Greenwood Rising field trip photojournalism

By Dominic Leading Fox

Last Wednesday, students taking part in a research group dedicated to the Tulsa Race Massacre took a field trip to Greenwood to learn and experience the history of the city’s well known tragedy. These photos follow the students on their trip through Greenwood, chaperoned by Mrs. McBride and Mrs. McCammon.

Greenwood Rising’s front sign. Photo taken by Dominic Leading Fox

Greenwood Rising, a dynamic historical center that not only tells Greenwood’s story, but allows the visitors to experience it as well. 

Students in the meeting room. Photo taken by Sophia Hunt

The students arrived at OSU Tulsa, and were able to ask questions before they embarked on their trip.

Photo of students at the Ellis Walker Woods Memorial. Photos by Sophia Hunt (top), Dominic Leading Fox (bottom).

The students visited the Ellis Walker Woods Memorial, dedicated to the first principal of Booker T. Washington high school, who served the positinic Leading Fox (bottom).ion for 35 years.

The memorial is roughly where the original Booker T. Washington High was located.

Photos of the Mabel B. Little Heritage House, Black Wall Street Memorial and Black Wall St. highway mural, by Dominic Leading Fox and Sophia Hunt.

The students visited the Mabel B. Little Heritage House, a house constructed a few years after the massacre to display the living standards in Greenwood at the time. They also visited the first ever memorial built for the massacre, which was constructed in the 1990s.

Photo of Black Wall Street sign just outside of Greenwood Rising, and photo of students around a lost business memorial in Greenwood. Photos by Dominic Leading Fox and Sophia Hunt.

The students finally made it to Greenwood Rising, where they experienced a sliver of the trauma held by Tulsa Race Massacre victims and their families. After, to end on a light note, they visited a Black-owned popsicle store on Greenwood Ave called Frios, and each got a delicious popsicle.