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WILMINGTON/GREENWOOD MASSACRE: TULSA RACE RIOTS OF 1921
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WILMINGTON/GREENWOOD MASSACRE: TULSA RACE RIOTS OF 1921

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Grade Level Grade 11, Higher Education
Resource Type Activity, Lesson Plan

About This Lesson

ESSENTIAL QUESTION:

HOW SHOULD THE TULSA INCIDENT OF 1921 BE REMEMBERED IN HISTORY – AS A ‘MASSACRE’ OR A ‘RACE RIOT’?

OBJECTIVES:

SWBAT analyze, evaluate, source and annotate excerpted primary and secondary source complex text, videos and images on the Greenwood Massacre toward skill building for the AP United States History.

Citations:

  • Eyewitness Account of Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 – Smithsonian Magazine

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/long-lost-manuscript-contains-searing-eyewitness-account-tulsa-race-massacre-1921-180959251/

  • Tulsa Race Riot:  A Report by the Oklahoma Commission to Study the Tulsa Race Riot of 2001 – February 28, 2001 – Oklahoma Historical Society – ‘History Has No Fences’ (pgs. 22-25)

https://www.freport.pdf

  • In Tulsa, A Century-Old Massacre Still Haunts Black Wall Street – The Washington Post – September 28, 2018

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/local/wp/2018/09/28/feature/they-was-killing-black-people

  • New Research Identifies Possible Mass Graves From 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre

https:///www.npr.org/2019/12/17/789015843-new-research-identifies-possible-mass-graves-from-1921-tulsa-race-massacre

  • Oklahoma Will Require Schools to Teach 2921 Tulsa Race Massacre – February 2020

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/amp/2020/02/Oklahoma-schools-to-teach-1921-tulsa-massacre

  • White Supremacy Extremism:  The Transnational Rise of the Violent Supremacist Movement – The Soufan Center – September 2019 – Conclusion (p. 54) and Figure 1 (p. 10) and Figure 2 (p. 16)

https://thesoufancenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Report-by-The-Soufan-Center-White-Supremacy-Extremism-The-Transnational-Rise-of-The-Violent-White-Supremacist-Movement.pdf

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