Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 Bibliography

These titles are representative of the Tulsa City-County Library's collection of works about the 1921 Tulsa Race Riots. The titles can be found in the African-American Resource Center as well as other locations.

Books

American Red Cross. Tulsa Area Chapter. Report, Tulsa Race Riot Disaster. [S.1:s.n.,1994] 361.76340976 686 A512 1994.
Ellsworth, Scott. Death in a Promised Land: The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1982. 976.686 E47d 1992
Gates, Eddie Faye. They Came Searching: How Blacks Sought the Promised Land in Tulsa. Austin, Texas: Eakin Press, 1997. 976.68600496 073 G223t 1997.
Hower, Robert N. 1921 Race Riot and the American Red Cross: Angels of Mercy. Tulsa, Oklahoma: Homestead Press 1993. 976.686. H839o 1993.
Johnson, Hannibal. Black Wall Street: From Riot to Renaissance in Tulsa's Historic Greenwood District. Austin, Texas: Eakin Press, 1998. 976. 686 J632b 1998.
Parrish, Mary E. Jones. Race Riot 1921: Events of the Tulsa Disaster. Tulsa, Oklahoma: Out on a Limb Publishing, 1998. 976.686052 P249r 1998.

Newspapers

"85 Whites and Negroes Die in Tulsa Riots as 3,000 Armed Men Battle in Streets: 30 Blocks Burned, Military Rule in City," New York Times. 2 June 1921, pp.1-2.
"Denies Negroes Started Tulsa Riot," New York Times, 5 June 1921, col. 1, p.21.
"Klan Head Asks Tulsa to Rally," Chicago Defender, 20 August 1921.
"A Near Lynching: Cowards failed to Lynch a colored Man," Tulsa Star, 24 August 1918.
"Tulsa Race Riot: Jury Indicts Police Chief," New York Times, 26 June 1921, col.4, p.16.
"Tulsa in Remorse to Rebuild Homes: Dead Now up to 30," New York Times, 3 June 1921, col.8, p.1.

Magazines and Journals

Commander, Tulsa Post, African Blood Brotherhood, " The Tulsa Riot," The Crusader, July 1921, vol., IV. No.5, pp. 5-25.
Cremin, Pat, "Greenwood is Fading.," Oklahoma Impact Magazine, June/July 1971, vol. 4, pp. 3-5.
Halliburton, R., Jr., "The Tulsa Race War of 1921," Journal of Black Studies, March 1972, vol.2, No. 3, pp. 333-357.
Wheeler Ed, "Profile of a Race Riot," Oklahoma Impact Magazine, June/July 1971, vol. 4, pp. 14-26.

In addition to the articles, magazines and journals listed above, the African-American Resource Center also has holdings of, the June 14, 1921 address by Mayor T. D. Evans to the City of Tulsa's Commissioners Board concerning the riots.

Race Riot Kit

1921 Tulsa race riot kit [kit] / African-American Resource Center and YWCA Committee for Racial Justice.
[Tulsa, Okla.] : Tulsa City-County Library : YWCA, 2007.

DVD’s

In search of history. The night Tulsa burned [videorecording] / producer/writer, Sean P. Geary ; producer, Mark Montgomery.
[New York] : History Channel, [2002

Terror in Tulsa [videorecording] : history uncovered.
[United States] : CN8 : in association with FullMind, c2008.

VHS

First person singular [videorecording] : John Hope Franklin / Dick Young Productions for Lives and Legacies Films.
[Alexandria, Va.] : PBS Home Video, c1997.

Riot and remembrance [videorecording].
West Lafayette, IN : C-SPAN Archives, 2004.

The Greenwood blues [videorecording] : the Tulsa race riot of 1921 / KOCO TV 5 Alive.
Oklahoma City : KOCO TV 5 Alive.