OK SCR28

Honors Nancy Randolph Davis, a native of Sapulpa who graduated from Booker T. Washington High School in 1944 and obtained her bachelor's degree from Langston University in 1948.

Recognizes Davis as the first African-American enrollee at Oklahoma A & M in 1949, where she earned a master's degree in home economics in 1952 despite facing classroom segregation.

Acknowledges Davis's 43-year career in the Oklahoma Public Education System teaching at Dunjee High School (until 1968) and Star Spencer High School, plus her activism in the Oklahoma City NAACP Youth Council organizing business desegregation and her role as adviser to the Miss Black Oklahoma Pageant since 1968.

Notes Davis received multiple honors including appointment as the first lay member of the Oklahoma Nursing Board in 1991, Oklahoma State University Distinguished Alumna in 1999, Oklahoma Human Rights Award in 2008, and College of Human Sciences Enhancing Human Lives Award in 2009.

Directs distribution of the resolution to Davis's children Nancy Lynn Davis, Calvin Orlando Davis, and Freddye Mae Davis following her death on March 23, 2015, at age 88.