Director and Editor

Women of Black Wall Street

This award-winning, publicly engaged, collaborative digital history project chronicles the lives of Black women who lived and worked in Greenwood during the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. It reveals this population’s rich and varied contributions as business owners and operators, church, and community activists, and analyzes their social, economic, and intellectual contributions. As WBWS’s founder-editor, I lead and supervise undergraduate students in authoring biographies, writing contextual essays, and producing maps and other material for the website. Students hone valuable research and digital literacy and public history skills, while engaging in canon expansion.