For decades I was an Oklahoma History teacher in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Growing up in Tulsa there was indeed “a conspiracy of silence” regarding these tragic, horrific events, nothing ever discussed or covered about them in schools. Then a former Tulsa KOTV reporter, Skip Nicholson produced Greenwood Blues, The Tulsa Race War of 1921 for KOCO-TV 5 in Oklahoma City in 1983, followed by Tulsan Jilda Unruh producing Tulsa’s Secret: The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 for KTUL-TV in 1985. Later the History Channel under Sean P Geary and Mark Montgomery produced In Search of History: The Night Tulsa Burned, in … Continue reading →