Resources

We offer a collection of tools, references, and links to further explore the history of Tulsa’s Greenwood District. Here, you’ll find connections to similar projects, educational websites, and other valuable resources that support learning and research. Whether you’re a student, educator, or researcher, these materials provide opportunities to deepen your understanding of Greenwood’s legacy, archaeology, and the broader story of resilience within African American communities.

Mapping Historical Trauma (MHTT) in Tulsa Project Resources

Explore more digital resources created by MHTT Leaders to advance knowledge of the Historic Greenwood District.

ArcGIS Greenwood Archaeology Map

This webmap digitally represents the Mapping Historical Trauma in Tulsa Project, featuring layers that visualize archaeological research sites, shovel test placements, transects, features, collection areas, LiDAR outputs, highlighted sites in the Historic Greenwood District, and Sanborn maps as a base layer to illustrate the district’s evolution over time.

Greenwood Centennial Resource Collection (GCRC)

The Greenwood Centennial Resource Collection documents a series of diverse (and dispersed) sources that record histories of Tulsa’s Greenwood neighborhood.

Greenwood Archaeology Curriculum

Our curriculum provides high school students with an opportunity to explore the history and legacy of Tulsa’s Greenwood District through archaeology and storytelling.

MHTT Student Research

Explore the power of storytelling through digital maps curated by our MHTT archaeological field school students highlighting the resilience of the Historic Greenwood District using artifacts, structures, oral histories, photographs, archival documents, and cultural landscapes.

Standpipe Hill

The place to be during the time of Black Wall Street.

The Great Equalizer

Mapping Education and the Childhood Experience in Greenwood.

Mapping Greenwood

Learning history through mapping important spaces.

Dunbar Grade School

A micro history.

Objects of Resilience

From the Aftermath of the Massacre to Greenwood’s Golden Age.

The Unyielding Spirit of Greenwood

Survivance and Community Resilience.

Talks/Conferences

A Black Space Elevated on a Hill

An Archaeology of Hate and Racial Violence in Black Wall Street’s Most Affluent Neighborhood. Society for Historical Archaeology Conference. 
January 2023.

Mapping Historical Trauma in Tulsa, 1921-2021

Radical Cartography Conference. Organized by the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities & Cultural Heritage at Brown University
November 2019.

The Digital Humanities and Restorative Justice Archaeology: An Interview with Dr. Alicia Odewale

Digital Humanities Initiative Speaker Series, Oklahoma State University. November 2020.

Hult Center Podcast: Dr. Alicia Odewale

June 2023. Dr. Alicia Odewale talks about her upcoming presentation Greenwood: A Century of Resilience.

National Geographic ExFest Talk

Dr. Alicia Odewale Symposium Day 1 Ex Fest 23 “Finding Me Where Trees Speak”.

Research Papers/Publications

Elevated on a Hill: An Archaeology of Hate and Racial Violence in Black Wall Street’s Most Affluent Neighborhood

Society for Historical Archaeology Conference. Lisbon Portugal January 2023. The Digital Archaeological Record.

New Efforts in Restorative Justice Archaeology: Tulsa, OK

Society of Black Archaeologists Newsletter, 2(1): 12-13. Published January 13, 2020

Advocating for Archaeology’s New Purpose

Sapiens, Op-Ed Standpoints. Published March 15, 2023.

Tulsa, 1921: Reporting a Massacre by Randy Krehbiel.

Journal of American Ethnic History 40 (3): 130-132.

Other Greenwood Curricula

#TulsaSyllabus

The Rise, Destruction, and Rebuilding of Tulsa’s Greenwood District

1921-2021 Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Commission Resource Guide

Greenwood Rising: Experience Greenwood

Tulsa City-County Library African American Resource Center: Tulsa Race Massacre

Though resources on the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre can be found throughout the Tulsa City-County Library system, TCCL’s African-American Resource Center (AARC) at Rudisill Regional Library, in particular, and the Research Center at Central Library house the greatest number of resources. 

Tulsa City-County Library Research Center: Tulsa and Oklahoma History Resources Guide.

To promote lifelong learning and contribute to a stronger community, Tulsa City-County Library collects, organizes, and preserves materials on the history of our area.

John Hope Franklin Center for Reconciliation Curriculum Resource Guide

This portal is dedicated to promoting reconciliation by providing resources that contribute to discussion and reflection-based teaching and learning.

