Tulsa Race Massacre - 1921

Weekly African-American newspaper published in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma that includes local, territorial, and national news along with advertising.

This is a digitized copy of the book by Mary E. Jones Parrish (1922) titled 'Events of the Tulsa Disaster.'

This article features an early account of the Tulsa Race Massacre as printed in the Tulsa World.

Provides digitized documents and photographs related to the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921.

"A manuscript titled “The Tulsa Race Riot and Three of Its Victims” by B. C. Franklin. The unpublished manuscript consists of ten pages written in black type on yellowed paper. It was written ten years after the Tulsa Riots on August 22, 1931 and recounts the events of the Tulsa Riot as witnessed by the author. "

This site is being developed by I. Marc Carlson, the Librarian of Special Collections at the McFarlin Library, The University of Tulsa. He is a historical researcher and a librarian. He has been researching the Tulsa Race Riot since 1989. The material on this site is either public domain or copyrighted to I. Marc Carlson. The Public Domain items will be identified as such.

Companion to the book by Jay JayWilson and Ron Wallace. Using rare photographs and interviews with survivors, eyewitnessess and historian Ed Wheeler, this documentary relates the events leading up to the 1921 Tulsa Race Riots and examines the reasons for the official suppression of the story.

In 1999, 60 Minutes correspondent Bob Simon reported on the 1921 Greenwood massacre, one of the country's worst incident of racial violence.

CNN's Sara Sidner speaks with a survivor of the massacre at "Black Wall Street" in Tulsa, Oklahoma, about the devastating chapter of American history.

White mobs destroyed "Black Wall Street" in 1921. But where are the victims' bodies?

Emory Associate Professor of African American Studies, Carol Anderson, discusses some of the lesser know instances of racial prejudice in a series of videos entitled - "THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF THE QUEST FOR CIVIL RIGHTS".

In 1921, a thriving black neighborhood in Tulsa, Oklahoma, burned, leaving hundreds dead. Scott Pelley reports.