Folk Sources and New Narratives in Oklahoma

This Curriculum Guide represents one part of a three-year study engaging the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre through primary sources. Included in these lesson plans and units of study are discoveries, tools for teaching, activity prompts, and deep pedagogical engagement from oral historians, cultural geographers, artists, historians, veteran teachers, and folklorists.
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This curriculum packet includes worksheets, primary source sets, and graphic organizers ready to download for educational use. Please review activities and determine what worksheet or primary source copies need to be made for your learning space.
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This curriculum packet is supported in part by an award from the Teaching with Primary Sources program of the Library of Congress. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed by authors are their own.

CONTENT CREATED AND FEATURED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE TPS PROGRAM DOES NOT INDICATE AN ENDORSEMENT BY THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.

This packet represents one part of a three-year study engaging the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre through primary sources. Included in these lesson plans and units of study are discoveries, tools for teaching, activity prompts, and deep pedagogical engagement from oral historians, cultural geographers, artists, historian, veteran teachers, and folklorists.

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This Curriculum Guide offers these primary learning objectives for our resources:
1) Scaffold foundational knowledge around ethnographic primary sources as key historical resources for learning,
2) Demonstrate how community narratives reframe notions of the “expert”, and
3) Engage dialog among diverse learners to facilitate deeper understanding of communities and their stories—a task that proves particularly significant in the current political environment.