Tulsa

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/30/2022
  

  Tulsa Schools Downgraded by State after Teacher Complains Implicit Bias Training "Shames" White People

  “In Tulsa, we are teaching our children an accurate — and at times painful, difficult, and uncomfortable — history about our shared human experience. We also teach in a beautifully diverse community and need our team to work together to be prepared to do that well,” reads a district statement on the decision. 

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  6/7/2022
  

  The Second Destruction of Tulsa's Black Community

  by Karlos K. Hill

  Photographer Donald Thompson has set out to capture a visual history of Tulsa's Greenwood district, an African American community decimated first by the 1921 race massacre and then by urban renewal in the 1970s. Historian Karlos Hill interviews him about his work. 

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• SOURCE: CNN
  6/16/2020
  

  Tulsa's Black Residents Grapple with the City's Racist History and Police Brutality Ahead of Trump's Rally

  Donald Trump's announcement of a planned rally in Tulsa opened new and old wounds for the city's black residents.

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• SOURCE: 60 Minutes
  6/14/2020
  

  Greenwood, 1921: One of the Worst Race Massacres in American History (video)

  A story reported in December features Smithsonian historian John W. Franklin describing the long-overdue plans to unearth the truth and honor the dead of the Greenwood neighborhood, the "Black Wall Street" of Tulsa, Oklahoma. 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  2/11/20
  

  Shifting Collective Memory in Tulsa

  by Russell Cobb

  The African-American community is working to change the narrative of the 1921 massacre.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/4/20
  

  Tulsa plans to dig for suspected mass graves from a 1921 race massacre

  Nearly a century after a race massacre left as many as 300 people dead, the city plans to dig for suspected mass graves that may have been used to dispose of African American bodies.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  12/17/19
  

  Tulsa Sites May Hold Mass Graves From ‘Black Wall Street’ Massacre

  When white mobs obliterated a thriving black district nearly 100 years ago, as many as 300 people died. Researchers have found clues to where some of those bodies may be.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/27/19
  

  Democratic candidates are finally talking about domestic terrorism. Here’s why that matters.

  by Alaina E. Roberts

  When Beto O’Rourke referred to the Tulsa massacre, he was correcting the record on racial violence.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  10-9-18
  

  Tulsa to Search for Mass Graves From the Race Massacre of 1921

  During the pogrom, a white mob killed an estimated 300 black Tulsans. According to eyewitnesses, the dead are buried in unmarked mass graves in Greenwood.