Resources

A Report by the Oklahoma Commission to Study the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921

1921 Tulsa Race Riot Reconnaissance Survey (2005) by the National Park Service

Tulsa Race Massacre Archive at OSU-Tulsa 

Tulsa Race Massacre Archive at the University of Tulsa 

Computations as to the Deaths from the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot (Dick Warner 2000)

The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 by I. Marc Carlson

Greenwood Cultural Center

The Victory of Greenwood “the heroes and entrepreneurs who built Greenwood and then rebuilt it after its destruction”

#TulsaSyllabus – an online resource guide

African American Experiences during World War I (video)

Black Wall Street Flourished as a Self-Contained Hub in Early 1900s (from History.com)

Curriculum from the Oklahoma History Center (2020)

Death in a Promised Land: The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921
by Scott Ellsworth
Foreword by John Hope Franklin
Louisiana State University Press 1982

Black Wall Street: From Riot to Renaissance in Tulsa’s Historic Greenwood District
by Hannibal B. Johnson
Eakin Press 1998

Reconstructing the Dreamland
by Alfred L. Brophy
Oxford University Press 2002

Riot and Remembrance
by James S. Hirsch
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2002

Black Wall Street: From Riot to Renaissance in Tulsa’s Historic Greenwood District
by Hannibal B. Johnson
Eakin Press 1998

Tulsa 1921: Reporting a Massacre
By Randy Krehbiel
University of Oklahoma Press 2019

Black Wall Street 100: An American City Grapples With Its Historical Racial Trauma
By Hannibal B. Johnson
Eakin Press 2020

The Ground Breaking: An American City and Its Search for Justice
By Scott Ellsworth
Penguin Random House 2021