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2022 Reconciliation in America National Symposium Agenda
- May 29, 2021, 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM CDTOklahoma State University-Tulsa, 700 N Greenwood Ave, Tulsa, OK 74106, USACulminating 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).
- May 28, 2021, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM CDTJohn Hope Franklin Reconciliation Park, 321 N Detroit Ave, Tulsa, OK 74120, USAHonoring 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.
- May 28, 2021, 5:00 PM – 5:30 PM CDTGreenwood Cultural Center, 322 N Greenwood Ave, Tulsa, OK 74120, USADedication 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.
- May 28, 2021, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM CDTOklahoma State University-Tulsa, 700 N Greenwood Ave, Tulsa, OK 74106, USALooking 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.
- May 28, 2021, 9:20 AM – 10:20 AM CDTOklahoma State University-Tulsa, 700 N Greenwood Ave, Tulsa, OK 74106, USAPolicy 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.
- May 27, 2021, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM CDTOklahoma State University-Tulsa, 700 N Greenwood Ave, Tulsa, OK 74106, USADr. 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.
- May 27, 2021, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM CDTOklahoma State University-Tulsa, 700 N Greenwood Ave, Tulsa, OK 74106, USAHistorian, 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.
- May 27, 2021, 11:45 AM – 12:45 PM CDTOklahoma State University-Tulsa, 700 N Greenwood Ave, Tulsa, OK 74106, USADr. 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.
- May 27, 2021, 9:20 AM CDT – May 28, 2021, 10:20 AM CDTOklahoma State University-Tulsa, 700 N Greenwood Ave, Tulsa, OK 74106, USADr. 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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