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McFarlin Library. University of Tulsa.  2933 E. 6th St.  Tulsa, OK.  74104-3123 (OKT - OkTU)

Tulsa race riot of 1921 archive

Collection 1989-004

 
Tapes and Interviews
   Tulsa Race Riot Lecture
1:1A A Tulsa Race Riot lecture given by Wilhemina Howell and Mabel Little, who both witnessed the riot in 1921.  In conjunction with an exhibit organized by the Tulsa Historical Society and The University of Tulsa, 8-25 Oct 1989.  
Tulsa Race Riot Interviews with Scott Ellsworth
  These are on cassette tape and may be listened to in the department.  They are copies of originals held at the William R. Perkins Library, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.  They may be copied only with the permission of Scott Ellsworth.   
1:1 Seymour Williams.  Interviewed on 2 Jun 1978 at his home, 1812 N. Rockford, Tulsa.  
1:2 Seymour Williams.  Cont’d.  
1:3 Henry Whitlow.  Interviewed 6 Jun 1978 at his home, 2210 N. Rockford, Tulsa.  
1:4 William D. Williams.  Interviewed 7 Jun 1978 at his home, 2233 N. Denver Blvd., Tulsa.  
1:5 William D. Williams.  Cont’d.  
1:6 Robert Fairchild.  Interviewed 8 Jun 1978 at his place of work, 2212 S. Jackson, Tulsa.  
1:7 Robert Fairchild.  Cont’d.  
1:8 Victor H. Hodge.  Interviewed 13 Jun 1978 at his home, 1606 N. Norfolk, Tulsa.  
1:9 Nathaniel Duckery.  Notes taken during a telephone interview 13 Jun 1978. Tape made 20 Jun 1978.  
1:10 Mozella Franklin Jones (Mrs. Waldo Jones, Sr.).  Interviewed 20 Jun 1978 at her home, 2434 N. Main, Tulsa.  
1:11 N. C. Williams.  Interviewed 20 Jun 1978 at his home, 2718 E. 1st, Tulsa.  
1:12 B. E. Caruthers.  Interviewed 21 Jul 1978 at his home, 98th and N. Memorial, Tulsa.  
1:13 Mr. and Mrs. I. S. Pittman.  Interviewed 26 Jul 1978 at their home, 802 N. Delaware Place, Tulsa.  
1:14 Victor H. Hodge.  Interviewed 12 Jun 1978.  

