Reed Park & Community Center

The video is so powerful we don't think we need to say too much other than thank you National Park Service & we rise with you! https://www.nps.gov//africanamericanher/twenty-and-odd.htm #blackhistoryinparks #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackHistoryIsAmericanHistory

Reed will close at 4:00pm today and remain closed through Thursday 2-24.

Thanks Bike Club! Bales Park is just south of us at 5801 S. Union Ave.!

Thanks Bike Club! Bales Park is just south of us at 5801 S. Union Ave.!

Booker T. Washington is a world-class high school, ranked as one of the top high schools in the US. In 2009 and 2016 the school received the coveted distinction... of being a Blue-Ribbon School by the United States government for being academically superior. The first school in Tulsa was a two-row wooden building built in 1908, it served grades 1 through 8 until 1913. Booker T. Washington High School was officially founded in 1913 to serve the citizens of the African American community. By 1920 the high school went from a small four-room school to a three-story brick building. The high school escaped destruction during the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. Following the massacre, American Red Cross used the school as its headquarters for a hospital facility, a dental clinic, a venereal disease clinic, and a medical dispensary. About 2,000 people were temporarily sheltered there and the red cross inoculated, about 1,800 refugees against tetanus, typhoid, and smallpox. Booker T. Washington was chosen in 1973 to be the vehicle for Tulsa's school desegregation program. Tulsa was and still is racially divided along north-south lines, the school is in north Tulsa making it the first integration in a historically African American school. This school was established as a magnet school and serves students from every racial, ethnic, religious, and socio-economic group in Tulsa. In 2020, Booker T. Washington High School celebrated its 107th year.

Booker T. Washington is a world-class high school, ranked as one of the top high schools in the US. In 2009 and 2016 the school received the coveted distinction... of being a Blue-Ribbon School by the United States government for being academically superior. The first school in Tulsa was a two-row wooden building built in 1908, it served grades 1 through 8 until 1913. Booker T. Washington High School was officially founded in 1913 to serve the citizens of the African American community. By 1920 the high school went from a small four-room school to a three-story brick building. The high school escaped destruction during the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. Following the massacre, American Red Cross used the school as its headquarters for a hospital facility, a dental clinic, a venereal disease clinic, and a medical dispensary. About 2,000 people were temporarily sheltered there and the red cross inoculated, about 1,800 refugees against tetanus, typhoid, and smallpox. Booker T. Washington was chosen in 1973 to be the vehicle for Tulsa's school desegregation program. Tulsa was and still is racially divided along north-south lines, the school is in north Tulsa making it the first integration in a historically African American school. This school was established as a magnet school and serves students from every racial, ethnic, religious, and socio-economic group in Tulsa. In 2020, Booker T. Washington High School celebrated its 107th year.

Tulsa Parks' Black History Scavenger Hunt Take an adventure with Tulsa Parks to learn all about the black history within our local city parks. Use this clue ...sheet to help find the locations within the parks & you can look for signs along the way that point you in the right direction. Happy history hunting! Take photos along your way and tag Tulsa Parks using #TulsaParksBHM #BlackHistoryTulsa!

Tulsa Parks' Black History Scavenger Hunt Take an adventure with Tulsa Parks to learn all about the black history within our local city parks. Use this clue ...sheet to help find the locations within the parks & you can look for signs along the way that point you in the right direction. Happy history hunting! Take photos along your way and tag Tulsa Parks using #TulsaParksBHM #BlackHistoryTulsa!

Does your kiddo(s) have plans for Spring Break? If not, we've got a week of fun & adventure we're sure they'll love! Enrollment is now open for all our day camp locations! Enroll online here: https://guide.tulsaparks.org/CourseActivities.aspx

Does your kiddo(s) have plans for Spring Break? If not, we've got a week of fun & adventure we're sure they'll love! Enrollment is now open for all our day camp locations! Enroll online here: https://guide.tulsaparks.org/CourseActivities.aspx

Nice! So, who wants to play the beautiful game this spring? Be sure to register your kiddo(s) ASAP! https://guide.tulsaparks.org/CourseActivities.aspx

Nice! So, who wants to play the beautiful game this spring? Be sure to register your kiddo(s) ASAP! https://guide.tulsaparks.org/CourseActivities.aspx

On the morning of May 30, 1921, a young black man named Dick Rowland was riding in the elevator in the Drexel Building at Third and Main with a white woman name...d Sarah Page. The details of what followed vary from person to person. Accounts of an incident circulated among the city’s white community during the day and became more exaggerated with each telling. Tulsa police arrested Rowland the following day and began an investigation. An inflammatory report in the May 31 edition of the Tulsa Tribune spurred a confrontation between black and white armed mobs around the courthouse where the sheriff and his men had barricaded the top floor to protect Rowland. Shots were fired and the outnumbered African Americans began retreating to the Greenwood District. In the early morning hours of June 1, 1921, Greenwood was looted and burned by white rioters. Governor Robertson declared martial law, and National Guard troops arrived in Tulsa. Guardsmen assisted firemen in putting out fires, took African Americans out of the hands of vigilantes and imprisoned all black Tulsans not already interned. Over 6,000 people were held at the Convention Hall and the Fairgrounds, some for as long as eight days. Twenty-four hours after the violence erupted, it ceased. In the wake of the violence, 35 city blocks lay in charred ruins, more than 800 people were treated for injuries and contemporary reports of deaths began at 36. Historians now believe as many as 300 people may have died.

On the morning of May 30, 1921, a young black man named Dick Rowland was riding in the elevator in the Drexel Building at Third and Main with a white woman name...d Sarah Page. The details of what followed vary from person to person. Accounts of an incident circulated among the city’s white community during the day and became more exaggerated with each telling. Tulsa police arrested Rowland the following day and began an investigation. An inflammatory report in the May 31 edition of the Tulsa Tribune spurred a confrontation between black and white armed mobs around the courthouse where the sheriff and his men had barricaded the top floor to protect Rowland. Shots were fired and the outnumbered African Americans began retreating to the Greenwood District. In the early morning hours of June 1, 1921, Greenwood was looted and burned by white rioters. Governor Robertson declared martial law, and National Guard troops arrived in Tulsa. Guardsmen assisted firemen in putting out fires, took African Americans out of the hands of vigilantes and imprisoned all black Tulsans not already interned. Over 6,000 people were held at the Convention Hall and the Fairgrounds, some for as long as eight days. Twenty-four hours after the violence erupted, it ceased. In the wake of the violence, 35 city blocks lay in charred ruins, more than 800 people were treated for injuries and contemporary reports of deaths began at 36. Historians now believe as many as 300 people may have died.