Postal Work and the Struggle for Black Freedom
In late 1892, a railroad operator approached activist-journalist Ida B. Wells to inquire why the Black community of Memphis, Tennessee, had been
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Tulsa and the Open Question of Justice, 1921–2021
This week marks the 100th anniversary of the 1921 Tulsa race riots, a massacre orchestrated by a white mob against
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Tulsa: “By repeated blows the oak is felled”
The children told us where to find you, your charred, gun ridden, dressed in prom attire black bodies They told
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Sport as a Place of Violence in the Tulsa Race Massacre
On Tuesday May 31, 1921, the Oklahoma City Indians baseball team took to the field against the Tulsa Oilers for
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The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre: Healing Historical Racial Trauma
The centennial of a defining, defiling moment in Tulsa history, the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre (“Tulsa Massacre”), May 31 –
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