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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.
source of stone image
External links
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freda_Ameringer
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).
Encyclopedia of
Oklahoma History
and Culture -
Ameringer, Oscar
Daily Oklahoman, The 
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
November 6, 1943 , pg 1
Death Finishes Turbulent Days for Ameringer
Veteran Socilist Leader, Publisher and Writer
Long Ill
Oscar Ameringer, veteran publisher, author and
leader of the Socialist party in Oklahoma for 30
years, died at 7.30 pm Friday.... he was 73 years
old.
Funeral arrangement had not been made Friday
night. The body was taken to the Watts funeral
home.... (click article image for more)
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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.
Sources: good faith fair use of sources stated above
Compiled, transcribed and submitted by Marti Graham, Oklahoma County, OKGenWeb Coordinator,
September 2017. 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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