Documents and other related materials
2:1 Tulsa Star excerpts.  Photocopies.  
2:2 1920 Census excerpts.  Photocopies.  
2:3 1920s City Directory excerpts.  Photocopies.  
2:4 Stockton, Richard. Troops on Riot Duty. 1912.  Excerpt.  Photocopy.  
2:5 "Riot Duty", by Brig. Gen. J. F. Wolters 1919?  Excerpt.  Photocopy.  
2:6 Tulsa Star. 29 January 1921.  Excerpt.  Photocopy.  
2:7 Tulsa Tribune excerpts. Photocopies.  
2:8 Tulsa Tribune. 31 May 1921.  Excerpt.  Photocopy.  
2:9 Tulsa Tribune. 31 May 1921.  City Edition.  Excerpt.  Photocopy.  
2:10 Tulsa Daily World, 1 June 1921. 1st Ed.  Excerpt.  Photocopy.  
2:11 Tulsa Daily World, 1 June 1921. Extra Ed.  Excerpt.  Photocopy.  
2:12 Tulsa Daily World, 1 June 1921. 2nd Extra Ed.  Excerpt.  Photocopy.  
2:13 Tulsa Daily World, 1 June 1921. 3rd Extra Ed.  Excerpt.  Photocopy.
n.b. originals of several of these articles have been pasted into the Samuel Kennedy Scrapbook.		  
2:14 Tulsa Daily World, 1 June 1921. Final Extra Ed.  Excerpt.  Photocopy.  
2:15 Tulsa Tribune, 1 June 1921.  Excerpt.  Photocopy.  
2:16 “Martial Law Declared.  Headquarters Oklahoma National Guard. City Hall, Tulsa, Okla., June 1st, 1921.”  Photocopy of broadside (Original located in Vault)  
2:17 Tulsa Daily World, 2 June 1921. Excerpt.  Photocopy.  
2:18 Tulsa Tribune, 2 June 1921.  Excerpt.  Photocopy.  
2:19 Muskogee Times Democrat, 2 June 1921.  Excerpt.  Photocopy.  
2:20 Tulsa Daily World, 3 June 1921. Excerpt.  Photocopy.  
2:21 Tulsa Tribune, 3 June 1921.  Excerpt.  Photocopy.  
2:22 National Guard Report - LTC Rooney, 3d Inf. 3 June 1921 (Photocopy excerpt from R. Halliburton, Tulsa Race War).  
2:23 Tulsa Daily World, 4 June 1921. Excerpt.  Photocopy.  
2:24 Tulsa Tribune, 4 June 1921.  Excerpt.  Photocopy.  
2:25 Tulsa Daily World, 5 June 1921. Excerpt.  Photocopy.  
2:26 Tulsa Tribune, 5 June 1921.  Excerpt.  Photocopy.  
2:27 Tulsa Daily World, 6 June 1921. Excerpt.  Photocopy.  
2:28 Tulsa Tribune, 6 June 1921.  Excerpt.  Photocopy.  
2:29 Tulsa Daily World, 7 June 1921. Excerpt.  Photocopy.  
2:30 Tulsa Tribune, 7 June 1921.  Excerpt.  Photocopy.  
2:31 Tulsa Daily World, 10 June 1921. Excerpt.  Photocopy.  
2:32 "Blood and Oil"  The Survey. 11 June 1921.  Photocopy.  
2:33 Tulsa Daily World,  11 June 1921. Excerpt.  Photocopy.  
2:34 National Guard Report - MAJ Paul Brown, San Det. 3d Inf. 1 July 1921 (Photocopy excerpt from R. Halliburton, Tulsa Race War).  
2:35 National Guard Report - LT Roy Dunlap, Batt C, 2d FA. n.d (Photocopy excerpt from R. Halliburton, Tulsa Race War).  
2:36 National Guard Report - MAJ Byron Kirkpatrick, A.G. Dep. 1 July 1921 (Photocopy excerpt from R. Halliburton, Tulsa Race War).  
2:37 National Guard Report - CPT John McCuen, Co. B, 3d Inf. 1 July 1921 Typed manuscript draft transcription of a duty report, 31 May 1921.
(May not be photocopied)		  
2:38 National Guard Report - MAJ James Bell, 1st Bn, 3rd Inf 2 July 1921 (Photocopy excerpt from R. Halliburton, Tulsa Race War).  
2:39 National Guard Report - MAJ . C. W. Daley, I.G.D. 6 July 1921 (Photocopy excerpt from R. Halliburton, Tulsa Race War).  
2:40 Tulsa Daily World, 12 June 1921. Excerpt.  Photocopy.  
2:41 Tulsa Daily World, 14 June 1921. Excerpt.  Photocopy.  
2:42 "Tulsa." The Nation. 15 June 1921. Excerpt.  Photocopy.  
2:43 "The Lesson of Tulsa." The Outlook. 15 June 1921. Excerpt.  Photocopy.  
2:44 "The Turk in Tulsa." The Independent. 18 June 1921. Excerpt.  Photocopy.  
2:45 "Mob Fury and Race Hatred as a National Danger." The Literary Digest. 18 June 1921. Excerpt.  Photocopy.  
2:46 "Moving toward Race War?" The New Republic. 22 June 1921. Excerpt.  Photocopy.  
2:47 "The Eruption of Tulsa" by Walter White. The Nation. 29 June 1921. Excerpt.  Photocopy.  
2:48 "Over There" by Amy Comstock. The Survey. 2 July 1921. Excerpt.  Photocopy.  
2:49 Tulsa Daily World, 16 July 1921. Excerpt.  Photocopy.  
