Search results
28 maj 2021 · In Tulsa, an ‘incredible American story’ of Black resilience is finally recognized 100 years after a racial massacre, new city initiatives shine a light on the revitalized Greenwood community.
True deliverance for the people of Greenwood, however, came from within, as documented in their own record of the massacre and its aftermath. The story of Tulsa’s Greenwood community, Events of the Tulsa Disaster was compiled by the Black stenographer Mary E. Jones Parrish and published by the Black community sometime after 1922. The book ...
Bracy shares his life story, from growing up in segregated Arkansas to becoming a trailblazer at State Farm Insurance. He discusses the Tulsa Race Massacre, the struggle for racial equality, and his push for development in Tulsa.
28 maj 2021 · Victor Luckerson writes about two under-recognized Black women, Mary E. Jones Parrish and Eddie Faye Gates, who helped document the history of the Tulsa Race Massacre.
A master plan for the city that resulted in the creation of numerous parks, along with such attractions as its oil mansions, beautiful churches, museums and rose gardens, led to Tulsa being dubbed "America's Most Beautiful City" in the 1950s.
After some spruce-up efforts with the planting of 600 roses, Tulsa's first City park officially opened on June 8, 1910. Tulsa was growing in the early 1900s and residents felt the need for open space within a town to escape the rigors of new urban life. Parks came to have a special value to citizens of the day.
Effusive joy, human connection, and group play might be rare in many corners of a screen-dominated modern society, but Gathering Place—Tulsa’s new sixty-six-acre public park along the Arkansas River—is chock-a-block with these experiences.
