The Big Easy: Literary New Orleans and Intangible Heritage

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 11.04.08

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction and Rationale
  2. Content and Objectives
  3. Strategies
  4. Classroom Activities
  5. Resources
  6. Appendix A: Implementing District Standards
  7. Appendix B: Tulsa Race Riot Photographs
  8. Appendix C: Selected Tulsa Race Riot Dinner Party Roles
  9. Notes

The 1921 Tulsa Race Riot and Its Legacy: Experiencing Place as Text

Shanedra Dilese Nowell

Published September 2011

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Notes

  1. Hirsch, James. Riot and Remembrance. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2002.
  2. Gates, Eddie Faye. Riot on Greenwood: The Total Destruction of Black Wall Street, 1921. 2nd ed. Austin, Texas: Sunbelt Eakin Press, 2003, 97.
  3. Ibid.
  4. Hirsch, Riot and Remembrance, 7.
  5. PBS. "Indian Removal," http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2959.html (accessed July 18, 2011).
  6. McDonald, Bonnie. Oklahoma: Land of Contrasts. Atlanta, Georgia: Clairmont Press, 2007.
  7. Hine, Darlene C., William C. Hine, and Stanley Harrold. African-American History. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson Prentice Hall.
  8. Tulsa Race Riot, http://www.greenwoodculturalcenter.com/ (accessed July 18, 2011).
  9. Hornsby Jr., Alton. A Companion to African American History. Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishing, 2005.
  10. Johnson, Hannibal. Black Wall Street: From Riot to Renaissance in Tulsa's Historic Greenwood District. Austin, Texas: Eakin Press, 1998.
  11. Ibid., 2.
  12. Tulsa City-County Library. "Historic All-Black Towns in Oklahoma," http://www.tulsalibrary.org/aarc/towns/map.php (accessed July 18, 2011).
  13. Johnson, Black Wall Street.
  14. Ibid.
  15. Ellsworth, Scott. Death in a Promised Land: The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1992.
  16. Ibid., 8.
  17. Hirsch, Riot and Remembrance.
  18. Ellsworth, Death in a Promised Land, 9.
  19. Johnson, Black Wall Street.
  20. Hirsch, Riot and Remembrance.
  21. Johnson. Black Wall Street, 14.
  22. Hirsch, Riot and Remembrance.
  23. Johnson, Black Wall Street.
  24. Parish, Mary. Events of the Tulsa Disaster. Tulsa, Oklahoma: John Hope Franklin Center for Reconciliation, 2009.
  25. Hirsch, Riot and Remembrance.
  26. Johnson, Black Wall Street, 8.
  27. Parish, Events of the Tulsa Disaster.
  28. Tatum, Beverly Daniel. "It's not so Black & White," Instructor-Intermediate 108 no. 5 (1999): 29-31.
  29. "Final Report of the Grand Jury on the Tulsa Race Riot, June 25, 1921," in Encyclopedia of American race riots, edited by Walter Rucker and James Nathaniel Upton (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press), 771-772.
  30. Bloome, David and Egan-Robertson, Ann, "The Social Construction of Intertextuality in Classroom Reading and Writing Lessons," Reading Research Quarterly, 28 no. 4 (1993): 304-333.
  31. Oklahoma Commission to Study the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921. Tulsa Race Riot: A Report. Oklahoma City: The Commission, 2001.
  32. Gates, Riot on Greenwood, 97.
  33. 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.
  34. Terror in Tulsa. CN8 in association with FullMind Creative. Bordentown, New Jersey: FullMind Creative, 2008.
  35. Hirsch, Riot and Remembrance.
  36. Olds, Sharon. Strike Sparks: Selected Poems, 1980-2002. Random House Digital, 2004.
  37. Tulsa Race Riot, http://www.greenwoodculturalcenter.com/ (accessed July 18, 2011).
  38. Greenwood Cultural Center. Greenwood Cultural Center: Jewel in the Crown. Virginia Beach, Virginia: Donning Company Publishers, 2008.
  39. Ellsworth, Death in the Promised Land, 48.
  40. Ibid., 48.
  41. 1921 Tulsa Race Riot: Tulsa Tribune newspaper front page. Tulsa, 1921. Photograph. From Tulsa City-County Library, Courtesy of Beryl Ford Collection/Rotary Club of Tulsa, Tulsa City-County Library, and Tulsa Historical Society. http://opac.tulsalibrary.org/record=b2173660~S27 (accessed July 18, 2011)
  42. Brophy, Alfred. "Tulsa (Oklahoma) Riot of 1921," in Encyclopedia of American race riots, edited by Walter Rucker and James Nathaniel Upton (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press), 645-654.
