"Unearthing a Riot", 1999-12-19

Brent Staples, "Unearthing a Riot," with Portraits by Fred R. Conrad, in The New York Times Magazine, December 19, 1999, 64-69. Long format report about the work of the Tulsa Race Riot Commission and its impact on Tulsa. It includes a brief outline of the history of Greenwood, the events of the Riot, the social atmosphere that led to it, and its aftermath specific vignettes as recounted by witnesses who spoke to the Commission, interviews with Commission members like Don Ross and sketches of their life stories, and the history of the recovery of the history by people like Ross, and journalist Ed Wheeler.