1921 Special

Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Coverage: Educating For The Future

News 9 A bright light is now shining on a dark part of Oklahoma History. And that is especially true for school children who are now required to learn about the massacre.

Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Coverage: Greenwood Tells The Story Of Tulsa Race Massacre

News 9 The Greenwood Rising History Center will tell the story of the Tulsa Race Massacre. The planning and constructing of the center has been a huge undertaking, but they've had the assistance of those who know something about telling the story of an Oklahoma tragedy.

Telling The Story Of The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Through Artifacts, Historical Documents

News 9 Containing more than 36,000 artifacts, the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) documents every aspect of African American life, history, and culture. Among the artifacts are a select few on the museum's third floor that help tell the story of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre and its aftermath.

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1921 Tulsa Race Massacre In The National Spotlight Through Pop Culture

News 9 What was once hidden from history is now in a national spotlight. TV and film producers, artists, and celebrities are letting the world know about the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.

1921 Tulsa Race Massacre In The National Spotlight Through Pop Culture

News 9 What was once hidden from history is now in a national spotlight. TV and film producers, artists, and celebrities are letting the world know about the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.

Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Coverage: The Search For Mass Graves

News 9 100 years after the Tulsa Race Massacre, descendants, the city, archeologists, historians, and activists are still working to uncover truths about where the victims are. Archeologists discovered a mass grave at Oaklawn Cemetery in October 2020.

Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Coverage: The Search For Mass Graves

Investigating The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre 100 Years Later

News 9 No one was ever brought to justice in connection with the deaths in Greenwood. Rumors of a coverup involving mass graves lingered for years. In 2018, the City of Tulsa began investigating those rumors. Then in 2020, archeologists found an unmarked grave with at least 12 bodies at a site many had long suspected: Oaklawn Cemetery. Could these murders ever be solved 100 years later? Oklahoma's Own talked with a man who worked 450 murder cases about what it would take. And looks at were the sear

Investigating The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre 100 Years Later

Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Coverage: Inside The Greenwood Rising Museum

News 9 Images from inside Greenwood Rising show an exhibit that takes visitors from the glory of Greenwood’s early days to the horror of the massacre, and the despair and destruction. The museum itself is still under construction, and it stretches across part of a block at Greenwood and Archer.

Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Coverage: Inside The Greenwood Rising Museum

Remembering The 1921 Race Massacre: Bringing Tulsa’s Hidden Past To Light

News 9 It has been called “America’s Most Beautiful City.” It has hosted the International Petroleum Expo, and for years was known as the “Oil Capitol of the World.” But there is a part of Tulsa’s past that had been hidden; a secret many wanted to keep buried.

Remembering The 1921 Race Massacre: Bringing Tulsa’s Hidden Past To Light

Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Coverage: A Familiar History In North Carolina

News 9 As Tulsa approaches the 100-year commemoration of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, a town in North Carolina continues to face the reality of its past, too.

Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Coverage: A Familiar History In North Carolina

News 9 As Tulsa approaches the 100-year commemoration of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, a town in North Carolina continues to face the reality of its past, too.

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Remembering The Elaine, Arkansas Massacre

News 9 Elaine, Arkansas is in the Mississippi Delta. The town of a few hundred people that is not far from the river is surrounded by rich farmland; but to this day, it is shrouded in a tragic history.

Remembering The Elaine, Arkansas Massacre

Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Coverage: Death And Destruction In Greenwood

News 9 It all started inside an elevator at what was the Drexel Building on Main Street in Tulsa. We will never know exactly what happened, but we do know an African American man by the name of Dick Rowland possibly tripped into, or stepped on, the elevator operator Sarah Page.

Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Coverage: Death And Destruction In Greenwood

Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Coverage: The Rise Of Black Wall Street

News 9 To recognize the magnitude of what happened 100 years ago with the Tulsa Race Massacre, you need to understand the importance of the Greenwood area.

Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Coverage: The Rise Of Black Wall Street

News 9 To recognize the magnitude of what happened 100 years ago with the Tulsa Race Massacre, you need to understand the importance of the Greenwood area.

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1921 Special

Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Coverage: Educating For The Future

Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Coverage: Greenwood Tells The Story Of Tulsa Race Massacre

Little Rock, Birmingham Confront Difficult Racial Pasts

KW Rising From Tragedy & Rebuilding Black Wall Street

Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Coverage: Pathways To Reconciliation

Telling The Story Of The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Through Artifacts, Historical Documents

1921 Tulsa Race Massacre In The National Spotlight Through Pop Culture

1921 Tulsa Race Massacre In The National Spotlight Through Pop Culture

Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Coverage: The Search For Mass Graves

Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Coverage: The Search For Mass Graves

Investigating The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre 100 Years Later

Investigating The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre 100 Years Later

Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Coverage: Inside The Greenwood Rising Museum

Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Coverage: Inside The Greenwood Rising Museum

Remembering The 1921 Race Massacre: Bringing Tulsa’s Hidden Past To Light

Remembering The 1921 Race Massacre: Bringing Tulsa’s Hidden Past To Light

Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Coverage: A Familiar History In North Carolina

Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Coverage: A Familiar History In North Carolina

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Remembering The Elaine, Arkansas Massacre

Remembering The Elaine, Arkansas Massacre

Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Coverage: Death And Destruction In Greenwood

Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Coverage: Death And Destruction In Greenwood

Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Coverage: The Rise Of Black Wall Street

Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Coverage: The Rise Of Black Wall Street