Resources
Bibliography for Teachers
These resources on the Tulsa Race Riot were the most helpful covering the essentials and putting this unit together.
Ellsworth, Scott. Death in a Promised Land: The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1992.
Gates, Eddie Faye. Riot on Greenwood: The Total Destruction of Black Wall Street, 1921. 2nd ed. Austin, Texas: Sunbelt Eakin Press, 2003.
Hirsch, James. Riot and Remembrance. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2002.
Johnson, Hannibal B. Black Wall Street: From Riot to Renaissance in Tulsa's Historic Greenwood District. Austin, Texas: Eakin Press, 1998.
Madigan, Tim. The Burning: Massacre, Destruction, and the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921. New York: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Griffin, 2003.
Oklahoma Commission to Study the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921. Tulsa Race Riot: A Report. Oklahoma City: The Commission, 2001.
Parrish, Mary E. Jones. Race Riot 1921: Events of the Tulsa Disaster. Rev. ed. Tulsa, Oklahoma: Out on a Limb Pub, 1998.
Rucker, Walter C., and James N. Upton. Encyclopedia of American race riots. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2007.
Tulsa Race Riot of 1921. Tulsa City-County Library. http://www.tulsalibrary.org/aarc/riot/riot.php (accessed July 18, 2011).
Tulsa Race Riot. Greenwood Cultural Center. http://www.greenwoodculturalcenter.com/ (accessed July 18, 2011).
These videos on the riot are great for student viewing and discussion of the events surrounding the riot.
Before they Die Survivors of the Tulsa Race Riot 1921. 1 videodisc (94 min.). Directed by Denise J. Clement, John Rogers, Steven J. Toll, et al. Los Angeles: Mportant Films, 2008.
The Night Tulsa Burned. Directed by Robb Weller, Gary H. Grossman, Weller/Grossman Productions, Arts and Entertainment Network, New Video Group and History Channel (Television network). New York: A & E Television Networks: Distributed in the U.S. by New Video Group, 1999.
Terror in Tulsa. CN8 in association with FullMind Creative. Bordentown, New Jersey: FullMind Creative, 2008.
These are a few resources for teachers who wanting to teach primary source document analysis. These sites include great document and photo analysis student worksheets.
Binns, Stephen. Every Picture Has a Story. Smithsonian Education. http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/images/educators/lesson_plan/every_picture/every_picture.pdf (accessed July 31, 2011).
Teaching With Documents. National Archives and Records Administration. http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/ (accessed July 31, 2011).
Here are a few websites about using Ekphrastic poetry in the classroom.
Cox, Anne Kelly. Perspectives in Writing Ekphrastic Poetry. ReadWriteThink. http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson1093/PerspectivesinWritingEkphrastic.pdf (accessed July 31, 2011).
Ekphrastic Poetry Lesson. Smithsonian American Art Museum. http://americanart.si.edu/education/pdf/Ekphrastic_Poetry_Lesson.pdf (accessed July 31, 2011).
Rilke, Rainer Maria. Ekphrasis: Poetry Confronting Art. Poets.org. http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/5918 (accessed July 31, 2011).
Reading List for Students
This fictional novel book is written on a 4 th or 5 th grade reading level, so it is accessible to most middle and high school students.
Myers, Anna. Tulsa burning. New York: Walker, 2002.
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