The class is open to credit-seeking students and non-credit-seeking community members who are interested in discovering more about Tulsa’s historic Greenwood district from 1850 to present, including the massacre on May 31-June 1, 1921.

“I know about the massacre only because my father was alive then, and he told me,” said Carolyn Ellis, one of the students in Lansana’s class.

Captola Dunn, a 1948 graduate of Booker T. Washington High School, focused her project on her high school principal, Ellis Walker Woods.

With her final project for the class complete, Dunn will share her history with a younger audience via an online “inter-generational dialogue” during the John Hope Franklin Center for Reconciliation’s 2020 national virtual symposium.

After learning something new about the history of Tulsa and Black Wall Street, Ellis is looking forward to sharing it with a younger audience.