Tulsa Church Ledger Preserves Stories of Faith After Histo...... | News & Reporting
Image: Courtesy of the Museum of the Bible The book might look like it’s just a list of names and numbers, but Robert Richard Allen Turner, pastor of Vernon African Methodist Episcopal Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma, knows it’s more than that. “It’s a ledger of our history that we still need to know today,” Turner said. “It’s a story of faith and folks who had faith in God.” The city of Tulsa will pause on June 1 to remember the 100th anniversary of a racial massacre. In 1921, white Oklahomans killed hundreds of Black people and completely destroyed a prosperous Black ...