Oklahoma

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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.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  11-27-18
  

  Is Half of Oklahoma an Indian Reservation? The Supreme Court Sifts the Merits

  The argument was made up of equal parts history, much of it dark, and an assessment of the practical implications of a ruling that Congress had never clearly destroyed the sovereignty of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation over the area, covering about half the state.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  

  The bizarre war against AP U.S. history courses

  by Catherine Rampell

  It seems strange to organize an educational system around what can’t be taught to children.

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• SOURCE: The Christian Science Monitor
  2-19-15
  

  AP History survives funding cut in Oklahoma. Here's why.

  Responding to uproar, a conservative Oklahoma lawmaker backs off bill to curb funding for AP history that he says downplays American 'exceptionalism.' The bill 'was very poorly worded,' he said.

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  2-19-15
  

  The Oklahoma A.P. Test Controversy Masks the Real Scandal of American History Education

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  The great elephant in the A.P. classroom: Many college-level instructors don’t teach these skills in their own courses.

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• SOURCE: Think Progress
  2-17-15
  

  Oklahoma Lawmakers Vote Overwhelmingly To Ban Advanced Placement U.S. History

  An Oklahoma bill banning Advanced Placement U.S. History would also require schools to instruct students in a long list of ‘foundational documents,’ including the Ten Commandments, two sermons and three speeches by Ronald Reagan,

• SOURCE: History.com
  5-28-13
  

  The battle for Jim Thorpe’s body

  On May 28, 1888, Jim Thorpe was born in a one-room cabin in Prague, Oklahoma. A member of the Sac and Fox Nation, Thorpe—an Olympic champion and football and baseball star—was perhaps the greatest all-around athlete America has ever produced. Nearly a year following his death in 1953, his widow transported his body to a small Pennsylvania hamlet that agreed to rename itself in his honor. Now amid a family feud, Thorpe’s two surviving sons are seeking to re-inter his remains on tribal lands in his native Oklahoma, and a federal judge has ruled in their favor....