Episode 3: Take Me Back To Coweta Town
Atkins belonged to Coweta Town, an ancient tribal town that was relocated to Indian Territory when he was a young child.
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Russell Cobb
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Ep. 2: The Heiress & Her Mythical Oil Fortune
In January 1881, a new student named Minnie Atkins arrived at Pennsylvania's Carlisle Indian Industrial School.
Russell Cobb
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Ep. 1: Stumbling Upon A Forgotten Crime in the Oil Capital of the World
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
Randy Hopkins
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High School Football 1921: Return of the Hornets
By Randy Hopkins Courtesy of Tulsa Booker T. Washington High School. In the fall of 1921, students began returning to Tulsa, Oklahoma's...
Russell Cobb
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"All Crooks at Tulsa" The Myth of Tommy Atkins & The Enduring Legacy Of An Oil Capital Fraud
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.
Lee Roy Chapman
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The Strange Love of Dr. Billy James Hargis
The FBI had cause to be concerned. Hargis’ tirades mirrored those from any number of early 20th century Ku Klux Klan pamphlets.
Lee Roy Chapman
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The Nightmare of Dreamland: Tate Brady and The Tulsa Outrage
The seventeen men were terrified, and with good reason. They stood shivering in the November midnight air...
Fraser Kastner
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Monumental Malice
In September of 1921, a group of influential Tulsans formed the Tulsa Association of Pioneers to commemorate the founders of their city.
Randy Hopkins
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An Open Letter to the Tulsa City Council
Once the Centennial was over and a single body with bullet holes was discovered in Oaklawn in late June 2021, things changed.
Randy Hopkins
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Racing to the Precipice: Tulsa's Last Lynching
Pandemonium was loosed when the body finally dropped. The guards relaxed their grip and a mad dash ensued.
Randy Hopkins
Aug 22, 202366 min read
Birthday of the Klan: The Tulsa Outrage of 1917
On November 10, 1917, a birth announcement for the “Modern Ku Klux Klan” appeared in a front-page headline of the Tulsa Daily World.
Randy Hopkins
Aug 22, 202323 min read
The Plot to Kill "Diamond Dick Rowland" and the Tulsa Race Massacre - Part Three
May 31, 1921 Tulsa police officials “feared the explosive combination of forces” resulting from the news of Diamond Dick Rowland’s arrest.
Randy Hopkins
Aug 22, 202328 min read
The Plot to Kill "Diamond Dick Rowland" and the Tulsa Race Massacre - Part Two
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.
Randy Hopkins
Aug 22, 202334 min read
The Plot to Kill "Diamond Dick Rowland" & The Tulsa Race Massacre - Part 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
Randy Hopkins
Aug 22, 202329 min read
Echo of History: The City of Tulsa’s Mass Graves Debacle
On the morning of July 30, 2021, an iron fence and locked gates divided two groups of Tulsans at the City-owned Oaklawn Cemetery.
Randy Hopkins
Aug 22, 20239 min read
Mask of Atonement: The Plan to Rebuild the Homes of Greenwood
The Greenwood rebuilding “plan” was a major feature of the second full day of national news coverage of the then-called Tulsa Race Riot.
Randy Hopkins
Aug 22, 202315 min read
Recovering History: The Freeing of Dick Roland
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.
John Neal
Aug 22, 202318 min read
"Move The Negroes Out" The Destruction of the Historically Black Neighborhood in Sand Springs, OK
This Area A, the Southside Addition, was created as a segregated place of residency by the town founder in 1911.
Randy Hopkins
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Alias: James Jones and "Diamond Dick" Rowland
Learn about James Jones, better known as "Diamond Dick" Rowland, the teenager at the center of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.
Steve Gerkin
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J.B. Stradford: Carnage Without Death
by Steve Gerkin J.B. Stradford We will never understand. How could we allow the racial brutality of slavery, the lynching of Blacks as...
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