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GREENWOOD POST-1921

Greenwood Post 1921: Road to the Centennial

READINGS – Books/Journals/Dissertations

Baehler, Joel Edward
2012. “Organizing the ‘Living Dead’: Civil Rights in Oklahoma City and Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1954–1964.” Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation. Stillwater, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State University.

Bowens, DeAunderia N.
2011. “Unsettled Accounts: Political Responses to Past Racial Violence in 20th Century America.” Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation. Ann Arbor, Michigan, University of Michigan.

Cremin, Pat
1971. “Greenwood is Fading.” Oklahoma Impact Magazine, (4): 3-5.

Evans, Camille
2014. “Interpreting the Unimaginable: Memorialization in the Sooner State.” Unpublished Master’s Thesis. Stillwater, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State University.

Nobles, Melissa
2008. “The Politics of Official Apologies.” New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
2008. “Shades of Citizenship: Race and the Census in Modern Politics.” Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

Ogletree, Charles J.
2003. “Tulsa Reparations: The Survivors’ Story.” Boston College Third World Law Journal 24(1): 13-30.
2003. “The Current Reparations Debate.” UC Davis Law Review (36)5: 1051-1072.

Rothstein, Richard
2017. “The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How our Government Segregated America.” New York, NY: Liveright Publishing.

Shackel, Paul
2003. “Memory in Black and White: Commemoration and the Post-Bellum Landscape.” Lanham, MD: Altamira Press.

Skipper, Jodi
2015. “Saving St. Paul: Race, Development, and Heritage Politics in Dallas, Texas.” The Black Scholar: Journal of Black Studies and Research 45 (3): 24–38.

Starzmann, Maria T. and John R. Roby
2016. “Excavating Memory: Sites of Remembering and Forgetting.” Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida.

Trekell, Ronald L. 
1989. “History of the Tulsa Police Department, 1882 – 1990.” Tulsa, OK: The Department.

Ward, Geoff
2012. “The Black Child-Savers: Racial Democracy and Juvenile Justice.” Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

Warner, Ross 
1968. “Oklahoma Boy: An Autobiography.” Tulsa, OK: Independently Published.


REPORTS – Meetings/Preservation/Reconciliation Efforts

“Oil Capital Historic District.” Tulsa Preservation Commission.

Johnson, Hannibal
2003. NCCJ Racial Reconciliation Project Consultant. Racial Reconciliation Project: Final Report. Tulsa, OK: National Conference for Community and Justice, Tulsa Region.

Human Rights Watch
2020. “The Case for Reparations in Tulsa, Oklahoma: A Human Rights Argument. May 29, 2020.

Ogletree, Charles and McDougall, Gay J.
2005. “Petition Alleging Violations of the Human Rights of John Melvin Alexander et al. by the United States of America.” October 26, 2005.