Qualla: Tulsa: The Oil Capital That Buried Its Massacre https://qualla.com/tulsa en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:06 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/9/y/7/t/tulsa-city-wk/tulsa-union-depot-suns.jpg Qualla: Tulsa: The Oil Capital That Buried Its Massacre https://qualla.com/tulsa Tulsa: The Oil Capital That Buried Its Massacre: Introduction https://qualla.com/tulsa/ Photo credit Smschrag, CC BY-SA 3.0. Tulsa was the 'Oil Capital of the World' - the city where the discovery of oil at Red Fork in 1901 and Glenn Pool in 1905 created fortunes, where the Art Deco skyscrapers that oil money built still define the skyline. But Tulsa was also the site of one of America's worst racial massacres. In 1921, white mobs attacked the Greenwood District, destroying what was known as 'Black Wall Street,' killing hundreds of Black residents, leaving 10,000 homeless. Tulsa buried the history for generations; the mass graves weren't acknowledged; the massacre wasn't taught in schools. The reckoning has finally begun - the mass graves are being excavated, the history is being told - but the century of silence shaped a city that's still learning to face what it did.

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]]> Mon, 12 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/y/7/t/tulsa-city-wk/9y7t-tulsa-the-oil-capital-that-buried-its-massacre-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Tulsa: The Oil Capital That Buried Its Massacre: The Massacre https://qualla.com/tulsa/ Photo credit Smschrag, CC BY-SA 3.0. On May 31-June 1, 1921, white Tulsans attacked the Greenwood District - the prosperous Black neighborhood that Booker T. Washington had called 'Black Wall Street.' The trigger was a rumor that a Black man had assaulted a white woman in an elevator; the result was airplanes droppi...

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]]> Mon, 12 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/y/7/t/tulsa-city-wk/9y7t-tulsa-the-oil-capital-that-buried-its-massacre-the-massacre.mp3 0:06 2 full Tulsa: The Oil Capital That Buried Its Massacre: The Oil https://qualla.com/tulsa/ Photo credit Smschrag, CC BY-SA 3.0. Oil made Tulsa rich. The discovery of the Glenn Pool field in 1905 was the world's largest at the time; the oil companies headquartered in Tulsa; the millionaires built mansions and downtown towers. The Philbrook Museum is an oil baron's mansion now open to the public. The Art De...

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]]> Mon, 12 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/y/7/t/tulsa-city-wk/9y7t-tulsa-the-oil-capital-that-buried-its-massacre-the-oil.mp3 0:06 3 full Tulsa: The Oil Capital That Buried Its Massacre: The Greenwood https://qualla.com/tulsa/ Photo credit Smschrag, CC BY-SA 3.0. The Greenwood District that was destroyed in 1921 was rebuilt by its survivors - less prosperous, segregated again, but alive. Urban renewal in the 1960s and highway construction destroyed much of what remained, the familiar pattern of Black neighborhoods sacrificed for white com...

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]]> Mon, 12 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/y/7/t/tulsa-city-wk/9y7t-tulsa-the-oil-capital-that-buried-its-massacre-the-greenwood.mp3 0:06 4 full Tulsa: The Oil Capital That Buried Its Massacre: The Woody https://qualla.com/tulsa/ Photo credit Smschrag, CC BY-SA 3.0. Woody Guthrie was born in nearby Okemah but came of age in Tulsa, witnessing the inequality that shaped his music. The Woody Guthrie Center in the Tulsa Arts District preserves his legacy - the notebooks, the lyrics, the guitar that said 'This Machine Kills Fascists.' Guthrie's O...

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]]> Mon, 12 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/y/7/t/tulsa-city-wk/9y7t-tulsa-the-oil-capital-that-buried-its-massacre-the-woody.mp3 0:06 5 full Tulsa: The Oil Capital That Buried Its Massacre: Visiting Tulsa https://qualla.com/tulsa/ Photo credit Smschrag, CC BY-SA 3.0. Tulsa is served by Tulsa International Airport (TUL). The Philbrook Museum - the oil baron mansion with exceptional gardens and collections - is essential. The Woody Guthrie Center tells his story. The Greenwood Rising history center opened in 2021 to tell the massacre story. The...

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