Cross Cultural Solidarity

History; in the Service of Solidarity

The Tulsa Race Massacre

DOCUMENTARIES

CNN: Dreamland: The Burning of Black Wall Street.

The History Channel: Tulsa Burning: The 1921 Race Massacre.

PBS: Tulsa: The Fire and the Forgotten.

PODCASTS

Code Switch: Tulsa, 100 Years Later.

New York Public Radio: Blindspot: Tulsa Burning.

Soul of a Nation: Tulsa’s Buried Truth.

BOOKS

Qurash Ali-Lansana & Najah Amatullah-Hylton: Opal’s Greenwood Oasis.

Floyd Cooper & Carol Boston Weatherford: Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre.

Scott Ellsworth: The Ground Breaking: An American City and Its Search for Justice.

Greenwood Art Project: An Impulse to Keep.

Karlos K. Hill: The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre: A Photographic History.

Randy Krehbiel: Tulsa 1921: Reporting a Massacre.

Carlos Moreno: The Victory of Greenwood.

Jewell Parker Rhodes: Magic City.

ARTICLES

Keisha Blain: Tulsa Race Massacre survivors are fighting for reparations, 100 years later.

Gillian Brockell: Tulsa isn’t the only race massacre you were never taught in school. Here are others.

DeNeen L. Brown:

James Howard Hill, Jr.: Watchmen, Haunting, and the Religious Imagination.

Fay Horwitt, Lanessa Owens-Chaplin, & Trevor Smith: Tulsa’s Greenwood neighborhood wasn’t America’s only Black Wall Street.

Tracy Jan: The ‘whitewashing’ of Black Wall Street: A century after the Tulsa massacre, Black entrepreneurs in the city’s Greenwood district feel threatened with erasure yet again, amid demands for reparations.

Hannibal B. Johnson: The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre: Healing Historical Racial Trauma.

Robin D.G. Kelley: The Tulsa Race Massacre Went Way Beyond “Black Wall Street”.

NPR:

New York Times:

Suzanne E. Smith: Black Wall Street, Collective Memory, and Reparations.

Thomas J. Sugrue: Terror in the Streets.

FURTHER RESOURCES

Tulsa Historical Society and Museum: The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre