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2022 Reconciliation in America National Symposium Agenda

  • Greenwood Bus Tour
    Greenwood Bus Tour
    Sat, May 29
    Oklahoma State University-Tulsa
    May 29, 2021, 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM CDT
    Oklahoma State University-Tulsa, 700 N Greenwood Ave, Tulsa, OK 74106, USA
    Culminating the John hope Franklin Symposium activities, the Greenwood Bus Tour will include significant sites often identified within the 1921 Race Massacre. This tour will leave from the OSU-Tulsa parking lot (across the street from the Ellis Walker Woods Memorial).
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  • Friday Evening Memorial - Remembering Survivors and Lives Lost
    Friday Evening Memorial - Remembering Survivors and Lives Lost
    Fri, May 28
    John Hope Franklin Reconciliation Park
    May 28, 2021, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM CDT
    John Hope Franklin Reconciliation Park, 321 N Detroit Ave, Tulsa, OK 74120, USA
    Honoring those (and their descendants) who experienced the traumatic events of the 1921 Race Massacre, the evening ceremony will provide tribute to the lives lost, the survivors, and descendants of the race massacre.
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  • Ribbon Cutting - A Pathway to Hope
    Ribbon Cutting - A Pathway to Hope
    Fri, May 28
    Greenwood Cultural Center
    May 28, 2021, 5:00 PM – 5:30 PM CDT
    Greenwood Cultural Center, 322 N Greenwood Ave, Tulsa, OK 74120, USA
    Dedication of the Pathway to Hope, a highly anticipated pedestrian walkway that will provide a direct walking route between John Hope Franklin Reconciliation Park and other sites in the core of the Greenwood District.
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  • Friday Afternoon Discussion Panel - Yiddish & Other Press Coverage of the Massacre
    Friday Afternoon Discussion Panel - Yiddish & Other Press Coverage of the Massacre
    May 28, 2021, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM CDT
    Oklahoma State University-Tulsa, 700 N Greenwood Ave, Tulsa, OK 74106, USA
    Looking back 100 years, the national and international press coverage provides a glimpse into the connections of the Tulsa Race Massacre with other historical events beyond time and geography.
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  • Friday Luncheon Panel - Eli Saslow, Dereck Black, & Matthew Stevenson
    Friday Luncheon Panel - Eli Saslow, Dereck Black, & Matthew Stevenson
    May 28, 2021, 11:45 AM – 12:45 PM CDT
    Oklahoma State University-Tulsa, 700 N Greenwood Ave, Tulsa, OK 74106, USA
    Pulitzer prize journalist Eli Saslow will share a luncheon panel with Derek Black, the former white-power heir apparent, and Matthew Stevenson.
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  • Friday Morning Keynote Address - Samuel Sinyangwe
    Friday Morning Keynote Address - Samuel Sinyangwe
    Fri, May 28
    Oklahoma State University-Tulsa
    May 28, 2021, 9:20 AM – 10:20 AM CDT
    Oklahoma State University-Tulsa, 700 N Greenwood Ave, Tulsa, OK 74106, USA
    Policy Analyst and Data Scientist Samuel Sinyangwe will provide perspective on how policy and data can provide a lens into how looking back at historical events can shape the work needed to improve the future.
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  • Thursday Evening Keynote - Dr. Cornel West
    Thursday Evening Keynote - Dr. Cornel West
    Thu, May 27
    Oklahoma State University-Tulsa
    May 27, 2021, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM CDT
    Oklahoma State University-Tulsa, 700 N Greenwood Ave, Tulsa, OK 74106, USA
    Dr. Cornel West, prominent and provocative democratic intellectual, will provide perspective on the significance of looking back at the history of race and institutional practices that creating the environment for black communities such as Greenwood.
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  • Thursday Afternoon Keynote Address - Dr. Scott Ellsworth
    Thursday Afternoon Keynote Address - Dr. Scott Ellsworth
    Thu, May 27
    May 27, 2021, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM CDT
    Oklahoma State University-Tulsa, 700 N Greenwood Ave, Tulsa, OK 74106, USA
    Historian, journalist, and author, Dr. Scott Ellsworth, will provide a review of major historical points about the 1921 Race Massacre, along with what new, updated information about the Massacre and Greenwood has emerged that sheds new insight into the events of 1921 and the Greenwood area.
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  • Thursday Luncheon Panel - Caroline Randall Williams & Dr. Turkiya Lowe
    Thursday Luncheon Panel - Caroline Randall Williams & Dr. Turkiya Lowe
    May 27, 2021, 11:45 AM – 12:45 PM CDT
    Oklahoma State University-Tulsa, 700 N Greenwood Ave, Tulsa, OK 74106, USA
    Dr. Turkiya Lowe (National Park Service's Chief Historian and Deputy Federal Preservation Officer), along with Caroline Randall Williams (Author, chef, activist, and teacher), provide a luncheon panel discussion that illuminates how important historical events tie into the history of places we live.
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  • Thursday Morning Keynote Address - Dr. Daina Ramey Berry
    Thursday Morning Keynote Address - Dr. Daina Ramey Berry
    Thu, May 27
    May 27, 2021, 9:20 AM CDT – May 28, 2021, 10:20 AM CDT
    Oklahoma State University-Tulsa, 700 N Greenwood Ave, Tulsa, OK 74106, USA
    Dr. Daina Ramey Berry will provide a national perspective of how national understanding of assigned value of the slave body (emerging from her book - The Price for their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation) - evolved into a sense of self-worth.
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  • Opening Keynote Address - Isabel Wilkerson
    Opening Keynote Address - Isabel Wilkerson
    Wed, May 26
    Oklahoma State University - Tulsa
    May 26, 2021, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM CDT
    Oklahoma State University - Tulsa, 700 N Greenwood Ave, Tulsa, OK 74106, USA
    Through the lens of her latest book, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent, Wilkerson will provide an examination of our entire social structure as an unrecognized caste system.
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  • The Nation Must Awake:  Mary E. Jones Parrish and a Legacy of Reckoning with Political Terror and Personal Trauma - A ta
    The Nation Must Awake:  Mary E. Jones Parrish and a Legacy of Reckoning with Political Terror and Personal Trauma - A ta
    May 26, 2021, 4:00 PM – 4:30 PM CDT
    Oklahoma State University - Tulsa, 700 N Greenwood Ave, Tulsa, OK 74106, USA
    Anneliese M. Bruner is the great-granddaughter of Mary E. Jones Parrish, a survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre. She will discuss her latest book and answer questions.
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  • Tour of John Hope Franklin Reconciliation Park
    Tour of John Hope Franklin Reconciliation Park
    Wed, May 26
    John Hope Franklin Reconciliation Park
    May 26, 2021, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM CDT
    John Hope Franklin Reconciliation Park, 321 N Detroit Ave, Tulsa, OK 74120, USA
    American sculptor and historian Edward Joseph (Ed) Dwight will provide a tour of the John Hope Franklin Reconciliation Park.
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Donna Gaston – dgaston@jhfcenter.org

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