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Credit Matt Trotter / KWGS Tulsa Public Schools is rolling out a new curriculum this month to commemorate the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre centennial. Tulsa teachers and the Greenwood Cultural Center developed the new lesson plans, which will be taught in grades three through 12 now and in all grades starting next school year. TPS Deputy Chief of Academics Danielle Neves said state academic standards adopted in 2002 require the massacre be taught only in high school state and U.S. history classes. "It’s our belief that’s not enough, right? Especially for students in Tulsa where this is our sh...

As deputy chief of academics at Tulsa Public Schools in Oklahoma, Danielle Neves has seen the challenges of distance learning firsthand. And while there are plenty of concerns over academic skills, “I think our students have gained a lot of other things,” she says. “They’ve learned a different kind of resilience in this year.” To illustrate, Ms. Neves points to examples of student growth in independence and technology skills. She’s also seen more social engagement from students over the country’s reckoning with racism. Why We Wrote This Amid concerns abou...

4:31 George Monroe recalled bits and pieces of the Tulsa Race Massacre up until the end of his life. The images never could escape his memory. “I remember seeing people getting shot,” he said In a 1999 oral history. In that oral history, collected by the Tulsa Race Riot Commission for their 2001 report, Monroe vividly recalls his mother telling her four children to hide under a bed as a group of white men approached their home. “My sister grabbed me and pulled me under there,” he said. “And while I was under the bed, one of the guys come in past me and stepped on my finger. And a...

4:28   In that oral history, collected by the Tulsa Race Riot Commission for their 2001 report, Monroe vividly recalls his mother telling her four children to hide under a bed as a group of white men approached their home. “My sister grabbed me and pulled me under there,” he said. “And while I was under the bed, one of the guys come in past me and stepped on my finger. And as I was about to scream, my sister put her hand over my mouth so I couldn’t be heard.” Monroe, who died in 2001, was a survivor of one of the most tragic race-based massacres in American history. Officially,...