Atkins belonged to Coweta Town, an ancient tribal town that was relocated to Indian Territory when he was a young child.

In January 1881, a new student named Minnie Atkins arrived at Pennsylvania's Carlisle Indian Industrial School.

I was not expecting to find lost treasure as I shifted through a pile of paperwork. But there was one thing that caught my eye: a series of

By Randy Hopkins Courtesy of Tulsa Booker T. Washington High School. In the fall of 1921, students began returning to Tulsa, Oklahoma's...

Tommy was a Muscogee boy whose land was worth many millions of dollars in 1914. The only problem was that he may have never existed.

The FBI had cause to be concerned. Hargis’ tirades mirrored those from any number of early 20th century Ku Klux Klan pamphlets.

The seventeen men were terrified, and with good reason. They stood shivering in the November midnight air...

In September of 1921, a group of influential Tulsans formed the Tulsa Association of Pioneers to commemorate the founders of their city.

Once the Centennial was over and a single body with bullet holes was discovered in Oaklawn in late June 2021, things changed.

Pandemonium was loosed when the body finally dropped. The guards relaxed their grip and a mad dash ensued.

On November 10, 1917, a birth announcement for the “Modern Ku Klux Klan” appeared in a front-page headline of the Tulsa Daily World.

May 31, 1921 Tulsa police officials “feared the explosive combination of forces” resulting from the news of Diamond Dick Rowland’s arrest.

Claiming them to be dens of iniquity, the police had long cast a suspicious eye on negro rooming houses. The Rowland family ran a large one.

On Tuesday afternoon, May 31, 1921, a newspaper article titled “Nab Negro for Attacking Girl In an Elevator” hit the streets of downtown Tu

On the morning of July 30, 2021, an iron fence and locked gates divided two groups of Tulsans at the City-owned Oaklawn Cemetery.

The Greenwood rebuilding “plan” was a major feature of the second full day of national news coverage of the then-called Tulsa Race Riot.

There's no listing for this prisoner during June or July. This supports claims that Roland was removed from the jail soon after his arrival.

This Area A, the Southside Addition, was created as a segregated place of residency by the town founder in 1911.

Learn about James Jones, better known as "Diamond Dick" Rowland, the teenager at the center of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.

by Steve Gerkin J.B. Stradford We will never understand. How could we allow the racial brutality of slavery, the lynching of Blacks as...