Mended #7
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This is a special edition of Mended featuring the best links to content about the Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial. Please share with your family, friends and coworkers.
🏛️ 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Commission
“The projects of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Commission will educate Oklahomans and Americans about the Race Massacre and its impact on the state and Nation; remember its victims and survivors; and create an environment conducive to fostering sustainable entrepreneurship and heritage tourism within the Greenwood District specifically, and North Tulsa generally.” Learn more.
🖤 Search for Victims
"My job," says Dr. Phoebe Stubblefield, "is to let the bones speak." Continue reading.
🔥 SR24: A Senate Resolution
Whereas, thousands of armed white men, some deputized by local law enforcement, descended on the Greenwood District the next day and less than 24 hours later, burned to the ground Black Wall Street, and killed an estimated 300 people. In total, more than 1,400 homes and businesses were burned leaving nearly 10,000 people homeless and millions of dollars in damages…Continue reading.
📷 Tulsa Race Massacre Photos
See photos of the Tulsa Race Massacre on the Tulsa Historical Society and Museum website.
📐 3D model of What the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot Destroyed
A century ago, a prosperous Black neighborhood in Tulsa, Okla., perished at the hands of a violent white mob… Continue reading.
👴🏿👨🏿👧🏾 Tulsa Race Riot and Transgenerational Trauma
Her family's past is marked by the massacre, which sparked what some experts in Oklahoma and across the country refer to as “transgenerational trauma,” or the concept that people who experience traumatic events can pass negative emotional and mental symptoms from the event, as well as coping behaviors, to future generations of their family… Continue reading.
🌟 Mt. Zion Glowed
Have you heard The Victims Have Names by Sarah Popejoy?
😶🌫️ What is generational trauma?
Many things get passed down through families, like heirlooms, genetic conditions, and physical characteristics. In some cases, trauma can be inherited, too…Generational trauma is exactly what it sounds like: trauma that isn’t just experienced by one person but extends from one generation to the next. Continue reading.
🎤 Tulsa Race Massacre Survivors Testify
Three Tulsa Race Massacre Survivors Viola Fletcher, Hughes Van Ellis and Lessie Benningfield Randle, testify at a House Judiciary Committee hearing to mark the centennial of the Tulsa Race Massacre. Watch on YouTube.
🗳️ Century after massacre, Blacks struggle for political voice
In the early days of Oklahoma’s statehood, an angry white mob fanned by rumors of a Black uprising burned a thriving African American community in the oil boomtown of Tulsa. Although the area was quietly rebuilt and enjoyed a renaissance in the years after the 1921 Race Massacre, the struggle among Black people over their place in the city didn’t end… Continue reading.
📜 Sleep ! sleep on, brave souls…
Read the poem, Eulogy to the Tulsa Martyrs by A.J. Smitherman, who was editor and publisher of the Tulsa Star when rioters destroyed his business.
⛪ 100 years after Tulsa Race Massacre, the damage remains
On a recent Sunday, Ernestine Alpha Gibbs returned to Vernon African Methodist Episcopal Church. Not her body. She had left this Earth 18 years ago, at age 100. But on this day, three generations of her family brought Ernestine’s keepsakes back to this place which meant so much to her. A place that was, like their matriarch, a survivor of a long-ago atrocity… Continue reading.
🖍️ Illustrations of the Massacre of Black Wall Street
If you bury something long enough it can be difficult to unearth. Continue reading.
🗓️ Tulsa 100 Years Later
“…But all that prosperity vanished on the night of May 31, when a mob of white men — including some in law enforcement—rampaged through the neighborhood. They were inflamed by a false report of a Black teen sexually assaulting of a white teen, and furious that Greenwood's Black veterans had taken up arms to prevent the boy from being lynched…” Continue reading.
🔥 Fire in Little Africa
A multimedia hip-hop project commemorating the 1921 massacre of Tulsa’s Greenwood neighborhood known as Black Wall Street.
Greenwood, 1921: One of the worst race massacres in American history
In 1921, a thriving Black neighborhood in Tulsa, Oklahoma, burned, leaving hundreds dead. Continue reading.
🌹 Flanders Fields
“Healing begins where the wound was made.” — Alice Walker, The Way Forward Is With A Broken Heart