The Tulsa Race Massacre: Teaching and Learning Resources
The History Department has partnered with the Center for Public Secrets in Tulsa, with co-sponsorship from the Black Studies Department, to bring forward a series of events and resources to mark the centennial year of the atrocity.
Banner Image: Running the Negro Out of Tulsa© Unidentified Photographer, Gift of Brian Wallis
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Historic Greenwood and the Tulsa Race Massacre
Chief Egunwale Amusan, Bryan Bruckman, and Patricia A. Schechter
This interactive map illustrates some of the key locations of the historic Greenwood neighborhood in Tulsa, Oklahoma, known as "Black Wall Street," and features important African American businesses, cultural institutions, ...Read More
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The Burning of Greenwood: Voices from Tulsa, Then and Now
Chief Egunwale Amusan, Randy Hopkins, and Patricia A. Schechter
Chief Amusan speaks about his dynamic history walking tour of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Randy Hopkins’s discusses his eye-opening research into the media coverup of the Tulsa Race Massacre. ...Read More
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Mask of Atonement: Mark of the Hun
Randy Hopkins
This video reviews the post-massacre press coverage of a short-lived attempt by white authorities in Tulsa to offer “reparations” – their word – to African American property owners who lost ...Read More
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Media and Massacre: The Tulsa Daily World's Incitements to Murder
Randy Hopkins
This video examines the “Daily World,” Tulsa, Oklahoma’s largest circulating newspaper for its treatment of racial violence in 1917. That year witnessed a spike in 100% Americanism and xenophobia as ...Read More
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Books for Young Readers: The Tulsa Race Massacre, 1921
Patricia A. Schechter
This list gathers picture books, novels, and testimony published with readers up to middle school grades.
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Colonialism and Statehood in Oklahoma (Bibliography)
Patricia A. Schechter
The assault in Tulsa was one in a series of attacks by whites on black people and communities in this period, like the Arkansas Race Riot of 1917 and the ...Read More
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History of the Tulsa Race Massacre, 1921 (Bibliography)
Patricia A. Schechter
This bibliography gathers the most significant and important scholarship on the Tulsa Race Massacre. It includes books and articles by historians, journalists, lawyers, and political commentators, like President Joseph Biden.
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Videos, News, and Historical Documentaries: The Tulsa Race Massacre, 1921
Patricia A. Schechter
To mark the centennial year since the Tulsa Race Massacre, a number of news outlets and public broadcasting stations, including the History Channel, put together one-hour specials. Included on this ...Read More
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Primary Sources Related to the Greenwood neighborhood, Tulsa Oklahoma, 1900-1921 (Bibliography)
Patricia A. Schechter, Rebecca Hayes, and Corry Hinckley
Items in this bibliography were selected for their illustrative power and are intended to serve as an introduction to some of the source material available digitally to those interested in ...Read More
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"The Battling Ground": Memory, Violence, and Resistance in Greenwood, North Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1907-1980
Greta Katherine Smith
Tulsa, Oklahoma's historically African American neighborhood of Greenwood in North Tulsa has long been contested terrain. Built by black settlers beginning in the late nineteenth-century, the neighborhood evolved into a ...Read More