2:50 Tulsa Daily World, 20 July 1921. Excerpt.  Photocopy.  
3:1 Tulsa Tribune, 20 July 1921.  Excerpt.  Photocopy.  
3:2 Tulsa Daily World, 21 July 1921. Excerpt.  Photocopy.  
3:3 National Guard Report - LTC Rooney, 3d Inf. 29 July 1921 (Photocopy excerpt from R. Halliburton, Tulsa Race War).  
3:4 National Guard Report - CPT Frank Van Voorhis, Svc Co. 3d Inf. 30 July 1921 (Photocopy excerpt from R. Halliburton, Tulsa Race War).  
3:5 William Redfearn v. American Central Insurance Co. 16 April 1924. (downloaded from http://www.okcu.edu/law/redfearnbrief.htm).  
3:6 "I Investigate Lynchings" by Walter White. American Mercury. Jan 1929. Excerpt.  Photocopy.  
3:7 Martial Law and Its Administration. compiled by Jacob F. Wolters. 1930. Excerpt.  Photocopy.  
3:8 "Oklahoma Race Riot" by Frances W. Prentice.  Scribner's Magazine, August 1931. Excerpt.  Photocopy.
"Oklahoma Race Riot" by Frances W. Prentice.  Life in the United States. 1933. Excerpt.  Photocopy.
"Oklahoma Race Riot" by Frances W. Prentice.  Tellers of Tales. 1939. Excerpt.  Photocopy.		  
3:9 "Uses and Legal Questions of Martial Law in Oklahoma." Guy Harold Parkhurst. MA Thesis. Oklahoma University. 1935. Excerpt.  Photocopy.  
3:10 Civil Disturbances and Disasters.  FM19-15. 1968. Excerpt.  Photocopy.  
3:11 “The Politics of Identification.  A Perspective of Police Accountability.”  L. Alex Swan.  In Crime and Deliquency, Vol. 20, April 1974.  Excerpt.  Photocopy.  
3:12 "That Ugly Day in May." Connie Cronley. Oklahoma Monthly.  August 1976.  Excerpt.  Photocopy.  
3:13 "Profile of a Race Riot."  Ed Wheeler.  Reprinted from Impact Magazine.  Oklahoma Eagle. 2 November 1978.  
3:14 "The Conspiracy of Silence." Oklahoma Eagle. 6 June 1983.  Excerpt.  Photocopy.  
3:15 Tulsa World, 12 October 1989. Excerpt.  Photocopy.  
3:16 Tulsa World, 8 March 1993. Excerpt.  Photocopy.  
3:17 Tulsa Race Riot Commission Minutes. 18 June 1998. (downloaded from http://www.ok-history.mus.ok.us).  
3:18 Tulsa Race Riot Commission Minutes. 18 March 1999. (downloaded from http://www.ok-history.mus.ok.us).  
3:19 Tulsa World, 31 January1999. Excerpt.  Photocopy.  
3:20 "New Riot Stories and Eyewitness Accounts...". 18 March 1999.  Typed manuscript.  
3:21 Tulsa World, 28 March 1999. Excerpt.  Photocopy.  
3:22 Tulsa World, 17 April 1999. (downloaded from http://infoweb3.newsbank.com).  
3:23 Tulsa World, 9 November 1999. (downloaded from http://infoweb3.newsbank.com).  
3:24 Tulsa World, 21 November 1999. (downloaded from http://infoweb3.newsbank.com).  
3:25 "Unearthing a Riot." New York Times Magazine. 19 December 1999  
3:26 Tulsa World, 5 March 2000. (downloaded from http://infoweb3.newsbank.com).
3:27 Tulsa World, 8 March 2000. (downloaded from http://infoweb3.newsbank.com).  
3:28 Tulsa World, 1 June 2000. (downloaded from http://infoweb3.newsbank.com).  
3:29 Tulsa World, 30 June 2000. (downloaded from http://infoweb3.newsbank.com).  
3:30 Tulsa World, 7 December 2000.  
3:31 Tulsa World, 16 December 2000.  
3:32 Tulsa World, 23 December 2000.  
3:33 Tulsa World, 9 December 2001. Excerpt.  Photocopy.  
3:34 Excerpts from the Sanborn Map of Tulsa.  
3:35 Tulsa’s Industrial and Commercial Districts.  Photocopy of the map, with annotations (Original map located in Map Case 2: Drawer 10)  
  Map of Tulsa, c.1920. Photocopy. (Original map located in Map Case 2: Drawer 10)  
3:36 “National Association for the Advancement of Colored People: Oklahoma Riot Victims’ Relief and Defense Fund.”  n.d.  Photocopy.  
3:37 Building permits before and after the riot.  Document purportedly prepared by the Oklahoma Historical Society for the Tulsa Race Riot Commission in 1998.  Photocopy of a typed manuscript draft, 21p.  
3:38 Newspaper Accounts  (Photocopy excerpt from R. Halliburton, Tulsa Race War).  
3:39 "Oklahoma Outbursts"  
3:40 Report of Ed. Wheeler to Robert Norris. 21 January 2000.  
3:41 Transcript of T. J. Essley Interview.  (B Co. 3d Inf).  

