Other Resources ( click to go directly to the list)Ī list of resources available online to learn more about the Tulsa Race Massacre, including an online panel being held June 1. You can request these books directly in the catalog, or contact any library location for assistance. Those books available as electronic items (eBooks and eAudiobooks) in Hoopla and Overdrive have links as well. Thirty-five city blocks were destroyed, while as many as 300 Black people were killed, and nearly 10,000 were left homeless.īelow is a curated and annotated list of books on this topic held at the Springfield City Library as of May 2021, with links to our catalog.
From May 31 to June 1, 1921, a White mob numbering in the thousands – supported by private airplanes dropping incendiary bombs – obliterated the Greenwood District, a prosperous Black community in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
