Book and Media Club (BAM!)

We'll be discussing the Tulsa massacre of 1921. Read, watch, or listen whichever works best for you, or come with whatever knowledge you already have. Media recommendations to check out:

Documentaries (https://www.npr.org/2021/05/30/1000923192/3-documentaries-you-should-watch-about-the-tulsa-race-massacre)

• Tulsa Burning: The 1921 Race Massacre, https://www.history.com/specials/tulsa-burning-the-1921-race-massacre (History Channel)
• Tulsa: The Fire and the Forgotten, https://www.pbs.org/show/tulsa-fire-and-forgotten/ (PBS)
• Dreamland: The Burning of Black Wallstreet, https://www.cnn.com/shows/dreamland-cnn-films (CNN)

Books (summaries here https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2021/05/27/1000983483/code-switchs-recommended-tulsa-reads)

• Tulsa 1921: Reporting a Massacre by Randy Krehbiel
• The Ground Breaking: An American City and Its Search for Justice by Scott Ellsworth
• Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre by Carol Boston Weatherford and Floyd Cooper
• Magic City by Jewell Parker Rhodes
• The Victory of Greenwood by Carlos Moreno
• An Impulse to Keep by the Greenwood Art Project
• Opal's Greenwood Oasis by Najah Amatullah-Hylton and Qurash Ali-Lansana and illustrated by Skip Hill

Other media

• National Geographic article in May 2021 magazine
• New York Times interactive feature, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/05/24/us/tulsa-race-massacre.html?referringSource=articleShar
• NPR visits one family of massacre descendants, https://www.npr.org/2021/05/24/998683497/a-century-after-the-race-massacre-tulsa-confronts-its-bloody-past
• The Washington Post article on the growing movement for reparations for Greenwood residents, https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/01/17/tulsa-massacre-greenwood-black-wall-street-gentrification/
• The Black Wall Street Times article related to banning Critical Race Theory from being taught K-12, https://theblackwallsttimes.com/2021/05/13/the-gop-fears-educating-students-on-systemic-racism-and-its-effects/