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Come and enjoy a boba milk tea while we discuss a famous 1950s criminal court case of Tulsa in "Oklahoma's Atticus" by Hunter Howe Cates. Registration is required. For adults and teens.
Tulsa, Okla., 1953: an impoverished Cherokee named Buster Youngwolfe confesses to brutally raping and murdering his 11-year-old female relative. When Youngwolfe recants his confession, saying he was forced to confess by the authorities, his city condemns him, except for one man -- public defender and Creek Indian Elliott Howe. Recognizing in Youngwolfe the life that could have been his if not for a few lucky breaks, Howe risks his career to defend Youngwolfe against the powerful county attorney's office. Forgotten today, the sensational story of the murder, investigation and trial made headlines nationwide.
Oklahoma's Atticus is a tale of two cities -- oil-rich downtown Tulsa and the dirt-poor slums of north Tulsa; of two newspapers -- each taking different sides in the trial; and of two men both born poor Native Americans, but whose lives took drastically different paths.
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