He chairs the education committee for the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Commission and serves as local curator of its new history center, Greenwood Rising, which will be dedicated on June 2 as part of the centennial commemoration. He recently published his 10th book, Black Wall Street 100: An American City Grapples With Its Historical Racial Trauma.
In addition, the Tulsa author, attorney and independent consultant was named Thursday to the 2021 class of the Oklahoma Hall of Fame. I am humbled and honored to join the Oklahoma Hall of Fame. Much of my work centers on building community through education and shared experiences. That work is its own reward. This added, high-level recognition is like icing on the cake, Johnson said in an email to The Oklahoman.
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If you assign a series of storytellers to one story, each of them will put their own stamp on that story.
How will their stories be the same?
In what ways will those stories branch out to be different than the others?
Thatâs what weâll find out when a tale long untold â the story of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre â is explored in a series of documentaries that have been crafted in conjunction with the centennial of the race massacre and the destruction of Tulsaâs Black Wall Street.
ABC News Liveâs documentary special, âTulsaâs Buried Truth,â premiered Tuesday and is available on demand on Hulu. The documentary spun out of reporting for the primetime newsmagazine âSoul of a Nationâ and the podcast âSoul of a Nation: Tulsaâs Buried Truth.â
In 1921, white mobs invaded Greenwood and burned it down
In 1921, Tulsa was home to one of the most prosperous African American communities in the country. Businesses flourished along Greenwood Avenue â dubbed Black Wall Street, according to tradition, by the great educator Booker T. Washington. Residential neighborhoods spread out in a bustling community of several thousand souls.
In a little more than 12 hours, it was gone. A riot that began at the Tulsa County Courthouse on the night of May 31, 1921, escalated into an all out assault on Greenwood on the morning of June 1.
(Photo of Mount Zion Baptist church on June 1 courtesy Department of Special Collections, McFarlin Library, University of Tulsa)