General Resources

This special series of blog posts from the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History considers the long history of racial violence in the Midwest and its connections to the COVID-19 public health crisis and structural racism today.

Learn the story of the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 that destroyed almost 40 blocks of a wealthy black neighborhood known as the "Black Wall Street."

The plaintiff was Henrietta Wood, a bespectacled Black woman, about 60 years old. Defendant Zebulon Ward had enslaved her 25 years before.

Major American cities tend to be organized in their own particular racial pattern: In Chicago, it’s a north/south divide. In Austin, it’s west/east.