Annotated bibliography
"A Look at Families' Reactions to Police-Related Deaths." New York Times, April 28, 2015, U.S. sec. Accessed July 15, 2015. http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/04/28/us/ap-us-police-interactions-family-vignettes.html?_r=0.
This piece reports the reactions of six families of high profile deaths of minority boys and men at the hands of police around the country. Their public grief and wishes are varied and moving. They echo some themes of post-riot Tulsa/Greenwood.
Adams, Beau. "Justice for All: Attorney Dan Smolen Takes the System to Court." The Tulsa Voice, April 1, 2015. Accessed May 12, 2015. http://www.thetulsavoice.com/April-B-2015/Justice-for-all/.
I'll encourage my students to read this insightful online interview with Dan Smolen, the attorney for family of Eric Harris.
"African-American Settlement (1836-1945)." Preservationcommission@cityoftulsa.org. Accessed July 28, 2015. http://tulsapreservationcommission.org/tulsagoohistory/african-americans/. A source for Oklahoma state history with some unique perspsectives.
Alsup, Janet. "Teaching Literature in an Age of Text Complexity." Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy 57, no. 3 (2013): 181-84.
Askew, Rilla. "A Fictional Account of the Tulsa Oil Industry and Racially Charged Atmosphere Leading up to the Riot in 1921. It's a Good Read Regardless of Whether It Might Be Used in the Classroom." In Fire in Beulah. New York: Penguin Books, 2002.
Anastasia Tolbert reads her poem "What to Tell My Sons After Trayvon Martin."
http://kuow.org/post/poet-anastacia-tolbert-what-tell-my-sons-after-trayvon-martin.
Beautiful and very relevant to my black male students and their peers.
Baldwin, James. "A Report from Occupied Territory." The Nation, July 10, 1966.
Baldwin's essay profoundly links events of 1921 to today. He discusses his
Harlem as occupied territory where lawlessness among authorities was similar to that in the early stages of the Tulsa riot existed.
Branstetter, Ziva. "Tulsa County Reserve Deputy Bought Cars, Equipment for Undercover Unit." Tulsa World, April 14, 2015, Local sec.
Brophy, Alfred L. Reconstructing the Dreamland: The Tulsa Riot of 1921 : Race, Reparations, and Reconcilation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
This book covers the riot and conditions before and after, including the challenge of reparations. It contains A.J. Smitherman's poem "Thinking He Can Whip the World." It includes other Smitherman poems about the event, as well.
Coates, Ta-Nehisi. "The Case for Reparations." The Atlantic Monthly, June 1, 2014.
Coates includes the Tulsa Race Riot in his arguments for reparations.
Ellsworth, Scott. Death in a Promised Land: The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1982.
Probably the most respeced historical account. His page notes at the end are
interesting and informative. It has some good photos, as well.
Gates, Eddie Faye. Riot on Greenwood: The Total Destruction of Black Wall Street, 1921. Austin: Sunbelt Eakin Presss, 2003.
A collection of accounts and stories from survivors, their descendants, and white observers. Written by a local historian who knew many of these people, it is very conversational and intimate.
Gerkin, Steve. "First Charged, Last Freed." This Land Press, March 20, 2014, Magazine sec. Accessed July 12, 2015. http://thislandpress.com/03/20/2014/first-charged-last-freed/?read=complete.
The author has spent the last few years doing research to look into remaining mysteries and unanswered questions from the riot.
Johnson, Hannibal. "The All-Black Towns in Oklahoma." Hannibaljohnson.com. December 31, 2004. Accessed July 28, 2015.
Hannibal Johnson is a local attorney and historian, specializing in the history of Greenwood. He is an advocate for race riot education. His books and articles are great resources not only for the '21 riot but for local history in general.
Johnson, Hannibal B. Black Wall Street from Riot to Renaissance in Tulsa's Historic Greenwood District. Austin, Tex.: Eakin Press, 1998.
A well-known and oft-used source of the history of the massacre. See above entry.
Johnson, Hannibal B. Images of America: Tulsa's Greenwood District. Charleston: Arcadia Publishing, 2014.
Excellent set of photographs of the Greenwood district from before and after the 1921 event.
Mosle, Sara. "What Should Children Read?" New York Times, November 22, 2012, The Opinion Pages sec. Accessed May 8, 2015. http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/22/what-should-children-read/?_r=0.
Presented at our first seminar meeting, this article looks at the vagaries of poorly
chosen and used informational texts to satisfy CCSS.
Myers, Anna. Tulsa Burning. New York: Walker, 2002.
A fictional account of the Tulsa riot appropriate for elementary students. Its use would be for my very lowest readers.
Parrish, Mary E. Jones. Race Riot 1921: Events of the Tulsa Disaster. Tulsa, Oklahoma: Out on a Limb Publishing, 1998.
Parrish was present during the riot and was hired as a reporter soon after. She gives her account, supplemented with other witness accounts, photographs, and copies of other primary documents.
Rogers-Adkinson, Diana, Kristine Melloy, Shannon Stuart, Lynn Fletcher, and Claudia Rinaldi. "Reading And Written Language Competency Of Incarcerated Youth." Reading & Writing Quarterly 24, no. 2, 197-218. Accessed July 11, 2012. Reading and Writing Quarterly 24, no. 2 (2008): 197-218. http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=a61990b2-f3db-4e22-8dcd-b345beb74c80@sessionmgr12&vid=8&hid=7.
This research has served me well for the last three years.
Taylor, Kate. "English Class in Common Core Era: 'Tom Sawyer' and Court Opinions." New York Times, June 19, 2015, New York/Region sec.
Wallace-Wells, Benjamin. "The Hard Truths of Ta'Nehisi Coates." New York Magazine, July 1, 2015.
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