Posts by James Bullis
Gilcrease Museum: Voices of Greenwood: Conversation with Carlos Moreno and Jennifer King
Carlos Moreno, from the Victory of Greenwood, and Jennifer King, grand-niece of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre survivors Mabel and Pressley Little, discuss Pressley Little’s family and legacy with Gilcrease Museum. Video Link: https://www.facebook.com/GilcreaseMuseum/videos/295698251939001
Read MoreTahlequah Daily Press: Cherae Sowder Stone is a Cherokee citizen and a researcher and editor for the Victory of Greenwood project
The Victory of Greenwood project is not only about the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, but about Greenwood’s founders, its rebuilding and resurgence with the upcoming centennial of the Massacre. The focus on racial inequities has boosted interest in the history of oppression, since the founding of our nation must be acknowledged before it can be…
Read MoreVictory of Greenwood: S. M. & Eunice Jackson
Photo of S.M. & Eunice Jackson (right) courtesy of the Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Princetta R. Newman Often mentioned alongside John and Loula Williams and E. L. and Jeanne Goodwin as one of the greatest power couples of Greenwood, S. M. and Eunice Jackson were…
Read MoreCity of Tulsa Planning office: Lacy Community Center Public Art Project Simon Berry (1890 – 1941)
The Lacy Park story is part and parcel with that of the pioneers who helped make it a reality. In 1929, Simon Berry, a businessman from the area, donated 13.4 acres of parkland to the City of Tulsa, for a price of $1, to establish Lacy Park, which was then known as Berry Park. The…
Read MoreNEH: The 1921 Tulsa Massacre: What Happened to Black Wall Street
As city streets throbbed with protests (and what some might call uprisings) during the summer of 2020, two science fiction dramas recalled the massacre of Tulsa, Oklahoma, which took place 100 years ago this spring. Watchmen and Lovecraft Country, both on HBO, filled television screens with imagery of Tulsa’s Black neighborhood of Greenwood—Booker T. Washington…
Read MoreVictory of Greenwood: Dr. Olivia Hooker
Photo of Dr. Olivia J. Hooker courtesy of the U.S. Coast Guard. In September 2018, the nonprofit organization StoryCorps recorded Dr. Olivia Hooker’s recollections about being the first Black woman admitted to the U.S. Coast Guard in 1945. She spoke about her worries as well as her sense of great pride for having served her…
Read MoreThe Victory of Greenwood: E. L. and Jeanne Goodwin
by Carlos Moreno and David GoodwinPhoto of E.L. Goodwin courtesy of the Oklahoma Eagle. Eleven-year-old Edwin Lawrence Goodwin arrived in Greenwood in 1914 with his sisters Anna and Lucille, brother James Jr., and parents James Henri and Carlie Greer Goodwin. The family had come from Water Valley, Mississippi, where James Henri prospered in the funeral…
Read MoreThe Victory of Greenwood: Black Media Reporting of the Massacre
Most of what we know today about the 1921 Race Massacre comes from white newspapers (the Tulsa Tribune and the Tulsa World) and white journalists and historians such as Scott Ellsworth, Tim Madigan, James S. Hirsch, and others. While these authors have certainly helped bring attention about the Massacre to a national audience, what has…
Read MorePod4Good: Carlos Moreno, The Victory of Greenwood, and Telling the Full Story
Carlos Moreno joins Jesse and Chris to discuss the Victory of Greenwood, a project that endeavors to tell the story of Greenwood from the perspective of the heroes and entrepreneurs who built Greenwood and then rebuilt it after its destruction. They are doing that via a book that will come out in May 2021, a…
Read MoreThe Victory of Greenwood: B.C. Franklin
Photo of B.C. Franklin courtesy of the Tennessee State Library and Archives. B.C. Franklin’s autobiography, “My Life and an Era,” takes its readers back in time to a period of Oklahoma’s history when Black families enjoyed an abundance of prosperity, peace and freedom. His parents were Choctaw and Chickasaw and were both highly respected in…
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