch secretary in Boley who founded the local NAACP chapter to fight segregation.

Minta Foreman was a Cherokee woman who spent five decades teaching students in government Indian schools. She taught among the Choctaw, Cherokee, Chickasaw and Seminole nations. She was the only

Lucy Gage brought kindergartens to Oklahoma Territory. She then promoted the same ideas in Michigan and Tennessee. She is known as a pioneer in early childhood education.

At 6 years old, Dorothy Lorentino won a landmark case, Dorothy Sunrise v. District Board of Cache Consolidated School District No. 1, allowing Indian children to attend public schools rather

Blanche Sewell started as a Hollywood film editor in 1918. From 1925 to 1949, she worked at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM).

Betty Zahn was a greatly-admired Oklahoma City civic leader. She was selected National Mother of the Year in 1971 and was inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame in 1973.