Tulsa, Transportation, and Tragedy

Sun Jun 23 2024 at 10:30 am to 12:00 pm

Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library | Washington

WTS-DC Hospitality Committee
Publisher/HostWTS-DC Hospitality Committee
Tulsa, Transportation, and Tragedy
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How Modes of Transportation Affected the Tulsa Massacre
About this Event

In this presentation, Dr. Kimberly C. Ellis will recount the Tulsa Race Riot, War, and Massacre of 1921, with a particular lens on transportation modes and policies which contributed to the demise of Tulsa’s Greenwood business and residential community and how today’s legislations and legal strategies could right some of the wrong, over a century later.

Kimberly C. Ellis, Ph.D. is a Scholar of American and Africana Studies, an Artist, Activist and Entrepreneur, as well as a playwright, world traveler and international thought leader on culture, gender and social technology.

Dr. Ellis appeared as a lead historian and storyteller in the “Tulsa Burning” documentary, which debuted on The History Channel on May 31, 2021. In July 2017, she served as a member of the Tulsa delegation for the Initiatives of Change, "Just Governance for Human Security" Conference in Caux, Switzerland. At that conference, she also earned a "Human Security X" certificate under the purview of the United Nations' "Initiatives of Change" program. Dr. Kimberly C. Ellis was a featured speaker on domestic terrorism on a plenary panel for the 2001 State of the Black World Conference in Atlanta, GA and subsequently published in The Paradox of Loyalty: An African American Response to the War on Terror, ed. by Julianne Malveaux, Ph.D. and Regina Green. She continues to educate the public about the worst and still unresolved case of domestic terrorism in United States’ History.


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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G Street Northwest, Washington, United States

Tickets

USD 15.00 to USD 25.00

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