By Russell LaCour
Three leading Tulsa storytellers used a panel discussion last week to share how they are working in different ways to keep the narrative of the Historic Greenwood District and Black Wall Street in the eyes and ears of the public.
Carlos Moreno, graphic designer and author, is developing a project to map out the Greenwood neighborhood. It will be an interactive map depicting the community building by building. He’s also working on filming stories of Greenwood. The project will help him elevate the narrative of Black Wall Street depicted in his 2021 book “Victory of Greenwood.”
TheRese Anderson-Aduni has produced a video presentation highlighting some of the less celebrated characters of Greenwood, including maids, drivers, shoe shiners and even scoundrels. Anderson-Aduni, who has worked in collaboration with the Greenwood Arts Project, is a third-generation survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre. Her father, the Rev. Harold Anderson, was an amateur filmmaker who chronicled Black business and community leaders on film in the 1940s through the 1960s. She has put together presentations of her father’s work in a documentary “Rebuilding Black Wall Street.”