Archive for May 2021

The Tulsa Daily World’s June 2, 1921 morning edition headlines read: “Dead Estimated at 100: City is Quiet. $2000 to Start Fund for Relief. Negros Gladly Accept Guards. 5,000 Negro Refugees Guarded in Camp at County Fairgrounds.” Fewer than 24 hours after Ku Klux Klan leaders — along with the Tulsa Police Department and the…

Interview with Good Day Tulsa about the Victory of Greenwood, and a conversation with Stephen Green and A Kids Book About, discussing the collaboration to adapt the story of the massacre to a much younger audience. This book is A Kids Book About’s first book addressing a specific event with the clear aim of offering…

To be informed about the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre which will mark a centennial this Monday, Oprah Winfrey shares a reading list of 27 books to educate one about the ‘worst incidents of racial violence in American history.’ Through her Book Club which highlights the books chosen by Oprah in regular interactive sessions with fans,…

The Black Wall Street Times commemorative magazine will feature 100 years of resilience. This unique project will include a history of the Greenwood community – destroyed in 1921 but rebuilt in the years that followed. We will also highlight the second destruction caused by gentrification. We will not only commemorate the destruction of families and livelihoods…

The massacre took the lives of dozens of Black residents. It also left behind a devastated neighborhood and many property owners struggling to cover their losses. Ms. Williams was one of at least 70 Greenwood property owners who filed insurance claims after the massacre. After many of their claims were denied, Ms. Williams and others…

The basement wall of the Historic Vernon A.M.E. Church is the only edifice of the original Greenwood neighborhood that survived the conflagration. On May 31, the church is holding a dedication for a planned Prayer Wall for Racial Healing at the site, which will eventually include a baptismal pool and a place to hold weddings,…

Carlos Moreno, a Tulsa resident and author of the forthcoming book “The Victory of Greenwood,” said his book focuses on what happened after the massacre: the rebuilding of the district from the mid-’20s to the mid-’60s. “The history of Greenwood doesn’t end June 1, 1921,” Moreno said. “Why the rest of Oklahoma doesn’t know about…

On this week’s episode of the podcast, we went to Tulsa to report on the 100th anniversary of the 1921 massacre, in which a white mob destroyed a Black neighborhood called Greenwood and killed an estimated 300 people, most of them Black. In addition to our reporting on Tulsa, we wanted to tell you about…

How do you explain to children what happened in Tulsa in 1921? Carlos Moreno has written “A Kids Book About the Tulsa Race Massacre.” The book is being released June 1 in conjunction with the centennial of the race massacre. “I felt it was important to make a book for kids that explores this event…

Carlos Moreno stood on the Archer Street bridge over U.S. Highway 75 in northeast Tulsa, pointing west as he squinted into the sun. Much like the wind on top of the bridge, the traffic underneath was loud, and there was no shade from the May heat. But it’s here, he said, where you can see…