Entries from BatesLine tagged with 'Tulsa race riot'

Smithsonian Channel mangles Greenwood history

There was some excitement among Tulsa history buffs when it was learned that the Smithsonian Channel would be showing colorized clips from home movies showing Greenwood, Tulsa's historic African-American district, as it was in the mid-to-late1920s. Instead we have another instance of the erroneous notion I call the "Greenwood...

Tulsa 1921 map

A remarkable and detailed 1921 map of Tulsa is available for viewing online, from the Special Collections of the University of Tulsa McFarlin Library. The inset map shows the entire city, and is captioned; TULSA AND ADDITIONS A Ready Reference and Guide Map to Tulsa's OFFICE & PUBLIC BLDGS. CLUBS,...

Marc Carlson's Tulsa Race Riot research

I. Marc Carlson, Librarian of Special Collections at the University of Tulsa, has several personal webpages containing his research on the Tulsa Race Riot and other historical topics. I just found out about this material earlier this evening and wanted to preserve the links for future exploration: Tulsa Race Riot...

Booker T. Washington High School curriculum, 1921

This Land Press has posted photos of every page of the Booker T. Washington High School Yearbook from 1921, the year of the race riot that destroyed the community which Washington High served. Faculty: Nine men, six women, and all appear to be African-American. Course of Study Freshman Class Latin...

Brenda Terry on Greenwood in the '40s and '50s

One of the fun things about blogging for over eight years is when someone posts a comment or sends an email about a long-ago blog entry. Someone is searching on the web for information, perhaps about family or friends, and finds one of my entries, then writes a note to...

Greenwood since the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre

The story of Tulsa's Greenwood District did not end in 1921.

Tulsa Area Race Relations and History Survey online

The John Hope Franklin Center for Reconciliation has posted an online survey for Tulsa area residents on race relations and history. By way of explaining what it covers, here's the text from the first page: Thank you for your willingness to help improve our understanding of perceptions about race relations...

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