The Tulsa Race Massacre and Fire - May 31

Tuesday, May 31, 2022

Today is National Macaroon Day, National Smile Day, and World Parrot Day.

May is Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Johnstown Flood, Walt Whitman, and Parrots
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ON THIS DATE

• 1790 - The United States enacts its first copyright statute, the Copyright Act of 1790.
• 1889 - A dam break floods Johnstown, Pennsylvania, killing over 2,000.
• 1911 - The RMS Titanic is launched.
  1913 - The 17th Amendment, allowing for the popular election of U.S. senators, goes into effect.
• 1921 -  The Tulsa race massacre kills up to  300.
• 1990 - The sitcom Seinfeld premieres
• 2005 - Former FBI official Mark Felt is identified as Deepthroat.
• 2017 - President Donald Trump tweets the word "covfefe." 

BIRTHDAYS

• 1819 - Poet Walt Whitman
• 1852 - German microbiologist Julius Richard Petri
• 1918 - Chemist Lloyd Quarterman
• 1930 - Actor, director, and producer Clint Eastwood
• 1938 - Singer-songwriter Johnny Paycheck
• 1943 - Football player Joe Namath
• 1948 - English drummer for Led Zeppelin John Bonham
• 1957 - Hockey goaltender Jim Craig
• 1964 - Rapper Darryl "D.M.C." McDaniels,

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Johnny Paycheck - Take This Job and Shove It - LISTEN
• Run DMC - It's Tricky -LISTEN
• Led Zepplin - When The Levee Breaks - LISTEN

THEME: The Tulsa Race Massacre and Fire

• Grades 7-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Tulsa: The Fire and the Forgotten Collection - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 7-12 - PBS LearningMedia - PBS NewsHour - The Tulsa Massacre’s Effects on the Black Community 100 Years Later (6:48) -  VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour - How Art is Retelling the Powerful Stories of the Tulas Massacre (7:15) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour - Tulsa Revisited Special (26:46) -  VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Tulsa: The Fire and the Forgotten (1:24:44) - VIEW
  
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Tulsa: The Fire and the Forgotten Panel Discussion (57:57) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 -  NHPBS Video - Tulsa Race Massacre 100 Years Later (59:00) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Black Issues Forum - Remembering Tulsa and Investing for Racial Equity (26:46) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - American Black Journal - Juneteenth/The Tulsa Race Massacre (23:55) -VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - American Experience - Goin' Back to T-Town (53:28) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - Library of Congress - Tulsa Race Massacre Research Guide - READ
• Grades 7-12 - Oklahoma Libraries - Tulsa Race Massacre - READ
• Grades 7-12 - National Endowments for the Humanities - Tulsa Race Massacre - READ
• Grades 7-12 - C-Span - Tulsa Race Massacre Lesson Plan - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 7-12 - NY Times - Teaching About the Tulsa Race Massacre - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 7-12 - Tulsa Historical Society and Museum - Tulsa Race Massacre - VIEW, READ, LISTEN
• Grades 7-12 - National Museum of African American History - Tulsa Objects - EXPLORE

Pressroom Contact

Carla Gordon Russell
Director of Communications
crussell@nhpbs.org
(603) 868-4339