Tulsa’s Slow Integration

by Abby Wendle

05/28/2014

John W. Franklin is the grandson of an African American lawyer who survived the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot.  He’s been coming back to Tulsa since infancy to visit family in Greenwood. Here, Franklin shares his grandfather’s memories of the race riot, his father’s memories of racism, and his own memories of the beginnings of racial healing in our city.