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
- 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)
- 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
- 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)