  43. Ellsworth, Death in the Promised Land.
  44. Ibid.
  45. Hine et al., African American History.
  46. Brophy, "Tulsa (Oklahoma) Riot," in Encyclopedia.
  47. McDonald, Oklahoma: Land of Contrasts.
  48. Ellsworth, Death in the Promised Land.
  49. McDonald, Oklahoma: Land of Contrasts.
  50. Young, Cory. "Markers serve as reminder of Black Wall Street." Tulsa World, December 10, 2003. http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?articleID=031210_Co_zm1_marke (accessed July 18, 2011).
  51. Greenwood Cultural Center. Greenwood Cultural Center.
  52. Oklahoma Commission to Study the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921. Tulsa Race Riot.
  53. Ibid.
  54. Gates, Riot on Greenwood.
  55. John Hope Franklin Reconciliation Park. 2009. http://www.jhfcenter.org/reconciliation-park/ (accessed June 29, 2011)
  56. Hirsch, Riot and Remembrance.
  57. Greenwood Cultural Center. Greenwood Cultural Center: Jewel in the Crown.
  58. Hirsch, Riot and Remembrance.
  59. Gates, Riot on Greenwood.
  60. Krehbiel, Randy. "Prom-goer swings back into time." Tulsa World, April 13, 2000. http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?no=subj&articleid=L041300088&archive=yes
  61. Freire, Paulo. Pedagogy of the oppressed. 30th anniversary ed. New York: Continuum, 2000.
  62. Sanchez, Rebecca M. "Community as a participatory foundation in culturally conscientious classrooms." Multicultural Education 15, no. 1 (2007): 50.
  63. Jenkins, Henry. Confronting the challenges of participatory culture: media education for the 21st century. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2009.
  64. Foundation for the National Archives. Document Analysis with Students. DocsTeach. http://docsteach.org/resources (accessed July 31, 2011).
  65. Ibid.
  66. National Writing Project and Ralph Nagin. Because Writing Matters: Improving Student Writing in Our Schools. San Francisco, California: Jossey-Bass.
  67. Coughlin, Patricia. "Making Field Trips Count: Collaborating for Meaningful Experiences." The Social Studies 101 (2010): 200-210.
  68. Aronson, Elliot . The Jigsaw Classroom in 10 Easy Steps. The Jigsaw Classroom: A Cooperative Learning Technique. http://www.jigsaw.org/steps.htm (accessed July 31, 2011).
  69. Soapstone template. http://www.edmondschools.net/Portals/0/docs/SOAPStoneTemplate.pdf (accessed July 31, 2011).
  70. Teaching With Documents. National Archives and Records Administration. http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/worksheets/written_document_analysis_worksheet.pdf (accessed July 31, 2011).
  71. Smoke from fires. Tulsa, 1921. Photograph. From Tulsa City-County Library, Courtesy of Beryl Ford Collection/Rotary Club of Tulsa, Tulsa City-County Library, and Tulsa Historical Society, http://opac.tulsalibrary.org/record=b2173663~S27 (accessed July 18, 2011).
  72. Captured Men. Tulsa, 1921. Photograph. From Tulsa City-County Library, Courtesy of Beryl Ford Collection/Rotary Club of Tulsa, Tulsa City-County Library, and Tulsa Historical Society. http://opac.tulsalibrary.org/record=b2173659~S27 (accessed July 18, 2011).
  73. 1921 Tulsa Race Riot: man standing near debris. Tulsa, 1921. Photograph. From Tulsa City-County Library, Courtesy of Beryl Ford Collection/Rotary Club of Tulsa, Tulsa City-County Library, and Tulsa Historical Society. http://opac.tulsalibrary.org/record=b2173658~S27 (accessed July 18, 2011).
  74. Unidentified Individuals. Tulsa, 1921. Photograph. From Tulsa City-County Library, Courtesy of Beryl Ford Collection/Rotary Club of Tulsa, Tulsa City-County Library, and Tulsa Historical Society. http://opac.tulsalibrary.org/record=b2173666~S27 (accessed July 18, 2011).
  75. 1921 Tulsa Race Riot: Tulsa World newspaper front page. Tulsa, 1921. Photograph. From Tulsa City-County Library, Courtesy of Beryl Ford Collection/Rotary Club of Tulsa, Tulsa City-County Library, and Tulsa Historical Society. http://opac.tulsalibrary.org/record=b2173656~S27 (accessed July 18, 2011).

Comments:

Earnest Freeman

June 18, 2015 at 7:47 pm

Tulsa 1921

This is a great article. Thank you for posting this information as it keeps the history of the event alive and relevant for historians and society.

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