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Use this guide to search the NMAAHC collection for objects relating to Tulsa and the Tulsa Race Massacre. African Americans in Oklahoma and the History of Greenwood. The Greenwood District of Tulsa was one of more than 50 all-Black settlements formed throughout Oklahoma between 1865 and 1920.
The museum’s Tulsa and Black Oklahoma collection now includes more than a dozen artifacts, approximately 425 photographs and some 93 archival and ephemeral documents, along with 13 films.
31 maj 2012 · The 1921 Attack on Greenwood was one of the most significant events in Tulsa’s history. Following World War I, Tulsa was recognized nationally for its affluent African American community known as the Greenwood District.
28 maj 2021 · An archival photo shows Tulsa’s Greenwood neighborhood before 1921, when a white mob destroyed dozens of buildings and killed an estimated 300 people.
30 maj 2022 · A copy of the Black Dispatch is pictured at the Greenwood Rising Black Wall Street History Center in Tulsa on Saturday, May 7, 2022.
20 kwi 2021 · The 1921 massacre in Tulsa was ignited by a news story—later disproven—that a Black man had assaulted a white woman in an elevator. But it was more fundamentally fueled by simmering resentment over the wealth of Greenwood’s residents.
