Urban Renewal: A Tulsan Perspective - ArcGIS StoryMaps
Feb 22, 2024 · Using Tulsa, Oklahoma as a case study, we can explore the long-term effects of Urban Renewal—specifically highway construction—on a city today.
Decades After the Tulsa Race Massacre, Urban 'Renewal' Sparked Black ...
Jun 2, 2021 · Thanks to recent scholarship and pop culture depictions of the massacre in Greenwood, more and more Americans are coming to know the story of the Tulsa Race …
Michael Overall: Tulsa's 'forgotten' urban renewal ... - Tulsa World
Aug 7, 2022 · Now being converted into a Veterans Affairs hospital, the Kerr-Edmondson state office complex opened in 1975 as part of a wider urban renewal effort to reshape downtown …
Speakers: Urban renewal an ‘American tragedy’ for Greenwood
Apr 9, 2024 · By 1978, what remained of Greenwood was practically a ghost town, with as many as 300 businesses and 900 households dislocated during those years. Don Thompson was …
Tulsa World editorial: Tulsa urban renewal agency gets its ears …
Mar 28, 2019 · The Tulsa City Council got it right when it indefinitely tabled two development plans proposed by the Tulsa Development Authority on Wednesday night. The move came …
History of Tulsa, Oklahoma - Urban Renewal: 1960 - 1980
Tulsa was the first major Oklahoma city to begin an urban renewal program. The Tulsa Urban Renewal Authority was formed in July, 1959. Its first project, the Seminole Hills Project, a …
The Lingering Legacies Of Urban Renewal To Be Highlighted
Jan 29, 2024 · “In the 1970s, Urban Renewal and Eminent Domain assaulted the Greenwood district soon after the city of Tulsa declared Greenwood a “Ghetto.” Urban Renewal (Black and …
Smithsonian Magazine: Decades After the Tulsa Race Massacre, Urban …
Apr 21, 2021 · Smithsonian Magazine: Decades After the Tulsa Race Massacre, Urban ‘Renewal’ Sparked Black Wall Street’s Second Destruction What often gets erased in writing about the …
Tulsa’s Greenwood neighborhood burned a century ago. But ‘urban renewal …
In his new book set to be released next week, “The Victory of Greenwood,” Moreno explores how the neighborhood had a second renaissance led by Black Tulsans after the massacre, …
Greenwood: 'Renewal' | City Desk | tulsapeople.com
Mar 31, 2021 · According to a recent study by Human Rights Watch, more than 1,000 homes were destroyed in the Greenwood area to make way for urban renewal. Mabel B. Little, whose …
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