Keep Graham Beautiful’s online survey regarding the water tank on top of Standpipe Mountain in Graham came to close with over 1,300 responses submitted. The non-operational water tank is currently atop the hill for aesthetic purposes, but due to safety concerns the organization was gauging interest in the tank being repaired, replaced or removed from its current location.
The KGB organization is an all-volunteer service organization in Graham which organizes activities to clean up the city. The organization is coordinated by a nine-member board of directors and works in partnership with the Graham Public Works Department and city of Graham.
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 →
On the 100th anniversary of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, survivors and descendants gathered Monday at Standpipe Hill, where Black World War I veterans
According to official records, fewer than 40 people died during the Tulsa Race Massacre. But it’s believed white attackers killed as many as 300 people,
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