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Tulsa, Transportation, and Tragedy: How Modes of Transportation Affected the Tulsa Massacre
Sunday, June 23, 2024 | 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G Street NW, Washington, DC 20001
In this presentation, Dr. Kimberly C. Ellis will recount the Tulsa Race Riot, War, and Massacre of 1921, with a particular lens on transportation modes and policies that contributed to the demise of Tulsa’s Greenwood business and residential community and how today’s legislation and legal strategies could right some of the wrong, more than a century later.
Kimberly C. Ellis, Ph.D. is a Scholar of American and Africana Studies, an Artist, Activist and Entrepreneur, as well as a playwright, world traveler and international thought leader on culture, gender, and social technology.
Dr. Ellis appeared as a lead historian and storyteller in the “Tulsa Burning” documentary, which debuted on The History Channel on May 31, 2021. In July 2017, she served as a member of the Tulsa delegation for the Initiatives of Change, "Just Governance for Human Security" Conference in Caux, Switzerland. At that conference, she also earned a "Human Security X" certificate under the purview of the United Nations' "Initiatives of Change" program. Dr. Kimberly C. Ellis was a featured speaker on domestic terrorism on a plenary panel for the 2001 State of the Black World Conference in Atlanta, Georgia, and subsequently published in The Paradox of Loyalty: An African American Response to the War on Terror, ed. by Julianne Malveaux, Ph.D. and Regina Green. She continues to educate the public about the worst and still unresolved case of domestic terrorism in United States’ History.
Contact
Please contact the WTS-DC Program Logistics committee at [email protected], if you have any questions about this event.
Transportation
Metrorail Stations:
Blue, Orange, and Silver lines - Metro Center
Green and Yellow lines - Gallery Place-Chinatown
Red Line - Metro Center, Gallery Place-Chinatown
Several bus routes serve the area, and Capital Bikeshare stations are available nearby. Paid parking garages and street parking are limited.