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Welcome to the National Museum of African American History and Culture’s Tulsa collection online. In late May 1921, the thriving African American community of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma, suffered the deadliest racial massacre in U.S. history.
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.
Search objects from the museum's online collection and explore specially curated selections.
26 maj 2021 · (Tulsa Historical Society & Museum) Bottom-The area of 127 N. Greenwood where the Dreamland Theater once stood in the Greenwood District of Tulsa, Okla on Wednesday, April 21, 2021. The area was once filled with African American owned homes and businesses that were destroy in the 1921 Race Massacre.
Oklahoma’s all-black towns epitomize the unique African-American history of the Sooner State. From the mid-nineteenth century to 1920, African-Americans established more than 50 identifiable towns and communities, some of short duration and some still existing at the turn of the 21st century.
The Promise of Oklahoma. How the push for statehood led a beacon of racial progress to oppression and violence. Artist Aaron R. Turner shaped these historic images of black Tulsa residents...
17 maj 2021 · Comparing these photos to those taken elsewhere in the United States at various lynchings, Hill sets out to document how white civilians, in many cases assisted or condoned by local and state officials, perpetuated a systematic attack on Black Tulsans -- their lives as well as their property.
