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The Legacy of Urban Renewal on Tulsa's Black Wall Street
Fri, Oct 03
|Fort Scott
Urban renewal radically changed Tulsa’s landscape in the 1960’s and ’70’s in ways that many residents were deeply opposed to.


Time & Location
Oct 03, 2025, 11:00 AM – 11:45 AM
Fort Scott, 2108 Horton St, Fort Scott, KS 66701, USA
About the event
11:00 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. “The Legacy of Urban Renewal on Tulsa's Black Wall Street” Urban renewal radically changed Tulsa’s landscape in the 1960’s and ’70’s in ways that many residents were deeply opposed to. Don Thompson, historian and photographer, will share his firsthand documentation from that era with powerful visuals from that time as well as an historical perspective on how Greenwood residents, still rebuilding after the 1921 Tulsa Massacre, experienced those tumultuous years. In the FSCC Ellis Fine Arts Center. FREE.