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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23XA_tower-of-reconciliation-and-healing-walkway_Tulsa-OK.html
Healing Walkway
"Lifting as we climb-The eternal verities shall prevail"
~ B.C. Franklin ~
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We have b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23WC_the-tulsa-race-riot-of-1921_Tulsa-OK.html
The Tulsa race riot of 1921 was the single worst incident of racial violence in American history. It began after Dick Rowland, a nineteen-year-old African American shoe shiner, was accused of assaulting Sarah Page, a young white elevator operator,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23W7_mt-zion-baptist-church_Tulsa-OK.html
Built and dedicated
April 4, 1921
Completely reduced to charred smoldering ruin
during Tulsa's infamous race riot
June 1, 1921
Rebuilt and dedicated as a monument to
faithfulness and perseverance
October 21, 1952
Dedicated and registered…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23W5_john-hope-franklin-reconciliation-park_Tulsa-OK.html
"I think knowing one's history leads one to act in a more
enlightened fashion. I can not imagine how knowing one's
history would not urge one to be an activist."
Dr. John Hope Franklin
who forever changed the way that Americans think of
the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23TT_booker-t-washington-high-school_Tulsa-OK.html
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Constructed on this site in 1913, Booker T. Washington High School served as the separate school for Black students in Tulsa.
The first building was a four-room wooden frame structure. A sixteen-room brick facility with a basement replac…