Greenwood Art Project Using Tulsa Artists To Share The Story Of The 1921 Race Massacre With The World TulsaRaceMassacreAnniversary
White Americans like to lecture Black Americans about “pulling themselves up by their bootstraps” without recognizing or acknowledging white Americans’ history of cutting the straps off Black Americans’ boots.Greenwood Rising
Greenwood’s return as a vibrant, thriving community has been slow going, but it has happened. On June 2, 2021, Greenwood Rising, a state-of-the-art history center located at the heart of Tulsa’s Greenwood District honoring the legacy of Black Wall Street–a term coined by Booker T. Washington–before and after the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 will open. The museum and commemoration of the 100-year anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre will signal to the world that Greenwood has risen.
Greenwood Rising tells a powerful, beautiful story of authentic American history–warts and all–through the eyes of the people who experienced it and their descendants.... [+] Greenwood District on June 19, 2020 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, when a Union general read orders in Galveston, Texas stating all enslaved people in Texas were free according to federal law. The Greenwood Art Project is an initiative of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre Centennial Commission.
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