Oklahoma History

“This is nothing but anti-Black racism,” said the lead attorney for the Freedmen descendants.

The commission has been playing up the planned festivities in Tulsa to mark 100 years of the historic road.

As crews hope to uncover more evidence of massacre victims at Oaklawn Cemetery, potential mass grave sites elsewhere in Tulsa could prove more difficult.

“It’s not just the home, but it’s what the home represents,” said Deon Osborne, one of the two campaign organizers. The GoFundMe page has a hefty $1 million goal.

Legislation to designate the site of the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 as a national monument breezed through the Senate last month, but its path through the House is less certain.

The 1921 Tulsa race riots began after a Black man was accused of assaulting a white woman. The case was later dismissed in court, but historians estimate that up to 300 people died during the riots.

Catholic Church leaders launched the Oklahoma Catholic Native Schools Project to expand their understanding of Indigenous students’ experiences at Catholic-run boarding schools from 1880-1965.

Museum Confidential: Season 8, Episode 13.

Some worry House Bill 1775 deters schools from covering Osage murders

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