The Oklahoma Bar Journal May 2024

ESTABLISHING VOICES OF DEMOCRACY: POST-CIVIL WAR AMERICAN REFORM “Our fathers believed that if this noble view of the rights of man was to flourish, it must be rooted in democracy. The most basic right of all was the right to choose your own leaders,” says President Lyndon B. Johnson in a special message to Congress regarding the American promise in 1965. Democracy is the cornerstone of America and is what allows the ideas of possibility and hope to run through the country. Read the full essay at www.okbar.org/lawday.

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THE LOST STORIES FROM HISTORY The sky’s engulfed with light, blinding everything around me. I wake up sweating, wondering about the absurd dreams that fill my mind this time. I look at the clock seeing 6 am bold across the face, peering at me like a cat. I lazily leave my bed, and put on my fuzzy green slippers. As I walk to fulfill that longing for a single drip of coffee, I stop suddenly, dead in my tracks. Read the full essay at www.okbar.org/lawday.

1. Jaley Hunt First Place

2. Mary Elizabeth Kauk First Place 12th Grade Writing Corn Bible Academy, Clinton

3. Jessie Wong First Place

4. Lily Ramon First Place

12th Grade Art Edmond Santa Fe High School, Edmond

11th Grade Writing Norman High School, Norman

11th Grade Art High Plains Technology Center, Woodward

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