Brush up on your local history and work with peers to win prizes at the Tulsa City-County Library’s 2020 African-American Heritage Bowl: 1921 Race Massacre Centennial Edition. TCCL’s African-American Resource Center will host the bowl, which will kick off a year of events and programs leading up to the centennial of the 1921 Race Massacre in Tulsa.
The African-American Heritage Bowl will be held at the Rudisill Regional Library, 1520 N. Hartford, Thursday, Feb. 27, 6 p.m. This event is free and open to the public, but participants must register their teams. Registration is open until Feb. 10.
Local students, business organizations, churches, book clubs and families are welcome to participate in the competition, which will feature a Junior High Bowl, High School Bowl and a Community Bowl. Trophies will be awarded for first-, second- and third-place winners, and each member of the first-place winning teams in the Junior High and High School bowls will receive an Amazon Fire tablet. Interested participants can acquire a quiz book from the Rudisill Regional Library, written by the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Commission members, to use as a study guide in preparation for the bowl.
The African-American Heritage Bowl is sponsored by the African-American Resource Center, the Tulsa Library Trust, and Jim and Sally Frasier. To register your team, email Adrienne.Teague@TulsaLibrary.org. For more information about the African-American Heritage Bowl, call 918-549-7323 or visit the library’s website, www.tulsalibrary.org.
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