Secondary research materials
4:1 Print out of H.R. 1039: To direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special resources study regarding the suitability and feasibility of designating the John Hope Franklin Memorial/Museum of Reconciliation and other sites in Tulsa, Oklahoma, relating to the 1921 Tulsa race riot as a unit of the National Park Service, and for other purposes. 5p. (downloaded from http://www.govtrack.us).  
4:2 Printout of "Sullivan legislation remembers the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot" 2p. (downloaded from http://sullivan.house.gov).  
4:3 Letter to the editor, 02-19-2007.  By William M. O'Brien.  (unpublished).  
4:4 Excerpt from Clarence B. Douglas, The History of Tulsa, Oklahoma. 1921.  Extracted by William B. O'Brien. 5p.  
4:5 [Empty]  
4:6 [Empty]  
4:7 [Empty]  
4:8 [Empty]  
4:9 [Empty]  
4:10 "Conspiracies of Silence." James R. Allen. (downloaded from http://www.ideajournal.com).  
4:11 "Peg-Leg and the Tulsa Race Riot" American Negro Folklore. Excerpt.  Photocopy.  
4:12 The Tulsa Race War of 1921.  R. Halliburton, Jr. 1975. Excerpt.  Photocopy.  
4:13 History of the Tulsa Police Department, 1882-1990. Ronald L. Trekell. 1989. Excerpt.  Photocopy.  
4:14 Printout of "The Tulsa Riot of 1921" Alice Lovelace. (downloaded from http://www.inmotionmagazine.com).  
4:15 "Reconstructing the Dreamland." Alfred Brophy. 2000.  
4:16 "Critique of the Oklahoma Commission to Study the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921."  Robert J. Norris.  
4:17 “The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921.”  I. Marc Carlson.  Photocopy of a typed manuscript draft student paper, 35p.  (This item is available for download at www.personal.utulsa.edu/~marc-carlson/riot/raceriot.html)  
4:18 “The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921.”  Alvin F. Simpkins.  Photocopy of a typed manuscript draft student paper, 21p.
(Photocopy - May not be photocopied without author's permission)		  
     
     
  “The Night Tulsa Burned.  History Channel documentary details the infamous race riot of 1921.”  Tulsa World, Vol. 94, No. 166, Thursday, 18 Feb 1999.  
Photographs (In Vault)
5:ALL

PLEASE NOTE:  Photocopies of all Race Riot photographs housed in this collection are provided here for your convenience; you may view the original photographs by special request.

  
Negatives (In Vault)
6:ALL    
Misc. Fragile (In Vault)
7:1 Tulsa Daily World, 1 June 1921. 4th Extra Ed.  Headline.  From Francis A. Schmidt scrapbook.  
  Tulsa Tribune, 1 June 1921.  State edition. First Extra Ed.  Headline.  From Francis A. Schmidt scrapbook.  
  Tulsa Daily World, 1 June 1921. 2nd Extra Ed.  Headline.  From Francis A. Schmidt scrapbook.  
7:2 “Martial Law Declared.  Headquarters Oklahoma National Guard. City Hall, Tulsa, Okla., June 1st, 1921.”  
Tapes and Interviews Originals (In Vault)
8:All Original Tapes from Duke University, and tape of the talk (see Box 1 above)  
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