Archive Record
Images
Metadata
Catalog Number |
2019.163.016 |
Collection |
Logsdon, Guy |
Object Name |
Article |
Date |
June 1971 |
Scope & Content |
Photocopy of a five-page article published in June 1971 in Impact Magazine entitled "Impact Raps with W. D. Williams." The article consists of a transcript of an interview conducted by Impact Magazine of W. D. Williams, the son of John Wesley Williams and Loula Cotten Williams, owners of the Dreamland Theatre in the Greenwood District. In this interview Williams speaks about African Americans in Tulsa, OK during the early 1900s and about the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, giving many details concerning the event. Williams graduated from Washington High School and Hampton Institute in Virginia. He returned to Tulsa and taught school for forty-two years, retiring in 1970. |
Search Terms |
Blacks Dreamland Theatre Greenwood District Ku Klux Klan Mt. Zion Baptist Church racism Tulsa Race Massacre |
People |
Cleaver, Barney S. Garvey, Marcus Goodwin, James Henri Roland, Dick Williams, John Wesley Williams, Loula Cotten Williams, William Danforth |