By Darla Shelden, Metropolis Sentinel Reporter —
OKLAHOMA CITY — The Oklahoma Historic Society (OHS) will host “Legacy of the Tulsa Race Bloodbath,” roundtable dialogue on Saturday, June 12 at 1:30 p.m. This system will evaluate how race relations developed in Oklahoma after one of many state’s most horrific occasions.
The occasion will happen on the Oklahoma Historical past Heart, and restricted seating will likely be out there on a first-come, first-served foundation.
The panel will current a number of views that symbolize totally different features the state’s African American group.
Moderated by J. D. Baker, particular assistant to Oklahoma Metropolis Mayor Holt, the panel will embrace Brenda Alford, who will share her household’s story of surviving the Tulsa Race Bloodbath; Oklahoma State College professor Dr. Brandy Thomas Wells, who will present historic context for and ramifications of the bloodbath; and Rev. Dr. Robert Turner of the historic Vernon Chapel A. M. E. Church, who will give the attitude of a group chief in Tulsa.
Brenda Nails-Alford is the granddaughter of 1921 Tulsa Race Bloodbath survivors and Black Wall Avenue entrepreneurs. She serves on the 1921 Tulsa Race Bloodbath Centennial Fee, Tulsa Race Bloodbath Commemorative Grant Program Committee, Greenwood Heritage Residents Advisory Committee and chairs the Tulsa Mass Graves Public Oversight Committee.
Nails-Alford serves in these capacities to lift consciousness of the historical past of Greenwood’s Black Wall Avenue and convey some sense justice and therapeutic to a group that suffered vastly.
Dr. Thomas Wells earned her Ph.D. at Ohio State College and is a professor of historical past at Oklahoma State College. She is at present making ready a e book manuscript that analyzes African American girls’s worldwide pursuits and actions from the Nineties by means of the Nineteen Sixties. Her work raises consciousness about how members of the Nationwide Affiliation of Coloured Ladies’s Golf equipment and the Nationwide Council of Negro Ladies pursued anti-colonial and anti-imperialist agendas, and the way they participated within the total quest for civil and human rights. Dr. Wells’s essays have appeared within the journal Origins and the gathering “Ladies and Trendy Empire, 1840 to the Current.”
Rev. Dr. Turner is the tutorial dean for Jackson Theological Seminary in Little Rock AR. Turner is on a number of boards and concerned with organizations in Tulsa, such because the American Village, Crutcher Basis and the North Tulsa Job Power. Since coming to Tulsa in 2017 he has turn into a tireless advocate for Greenwood. By means of his management, the Vernon Chapel A. M. E. Church has been positioned on the Nationwide Register of Historic Locations.
Baker is a sixth-generation Oklahoma Metropolis resident who graduated from the College of Oklahoma with a bachelor of arts in public relations. Whereas at OU, he acquired the Clara Luper Division of African and African American Research Management Award. Alongside together with his place within the mayor’s workplace, Baker serves on the Board of Administrators for the Oklahoma Metropolis Black Chamber of Commerce. He was not too long ago acknowledged within the high 5 of Oklahoma Metropolis’s “Most Highly effective Younger Professionals” by OKC Friday newspaper for the second 12 months in-a-row.
This roundtable dialogue is sponsored by the OHS’s Black Heritage Committee and the Oklahoma Historical past Heart Schooling Division. For extra details about the occasion, please name 405-522-6676.
The Oklahoma Historical past Heart is a division of the Oklahoma Historic Society and is an affiliate of the Smithsonian Establishment, Nationwide Archives and is an accredited member of the American Alliance of Museums. The mission of the Oklahoma Historic Society is to gather, protect and share the historical past and tradition of the state of Oklahoma and its folks.
Based in 1893 by members of the Territorial Press Affiliation, the Oklahoma Historical past Heart – a division of the Oklahoma Historic Society – maintains museums, historic websites and associates throughout the state. By means of its analysis archives, displays, instructional packages and publications the OHS chronicles the historical past of Oklahoma.
For extra info, go to okhistory.org.
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