TULSA, Oklahoma - The 1921 Tulsa Race Riot Centennial Commission made several big announcements Tuesday, September 12 - including new efforts to bring race riot lessons to Oklahoma classrooms.
It also announced efforts to place Tulsa's Greenwood District on the National Registry of Historic Places.

The commission said it plans to, "leverage the rich history surrounding the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot by facilitating actions, activities, and events that commemorate and educate all citizens."

The commission also has immediate and short-term plans in place for the recognition of the 100th anniversary of the riot in 2021. State Senator Kevin Matthews told us that the state superintendent is backing the initiative and now they're talking with educators to figure out how to best roll it out into the classroom.

"Not every teacher understands the history or how to teach it, so we're looking at ways that we can teach teachers.

The commission said Rudisill Library has materials available for teachers wanting to teach about the riot.

Commission Project Manager Jamaal Dyer said it's especially important for young Tulsans to know about this dark part of the city's history.

"It makes no sense for you to live in Tulsa, be from Tulsa, go to the Tulsa Public School system or through Tulsa schools period and not have any knowledge of these events," said the Rev. Jamaal Dyer.

A new banner was unveiled listing Greenwood's original businesses, and the commission also announced plans for an arch at the corner of Greenwood and Archer welcoming you to the district.

According to the commission, the projects of the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot Centennial Commission will educate Oklahomans and Americans about the Race Riot and its impact on the state and Nation; remember its victims and survivors; and create an environment conducive to fostering sustainable entrepreneurship and heritage tourism within the Greenwood District specifically, and North Tulsa generally.

They hope to introduce some elements of the curriculum by February - Black History Month.

Film at 11.... 🤔 🤔

I think...

All this bullcrap...

Is being started by...

THE NEW...

HISTORY BOOK AUTHORS TEAMSTERS
LOCAL 1786 UNION

Will they have a class on ,white and we are ashamed of being white? Maybe reverend Al, or reverend Jesse, or Louis will be guest speakers.
Teach it as a foot note in history class. That is what it is. BTW, Mrs. O'leary's cow was white.

I dunno bout that.....


but if looking at a statue makes you sad how is learning about these riots gonna make you feel..?? 😕

and I'm not saying to remove the history books from the library or anything... if they hear about them and want to learn more so be it... are there gonna be counselors on standby the day the teach this..??

Drafter you do know the history and background surrounding the denial and suppression of information regarding this right?

yes I do... all I'm saying is this info might hurt a school kid's feelings... like the statues... 😟

They are teaching lessons about the town history that were forbidden to be taught and all information suppressed and denied for decades (literally generations) by the very people who support the statues you seem to cherish. This is a shameful part of Tulsa's history that needs sunlight so as not to repeat it.

I view this as a never forget type thing along the lines of OKC, 911, or the holocaust. It's really not similar to a Robert E. Lee statue.

One says never forget and never allow oppression. The other celebrates those that fought for oppression.

*shrug*. Things would have been much easier if we had simply treated the losers like losers in the first place. It's quite strange that we allowed the war leaders of a losing side that fought to preserve slavery to be celebrated. And at the same time we erected many of those statues we suppressed all information about this particular subject. It literally was not allowed to be taught or discussed in a public way. You figure it out.

You don't actually think he can figure it out... do you?

I'm all for teaching the history as long as it's accurate. I think the hardest part about teaching history is to get kids to realize that the beliefs and overall mentality of people in the past varied greatly depending on the time period.

So I would encourage kids to try and look at the events from all parties involved back then, then encourage them to understand the progress that's been made since.

wish I knew at what level they want to bring this in at... I can see race riots in da playground at recess if it's taught too young.. 😟

Drafter is clearly on team keep this thing quiet LOL

no... just thinking of the childrens.... when I was a kid we would been all over this.. course kung fu fighting was the style at the time...



you should ask yourself what Billy Jack would do... 😟

Seems like I heard this argument applied somewhere else... 🤔

Would you be mad if Tulsa decided to get rid of a statue of George Kimbro, Jr. or George C. McCarron?

I don't know who they are.... I guess i'd have to hear the reason why they want the statues down.. 😟

They were for slavery (I assume) and stuff, as well for kluxifying oklahoma.

they're re-naming the Brady District because of that... there was some outrage a couple years ago but the movement got it's second wind with all the other stuff going on across the country... 😟

Why would that matter?

at this point it doesn't... just stating the facts... people looked around for stuff to be outraged about and our previous politically correct President fueled the flames... 😟

The event itself is terrible.... and the evil following it.

They went decades suppressing the information to the point that the historical society etc. didn't recognize it even happened. 75 years later (1996) the government decides the series of events may have been sort of wrong and the suppression of all the information is sort of wrong......

and drafter is mad about memorializing it and remembering it and blames Obama? LOL