Oil and Blood: What Happened to Tulsa's Black Wall Street?

2001 Campus Drive,Durham NC 27705

15 November, 2021

Description

A series of presentations on race, wealth, and Tulsa–100 years after the massacre that changed everything. Please join the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity for a series of presentations on Tulsa–100 years after the massacre that destroyed the Greenwood neighborhood and stripped the city of its Black wealth. The tentative schedule for the day is as follows: 11:00am – 12:30pm – Unveiling of the forthcoming Cook Center report, “Oil and Blood: Race, Wealth, and Violence in Tulsa, Oklahoma,” detailing the Tulsa Massacre of 1921 and its aftereffects. The report is part of the series of reports from the National Assets Scorecard for Communities of Color, which has previously analyzed racial wealth disparities in Boston, Los Angeles, Miami, and Washington D.C. Coauthors Raffi E. García, Jorge Zumaeta, Lauren Russell, and William A. Darity Jr. will be in conversation with WUNC’s Lindsay Thomas. 12:45pm – 1:45pm – Undergraduates from the Fall 2021 GIRI course on Tulsa will share presentations and findings from their research. 2:00pm – 4:00pm – Reception at the Nasher Museum of Art. The Duke University Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity is an interdisciplinary research center within Trinity School of Arts and Sciences that is comprised of faculty and scholars from across Duke and a diverse international group of affiliated universities, research centers and non-governmental organizations. Its mission is to promote equity, across all domains of human interactions, through interdisciplinary research, teaching, partnerships, policy, and practice. The Cook Center seeks to employ the innovative use of new and existing data, develop human capital, incorporate stakeholder voices though civic engagement, create viable collaborations, and engender equity-driven policy and social transformation at the local, national and international levels.