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The Tulsa race massacre, also known as the Tulsa race riot or the Black Wall Street massacre, [12] was a two-day-long white supremacist terrorist [13] [14] massacre [15] that took place between May 31 and June 1, 1921, when mobs of white residents, some of whom had been appointed as deputies and armed by city government officials, [16] attacked black residents and destroyed homes and ...
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George Monroe was almost five years old on May 31, 1921, when his world was set on fire. The Monroe family lived on East Easton Street near Mount Zion Church in Greenwood, Oklahoma, the thriving African American neighborhood of segregated Tulsa. Osborne Monroe, George’s father, owned a roller-skating rink amidst an array of grocery stores, theaters...
Anita Williams Christopher laid out some of her father William D. Williams’ collection of materials related to the massacre on the top of an old desk that had belonged to her grandparents, John Wesley and Loula Mae Williams, proprietors of the Dreamland Theatre, one of Greenwood’s most iconic and prosperous institutions. The aspirational qualities ...
It had long been the museum’s goal to open the doors to a public truth-telling about African American history. We also wanted patrons to feel secure that the materials that people held in their homes, their basements and their attics, could be brought into the light of day and cared for, be better understood, historically valued, and when welcome, ...
Born in 1879, the civil rights lawyer Buck Colbert (B.C.) Franklin moved from the all-Black Oklahoma town of Rentiesville to Tulsa in 1921. He set up his law practice in Greenwood. His wife and children (including 6-year-old John Hope Franklin, the preeminent historian and founding chair of NMAAHC’s Scholarly Advisory Committee) planned to join him...
To mark the centennial anniversary of the Tulsa massacre, NMAAHC has created the Tulsa Collections Portaloffering greater access to the museum’s objects, documents, period film and dozens of hours of survivor’s memories. These resonate not only for Tulsa, where an interracial movement for education, justice, reparations and reconciliation continues...
Tulsa’s official response to the Massacre, recorded in the City’s Commission meeting minutes, placed blame on the victims. “Of eighty-eight indictments returned against alleged participants of the riot” when trials began in December 1921, “seventy-four were against Negroes.”1 Attorney B.C. Franklin’s office was burned during the Massacre, but he and his associates worked from a ...
By Tim Madigan. Photographs by Zora J Murff with Trent Bozeman. At 5:08 a.m. on June 1, 1921, a whistle pierced the predawn quiet of Tulsa, Oklahoma. There was disagreement later about whether the ...
May 26, 2021 · On June 1, 1921, as a white mob descended on Greenwood, the all-Black community in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Mary E. Jones Parrish grabbed her young daughter’s hand and ran for her life. Dodging machine ...
Once it was completed, Vernon A.M.E. became one of the most prominent Black churches in Tulsa, with a roster of members that included O.W. Gurley, physician R.T. Bridgewater, and E.W. Woods (the principal at Booker T. Washington High School), among other influential local residents. Then the massacre destroyed most of Greenwood—35 blocks.
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Jun 20, 2020 · Vernon African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church is the oldest continuously operating Black church in Oklahoma. It was founded in 1905 in what was then Indian Territory, one of the Twin Territories that became the State of Oklahoma when it was admitted into the Union in 1907. Vernon is located at 311 North Greenwood Avenue in Tulsa, Oklahoma and ...
