The DREAMLAND Experience

10 North Greenwood Avenue,Tulsa OK 74120

07 May, 2022

Description

Welcome to the DREAMLAND Experience, the history of Black Vaudeville 1890-1931 entrepreneurial minstrels who shaped American Entertainment! The Dreamland Theater was located in the Greenwood District of Tulsa and formally established in 1914. As the only Black theater in Tulsa it served African American audiences beginning in 1905 and showed live vaudevillian musical and theatrical revues as well as silent films until the massacre of 1921. It seated 750 persons running up to five shows a day and was operated by Loula Williams, wife of Jon Williams the prominent community activist, machinist, and entrepreneur. During the massacre of 1921, the Dreamland Theater gathered community members to organize Greenwood Negro Leagues (medicine, education, industry) to fight during the pillaging and chaos, eventually succumbing may first to the worst act of domestic terror in America the arson of Tulsa’s Greenwood Black Wall Street Tulsa Oklahoma America. In the black resurgence of 1922 that followed Mrs. Williams went by train to the Lowes Theatrical Entertainments Corporation securing the first ‘TALKIE’ motion picture projection system in Tulsa that year. NOTE: *THIS IS A TIMED AND TICKED EVENT DOUBLE CHECK YOUR CHOSEN RESERVATION. **FOR THE HEALTH AND SAFETY OF ALL PATRONS (masks optional). ***ONLY 25 PEOPLE WILL BE ALLOWED IN EACH 15 MIN EXPLORATION TIME IN THE EXHIBIT. ****VIP LTD T-SHIRTS WILL BE AT WILL CALL / PLEASE BRING YOUR ID & QR CODE TICKET ****PHOTO PACKAGES WILL BE AVAILABLE ON SITE .