A leading activist from a young age, Sipuel tested the legal fiction of “separate but equal”, opening higher education to African-American students in the state of Oklahoma. By doing so, a concrete foundation was laid for the Brown v Board of Education decision by the Supreme Court. Sipuel was raised in a household with strong belief of racial equality . Following the denunciation of her brother, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) leaders served as plaintiff to contest the segregationist admissions procedures of the state’s sole white law school at the University of Oklahoma, Sipuel’s family volunteered her to take the charge. Her application was denied by the OU Law School, therefore, the Sipuel family lawyers filed that because…