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| Title | Oral history interview with Vicki Miles-LaGrange |
| Interviewee | Miles-LaGrange, Vicki |
| Interviewer | Finchum, Tanya |
| Interview Date | 11/5/2007 |
| Interview Date 2 | 12/17/2007 |
| Abstract | Vicki Miles-LaGrange is among the few women who have served in the Oklahoma state legislature; elected to the Senate in 1986, served through 1993; President Clinton appointed her as the United States attorney for the Western district of Oklahoma; born in Oklahoma City in a then-segregated hospital in Northeast Oklahoma City; lived in Edwards Addition, probably one hundred percent occupied by African-American families; wonderful childhood; parents were educators; parents earned Masters degrees from the University of Oklahoma in 1955; favorite classes were civics and social studies; family ate dinner and watched the news together; wrote a letter to President Kennedy; made scrapbooks of the Kennedys; being one of Hannahs Helpers in the sixth or seventh grade in the late 1960s and campaigning for Hannah Atkins; elected president of the Student Council in junior high; elected Governor of Girls State; at age 18 elected as an Oklahoma delegate to the Democratic Convention; McGovern/Frasier guidelines; meeting Mr. Carl Albert; law school at Howard University and working for Mr. Albert, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives; speech and elocution lessons, ballet and cello lessons; Senator E. Melvin Porter, also a lawyer, as a role model; Honor Law Graduate Program at the Department of Justice; rotating through the criminal division; and prosecuting Nazi war criminals residing in the U.S; working in the District Attorneys office in Oklahoma City; decision to run for seat soon to be vacated by Senator Porter; staying in the race after Senator Porter changed his mind; mother and mothers friend as campaign organizers; applying lessons learned from the Campaign Workbook by the Womens Education Fund; did targeting research with Senator Porters election data; name recognition due to both parents roles in the education field in the district; grassroots campaign and election night; did not have an opponent in the 1990 election; first legislation was a senate-joint revolution to create a literacy task force; concerned about issues that affected women, families and children; pre-natal care in the state of Oklahoma; negotiating bills and learning the process; carrying Representative Freddye Williams breast cancer bill in the senate; a life lesson, let your word be your bond, know to what youre committing before you do it; term limits were adopted by the voters at the beginning of second term; chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee; named to the Education Appropriations Committee first year; the Fair Employment Practices Act; and moving to Chief Federal Prosecutor and then U.S. Attorney. |
| Subject | Miles-LaGrange, Vicki, 1953- ; Legislators --Oklahoma ; Oklahoma --Politics and government ; Oklahoma. Legislature ; Oklahoma. Legislature. Senate ; Women in politics --Oklahoma |
| Description | Vicki Miles-LaGrange was interviewed November 5, 2007 and December 17, 2007 as part of the Women of the Oklahoma Legislature Oral History Project. Mrs. Miles-LaGrange was elected to the Oklahoma Senate in 1986 and served through 1993. She held the Senate District 48 seat and was a member of the Democratic Party. Mrs. Miles-LaGrange shares her memories of growing up in a segregated community being nurtured by parents who were educators and her journey into the political arena. She also discusses campaigning for a senate seat held by one of her role models, legislation while serving, and being appointed to the bench. |
| Digital Publisher | OOHRP-Oklahoma State University Library |
| Collection | Women of the Oklahoma Legislature |
| Interview Number | WOL_026 |
| Rights | This material may not be copied or reproduced without permission. For more information, contact the Oklahoma Oral History Research Program at liboh@okstate.edu or call 405-744-7685. |
| Identifier | oralhistwol |
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| Title | Excerpt 1 |
| Interviewee | Miles-LaGrange, Vicki |
| Interviewer | Finchum, Tanya |
| Interview Date | 11/5/2007 |
| Interview Date 2 | 12/17/2007 |
| Subject | Miles-LaGrange, Vicki, 1953- ; Legislators --Oklahoma ; Oklahoma --Politics and government ; Oklahoma. Legislature ; Oklahoma. Legislature. Senate ; Women in politics --Oklahoma |
| Description | In this audio excerpt, Vicki Miles-LaGrange talks about her early interest in government growing up, watching news as a youth, writing to John F. Kennedy, creating scrapbooks, Robert Kennedy, Hannah Atkins and Hannah's Helpers. |
| Format | audio/.mp3 |
| Digital Publisher | OOHRP-Oklahoma State University Library |
| Collection | Women of the Oklahoma Legislature |
| Interview Number | WOL_026 |
| Rights | This material may not be copied or reproduced without permission. For more information, contact the Oklahoma Oral History Research Program at liboh@okstate.edu or call 405-744-7685. |
| Identifier | oralhistwol |
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