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Segregation by Design: Greenwood and I-244

Tulsa is the focus of another recent article from a UK newspaper website: A story in the Guardian Online about the impact of expressway construction on Tulsa's Greenwood neighborhood, and the possibility of reviving the neighborhood by removing the north leg of the Inner Dispersal Loop. Twenty-five years before Don...

Posted by Michael Bates on August 5, 2023 10:57 PM

Free Greenwood Green Book walking tours, November 16 & 23, 2019

Greenwood Ave., north of Easton St., looking north along Sand Springs Railroad interurban tracks toward intersection with Greenwood Pl. and the Del Rio Hotel, which was listed in the 1954-1956 editions of the Green Book. Mike McUsic, a historical researcher on the topic of the Green Book, the segregation-era...

Posted by Michael Bates on October 19, 2019 1:40 PM

Greenwood Gap Theory: Tulsa's Green Book places weren't destroyed in 1921

A story published Monday by public radio station KGOU is another prime specimen of the cognitive dissonance that is the "Greenwood Gap Theory" -- the misconception that Tulsa's African-American neighborhood was never rebuilt after what is commonly known as the 1921 Race Riot (but more accurately described as a massacre)....

Posted by Michael Bates on March 20, 2019 12:22 AM

How integrated is Tulsa? A 2010 update

An interactive demographic map -- called the "Racial Dot Map" -- is making the rounds. The map is by Dustin A. Cable, Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia. Each dot on the map represents one person from the 2010 U. S. Census, located within the...

Posted by Michael Bates on August 18, 2013 4:03 PM