Theater director David Shakes looks back at the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre and looks ahead to the North Star Players’ 2021 revival of Deborah Solomon’s “Emancipation Denied.”
Emancipation Denied
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Following the Civil War, African-Americans began to establish all-black townships in the Indian and Oklahoma Territories. One of those townships was Greenwood — located north of the tracks in Tulsa. Created in 1906 by O.W. Gurley, one of Tulsa’s earliest pioneers, and other black entrepreneurs who invested in property, Greenwood over time became a self-sufficient […]
