Hi everyone. Hope your summer has been awesome. While on a recent trip, I watched a documentary on the Tulsa Race Massacre while I was waiting for my wife to finish up a meeting. It has been on my mind ever since. Are there OER materials that cover this topic or have any of you taught this topic in a world history class? What do you do when you encounter a topic that you think might be left out of your school's curriculum?
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I am 47 years old, have a degree in History and didn't learn about the Tulsa Race Massacre until I saw it referenced in the Watchmen HBO series a few years ago. I couldn't believe I had literally never heard about it.
This clip is a pretty powerful scene. If I taught older students, I would show it and ask them generate some questions we could research. I suspect we would get ones along the lines of:
What really happened?
Why Tulsa?
What started it?
What happened after?
How accurate was the clip?
Why is this not common knowledge?
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Sadly, so many incidents connected to "Red Summer" or African American History are not covered in college American History courses. Thankfully there is a lot more access to hidden histories. PBS has a series that has been pretty helpful www.pbs.org/.../hidden-histories.
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Sadly, so many incidents connected to "Red Summer" or African American History are not covered in college American History courses. Thankfully there is a lot more access to hidden histories. PBS has a series that has been pretty helpful www.pbs.org/.../hidden-histories.
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Shauna Aningo , thank you for sharing the PBS series! There are so many stories I never learned in school and I'm trying to share stories from different groups and perspectives as often as possible. I recently found out about how the idea of zombies has ties to slavery and religious syncretism of Haitian Vodou. This TED Ed video was a great discussion piece for Halloween.
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I’m always trying to learn as much as possible, so thank you for sharing this! I had no idea about the TedEd resource, and I’ve read quite a bit and even attended lectures about Vodum and sangria. It’s amazing how there’s always something new to discover!
On that note, I wanted to share a resource my students really enjoyed. I mentioned it in another post, but it’s worth highlighting again: Lowell Milken Center’s Unsung Heroes Projects www.lowellmilkencenter.org/.../projects. This website is packed with inspiring stories and has been a big hit in my classroom.
Let’s keep the learning and sharing going!