What Just Happened?

A Focus on Events Surrounding Juneteenth and Tulsa

Join us at www.youtube.com/tulsalibrary for this program designed to showcase recent events impacting our community, including Juneteenth, Trump's visit to Tulsa and the 1921 Race Massacre/Riot.

What Just Happened is a program designed to showcase recent events impacting the Tulsa community, with an emphasis on creating of a historical record for posterity and the benefit of future generations. June 19-20, 2020, was a time of unparalleled focus on Tulsa, the 1921 Race Massacre/Riot, Juneteenth, the visit of President Trump and the Black Lives Matter Movement. 

Facilitated by Alicia M. H. Latimer, African-American Resource Center coordinator, Tulsa City-County Library, panelists include Vanessa Hall Harper, City of Tulsa District 1 representative; Phil Armstrong, 1921 Centennial Commission; Dr. Dewayne Dickens and Dr. Pauline Harris, John Hope Franklin Center; Michelle Place, Tulsa Historical Society; and Mechelle Brown, Greenwood Cultural Center. These representatives from various community organizations will provide insights and resource information designed to document Tulsa's recent historic moments in time. 

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