The Tulsa Race Massacre and Fire - May 31

Learning About Our History

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

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