Ameringer, Oscar & Freda Hogan

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Updated: 07 Apr 2013

Daily Oklahoman, The
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
October 7, 1988

Freda Ameringer , age 95, died Tuesday. Services 3pm, Friday, First Unitarian Church of OKC. Memorials may be made to Central Oklahoma Assn. of the Deaf and Hearing Impaired or Pilot Center or First Unitarian Church.

Born November 12, 1892, in Huntington, Arkansas, where she was introduced to the socialism of Mother Jones, Freda Hogan Ameringer was influenced by the frugality and neighborliness of her mother, Lottie Yowell, and the witty and intellectual socialism of her father, Dan Hogan.

In 1917 the family moved to Oklahoma, and Freda and her father joined Oscar Ameringer in organizing one of the most powerful socialist movements in American history. Freda and Oscar married in 1930. They later had a daughter, Susan.

During the four decades after Oscar's death in 1943, Freda helped found the Oklahoma Urban League (1946) and helped raise funds to establish the Pilot Club and to build nine community centers to serve forty-five hundred inner city children. She also campaigned for the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA), which was one of the few integrated community centers, for the United Nations Children's Education Fund (UNICEF), and for the Metropolitan Library System. Freda editorialized against segregation and the anti-labor “right to work” movement and in favor of slum clearance, public transportation, and the “War on Poverty” of the 1960s. In 1956 Ameringer was honored as Clubwoman of the Year, and in 1968 she was honored by the Oklahoma Legislature.

Freda Ameringer died October 4, 1988, in Oklahoma City.

Daily Oklahoman, The
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
November 7, 1943

Funeral for Oscar Ameringer, 73, nationally known author, editor and Socialist party leader, who died at Polyclinic hospital Friday night, will be held at 2pm Monday at the Unitarian church. Burial will be at Fairlawn Cemetery.

Ameringer born at Laubheim, Germany on August 4, 1870. came to America at the age of 14.

Mr. Ameringer was editor of the Illinois Miner, the Oklahoma Leader, and American Guardian.

Photo: John Thompson,"Ameringer, Oscar (1870-1943)" Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture, http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia (accessed July 14, 2009).

Agnes Burns Wieck was a crusading labor organizer, an activist known as "the Mother Jones of Illinois." This first book-length biography is a unique portrait of her energy and unremitting dedication to social justice.

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Compiled, transcribed and submitted by Marti Graham, Oklahoma County, OKGenWeb Coordinator, April 2013. Information posted for educational purposes for viewers and researchers. The contributor is not related to nor researching any of the above.

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