Tulsa Massacre

Tulsa's Black Wall Street Should be a National Monument

by Erik Loomis

Grassroots pressure to commemorate the site of the Tulsa massacre portends more public recognition of racial violence in American history. 

Congressional Hearing on Tulsa Race Massacre

Watch the House Judiciary Committee Subcommittee meeting on the Tulsa Race Massacre, which features the testimony of 107 year old Viola Fletcher, possibly the oldest survivor of the events of 1921. 

'This is still being suppressed': OU professor's book of recovered photos preserves history of Tulsa Race Massacre

by Ari Fife

Oklahoma University historian Karlos Hill has published a photographic history of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, working to bridge images often created by hostile whites to the experiences of Black survivors. 

Tulsa Public Schools To Launch New Curriculum For Teaching The 1921 Race Massacre

Board member Pastor Jennettie Marshall expressed enthusiasm about the new lesson plans: "Over these 100 years, for African Americans -- and I can only speak for African Americans -- we have lived in this city, and we have walked around feeling that our pain and our history and, as individuals, we were invisible."

Woman, 105, Leads Lawsuit Seeking Reparations For 1921 Tulsa Massacre

A 105 year-old woman, one of two known living survivors of the Tulsa massacre in 1921, is a lead plaintiff in a suit charging that the destruction of Black-owned property and government approval of terrorism against Black Tulsans causes ongoing harm today. 

Tulsa’s First Dig For Suspected Mass Graves From 1921 Massacre Of Black People Finds No Human Remains

The massacre — one of the worst episodes of racist violence in U.S. history — became the subject of renewed scrutiny as Tulsa prepares to commemorate the 100th anniversary next year. 

White Anti-Mask Protesters Jeered A Black Pastor Demanding Tulsa Race Massacre Reparations

As the group jeered, Reverend Robert Turner shouted: “You care more about a face mask than you do justice, than you do for people whose bodies are still in mass graves.”

Reparations Need to be Part of the Conversation about Racial Justice

by Nichole Nelson

Understanding how government policy held African Americans back economically — and advantaged whites — long after ending slavery, shows why the reparations discussion is once again growing.

The Republican President who Called for Racial Justice in America after Tulsa Massacre

Warren G. Harding’s comments about race and equality were remarkable for 1921.

From Grandfather to Grandson, the Lessons of the Tulsa Race Massacre

by Gregory B. Fairchild

An expert in community economic development reflects on how the devastation of Tulsa's Greenwood community should inform broad efforts to fight racial inequality. 

Historian Daina Ramey Berry on "Black Wall Street" and the Tulsa Massacre

American historian Daina Ramey Berry sits down with MSNBC’s Alicia Menendez to discuss the history of Tulsa’s 'Black Wall Street', and why so many black Americans were offended by the suggestion that President Trump would hold a campaign rally in that city on Juneteenth.

A White Republican Mayor Seeks the Truth about Tulsa’s Race Massacre a Century Ago

Bynum, a white Republican in deeply red Oklahoma, said he would not back down from trying to find answers to what happened.