Black History Saturdays

Black History Saturdays’ curriculum blends historical knowledge with engaging pedagogy for a local audience of preschool aged youth to adult learners.

All-Black Towns of Oklahoma Storymap

Remembering Safe Havens

The Women of Black Wall Street

ArcGIS StoryMap created for 2892 Miles to Go

Geographic Walk for Justice. From Tullahassee to Tulsa.

National Geographic Edulab Mapping Innovation

How can we use maps to reimagine our history? See how Explorer Alicia Odewale uses maps to help students visualize and understand life in Oklahoma’s historic all-Black towns one hundred years ago.

National Geographic Explorer Classroom

Stories and Wisdom within the Land Around Us.

Oklahoma Public Archaeology Network

Creating and Connecting Communities in Service of Heritage.

Other Critical Digital Cartography Projects

Using Geospatial Tools to Bear Witness to Black/Indigenous Heritage, Injustice & Erasure

Mapping Greenwood

A Virtual Tour of The events of the Tulsa Race Massacre and Current Sites of Commemoration.

New York Times 3D Map of Greenwood

Rosewood Heritage and VR Project

This website explores the history of Rosewood, Florida – a majority African American town destroyed during a 1923 race riot.

Texas Freedom Colonies Project

The Texas Freedom Colonies Project is an educational and social justice initiative dedicated to supporting the preservation of Black settlement landscapes, heritage, and grassroots preservation practices through research.

Mapping Segregation in Washington DC

How Racially Restricted Housing Shaped Ward 4.

The African American Trail Project at Tufts

Originally inspired by the scholarship of Tufts Professor Gerald R. Gill (1948-2007) and driven by faculty and student research, this project maps African American and African-descended public history sites across greater Boston, and throughout Massachusetts.

The Antioch Colony

Archaeologists are working with descendants to preserve the history of a community in Texas formed by Black freedmen and women after the Civil War.

Chicago’s Million Dollar Blocks

Illinois spending on incarceration is ineffective & costly to all. There are better ways to invest public dollars.

Mapping Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas

Mapping Violence recovers lost and obscured cases of racial violence in Texas from 1900 to 1930, a period of now largely forgotten bloodshed.

Map of Racial Terror Lynchings, Equal Justice Initiative

Confronting the legacy of racial terror.

Mapping San Jose: Reclaiming Memories

Cementerio San José is a historic Mexican and Mexican-American cemetery located in the Montopolis neighborhood of southeast Austin, Texas.

Mapping Black Ecologies

This essay is our first effort in a long-term collective project organized to collect historical and contemporary narratives from Black communities that offer alternative epistemic entry points for historicizing and interrupting mounting ecological crisis.

MHTT Trauma-Informed Standards

Sources for Trauma-Informed Learning in Connection to Historical and Racialized Trauma in Educational Settings

The Limits of Justice-Informed Research and Teaching in the Presence of Anti-blackness and Black Suffering

Surplus of Transformation or (Un)Just Traumatic Returns? Brown, Keffrelyn D. (2021). Qualitative Inquiry, 27(10), 1169-1181.

Potentially perilous pedagogies

Carello, Janice, and Lisa D. Butler. 2014. Teaching trauma is not the same as trauma-informed teaching. Journal of Trauma & Dissociation 15(2), 153-168.

Teaching and learning African American history in a multiracial classroom

Chikkatur, Anita. 2013. Theory & Research in Social Education, 41(4), 514-534.

Facing history: A systematic literature review of the intersection of trauma-informed education, critical race theory, and ubuntu in K-12 history classrooms

Cheruiyot, Karrah. 2024. (Order No. 31238608). Available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global. (3044406386).

Beyond trigger warnings: Toward a trauma-informed andragogy for the graduate theological classroom

Davidson, Jennifer. 2021.Teaching Theology & Religion, 24(1), 4-16.

Teaching the uncomfortable subject of slavery

Dubois, Page. 2014. From Abortion to Pederasty: Addressing Difficult Topics in the Classics Classroom. 187-198.

Beginning and ending with Black suffering: A meditation on and against racial justice in education

Dumas, Michael J. 2018. In Toward what justice?, pp. 29-45. Routledge.

Teaching and learning difficult histories in international contexts

Epstein, Terrie, and Carla L. Peck. 2017. New York and London: Taylor & Francis.