Oklahoma

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  5/31/2023
  

  Commemoration of the Tulsa Massacre Has Put Symbolism Over Justice for the Victims

  by Victor Luckerson

  "The neighborhood’s historical fame has become a kind of albatross slung over Black Tulsans’ necks, as efforts at building concrete pathways toward justice are buried under hollow symbolism."

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• SOURCE: Bloomberg CityLab
  5/30/2023
  

  The Tulsa Race Massacre was an Attack on Black People; Rebuilding Policies were an Attack on Black Wealth

  by Brentin Mock

  Victor Luckerson looks to the aftermath of the deadly attacks on the Greenwood district to argue that Tulsa's white leadership, in combination with federal highway and urban renewal programs, thwarted the efforts of Black Tulsans who were determined to rebuild. 

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• SOURCE: Lawyers, Guns & Money
  3/14/2023
  

  Tulsa's Black Wall Street Should be a National Monument

  by Erik Loomis

  Grassroots pressure to commemorate the site of the Tulsa massacre portends more public recognition of racial violence in American history. 

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• 10/9/2022
  

  Rednecks for Kennedy: How an Urban Democrat Could Build Bridges to Rural America

  by Jeff Bloodworth

  The cultural divide between urban and rural America is real and politically significant. But the Kennedy administration's success in Oklahoma shows that a coalition can be built with a combination of transactional politics and committed outreach. 

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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: Washington Post
  4/1/2022
  

  A Historic All-Black Oklahoma Town Wants Reparations to Rebuild as a "Safe Haven"

  “Oklahoma’s Black communities are overdue,” said Mayor Currin, 38, a fourth-generation Tullahassee resident. “Tullahassee has always been in a fight, always fighting to exist and always fighting to thrive."

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• SOURCE: Oklahoman
  5/26/2021
  

  'Dodging bullets' and coming home to 'nothing left': An illustrated history of the Tulsa Race Massacre.

  by Todd Pendleton and Mason Callejas

  The Oklahoman presents an illustrated history of the Greenwood community and the Tulsa race massacre with primary accounts. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/24/2021
  

  What The Tulsa Race Massacre Destroyed

  "Piecing together archival maps and photographs, with guidance from historians, The New York Times constructed a 3D model of the Greenwood neighborhood as it was before the destruction."

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  5/19/2021
  

  What Is Critical Race Theory And Why Did Oklahoma Just Ban It?

  by Kathryn Schumaker

  Attacks on "critical race theory" in Oklahoma's legislature are part of a political effort to prevent discussion of the state's racist past – the legislature made CRT a culture war issue as the centennial of the Tulsa Race Massacre approaches. Here's why we need more, not less, of the ideas behind CRT.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/14/2021
  

  Tulsa Race Massacre Commission Ousts Oklahoma Governor

  The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Commission removed Gov. Kevin Stitt from the panel just days after he had signed a bill that banned the teaching of certain concepts about race.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/17/2021
  

  The ‘Whitewashing’ of Black Wall Street

  Black business owners in the Greenwood district of Tulsa argue that the city's redevelopment plans for the area will erase the history of the 1921 race massacre, even as that history has begun to be recovered. 

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• 11/8/2020
  

  There is Nothing Sacred About the Military Vote

  by Rachel Gunter

  After a patient count, Joe Biden has claimed victory, and fears that late-arriving military absentee ballots could be subject to litigation that might decide the election have receded. This is fortunate, because history shows parties won't hesitate to interfere with the military vote for political advantage.

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• SOURCE: ABC 8 Tulsa
  10/20/2020
  

  Human Remains Found in Search for 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Victims

  Two coffins were discovered in Oaklawn Cemetery, where victims of the 1921 anti-Black massacre were buried. Forensic analysis has not yet connected the remains to the violent mob attacks on the city's Black community.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  9/20/2020
  

  Watching “Watchmen” as a Descendant of the Tulsa Race Massacre

  While the HBO series directed national attention to the Tulsa massacre, some Black descendants of the residents of the Greenwood district targeted by mob violence and arson were uncomfortable with their families' tragedy being mined for dramatic purposes. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  7/12/2020
  

  The McGirt Case Is a Historic Win for Tribes

  by Julian Brave NoiseCat

  Gorsuch, a westerner with experience in Indian law, who is no liberal, applied a conservative textualist approach to the reading of treaty law and statutes. The result: A legal theory that has been marshaled to combat abortion rights and gay marriage delivered the most significant and favorable Supreme Court decision for tribes in the 21st century.

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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: MSNBC
  6/14/2020
  

  Historian Daina Ramey Berry on "Black Wall Street" and the Tulsa Massacre

  American historian Daina Ramey Berry sits down with MSNBC’s Alicia Menendez to discuss the history of Tulsa’s 'Black Wall Street', and why so many black Americans were offended by the suggestion that President Trump would hold a campaign rally in that city on Juneteenth.

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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: Washington Post
  6/11/2020
  

  ‘Almost Blasphemous,’ Says Historian: Trump Plans Political Rally in Tulsa, Site of a Race Massacre, on Juneteenth

  CeLillianne Green, author and historian, argues that Trump's plan to hold a rally on the June 19th--the anniversary of emancipation in Texas--just steps from the site of one of the nation's worst episodes of white supremacist terrorism is too much to take. 

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• 4/15/19
  

  Oh, What a Beautiful Piece of American History

  by Bruce Chadwick

  The story of young settlers as they try to find their place in Oklahoma, America, and the world. It is a nicely told saga told within all of those memorable tunes.