Tulsa, Oklahoma, Midwest region (Geographic Keyword)

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A Black Space Elevated on a Hill: An Archaeology of Hate and Racial Violence in Black Wall Street’s Most Affluent Neighborhood (2023)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alicia D Odewale. Parker VanValkenburgh. Nkem Ike. Amber Vinson.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Materialities of (Un)Freedom: Examining the Material Consequences of Inequality within Historical Archaeology", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In this paper, we present an archaeology of anti-Black violence and economic inequality in early 20th Century Tulsa, Oklahoma. Here, white jealousy, hatred, and class resentment exploded in the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, leading to almost unimaginable consequences for...