Through a mixture of hubris and active malice, Tulsa city leaders undermined the rebuilding of Greenwood. Black people brought the neighborhood back anyway. The tents stretched across the burned-out prairieland for acres, surrounded by dirt and rubble and trees stripped bare of all their foliage. Where the Dreamland Theater had … Read More

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

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 … Read More

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 … Read More

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 … Read More