The Tulsa Race Massacre and Fire - May 31
Learning About Our History
Saturday, May 31, 2025
Today is National Macaroon Day, National Smile Day, and World Parrot Day.
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Tulsa Race Massacre and Fire
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."
- 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,
- 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 - 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 - 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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