Special Broadcast: Featuring Hannibal B. Johnson, Esq. as we discuss the mass killing of black people by whites in Tulsa, OK in 1921.
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| Tulsa, OK 1921. The total number of black people killed will never be know. |
Progress in the World Radio Show
9 AM to 11 AM
Monday, 26 September 2016
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Hannibal B. Johnson is a graduate of Harvard Law School.
He did his undergraduate work at The University of Arkansas, where he completed
a double major in economics and sociology. Johnson is an attorney, author, and
independent consultant specializing in diversity & inclusion/cultural
competence issues and nonprofit governance. Johnson has also served as an
adjunct professor at The University of Tulsa College of Law (legal writing;
legal ethics), Oklahoma State University (leadership and group dynamics;
business law [MBA Program]), and the University of Oklahoma (ethics; cultural
diversity; race & reason; The 1921 Tulsa Race Riot; nonprofit leadership
& management).
Johnson
is past president of Leadership Tulsa, past president of the Metropolitan Tulsa
Urban League and past president of the Northeast Oklahoma Black Lawyers
Association. He served as Chairman of the board of directors of The Community
Leadership Association, an international leadership organization, during 2001 –
2002, and is a founding director of the Oklahoma Appleseed Center for Law and
Justice. He currently serves on the Oklahoma Advisory Committee for the United
States Commission on Civil Rights, and as Immediate Past Chairman of the board
of directors of the Oklahoma Department of Libraries. Johnson directed Anytown,
Oklahoma, a statewide human relations camp for teens, for more than a decade. He
has served on the board of Planned Parenthood of Arkansas and Eastern Oklahoma
and on the Advisory Board of the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Writers Conference
of the Southwest. Johnson served as chairman of board of directors of The
Rotary Club of Tulsa, 2015 – 2016, and chaired the Club’s Diversity and
Inclusion Committee during that same period.
He serves on the Institutional Review
Board for Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences, on the Tulsa
Public Schools Fine Arts Advisory Board and is a past chair of the board of
directors of the Foundation for Tulsa Schools. He has also served as a member
of the board of directors of the Oklahoma Humanities Council. He served on the
Programs Committee for the John Hope Franklin Center for Reconciliation and
organized the Center’s annual symposium for several years. In 2004, Mr. Johnson
graduated with the inaugural class of the national “Connecting Community
Fellowship Program” based in Richmond, Virginia.
Johnson’s books include: Images
of America: Tulsa’s Historic
Greenwood District; Black Wall Street--From Riot to Renaissance in Tulsa’s
Historic Greenwood District; Up
From the Ashes—A Story About
Community; Acres of Aspiration—The
All-Black Towns in Oklahoma; Mama Used To Say—Wit & Wisdom From The Heart & Soul; No Place Like Home—A Story About an All-Black, All-American
Town; IncogNegro—Poetic Reflections on Race & Diversity in America; and Apartheid in Indian Country?: Seeing
Red Over Black Disenfranchisement. Johnson’s play, Big Mama Speaks—A Tulsa Race Riot Survivor’s
Story, has been performed at
the Tulsa Performing Arts Center, Philbrook Museum of Art, and was selected for
the 2011 National Black Theatre
Festival in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Johnson is a contributing writer to the Encyclopedia of African American History (New York, New York: Facts on File, Inc. 2010), penning
two articles: Langston, Oklahoma and the Birth
of the All-Black Town Movement;
and Edward Preston McCabe—The Father of
the All-Black Town Movement).
Johnson’s honors include: the 2016 Whitney M. Young,
Jr., Service Award from the Boy Scouts of America; the 2015 National
Philanthropy Day Award for Diversity and Inclusion from the Association of
Fundraising Professionals; the 2013 “The Inclusives” diversity award from
Tulsa’s Young Professionals; the 2012 “Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher Diversity Award”
from the Oklahoma Bar Association; the “Don Newby/Ben Hill” award from Tulsa
Metropolitan Ministry; the “Keeping The Dream Alive” award from the Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr. Commemoration Society; the “Outstanding Service to the Public
Award” from the Oklahoma Bar Association; the “Ten Outstanding Young Tulsans”
award from the Tulsa Jaycees; the “Distinguished Leadership Award” from the
National Association for Community Leadership; the 2005 “Ralph Ellison Literary
Award” from the Black Liberated Arts Center; the 2006 Oklahoma Human Rights
Award from the Oklahoma Human Rights Commission; induction into the 100 Black Men of Tulsa,
Inc. “Hall of Honor” in 2007; and the “Goodwill Appreciation Award” from the
Islamic Society of Tulsa in 2008.
BOOKS BY
Hannibal
B. Johnson
- Apartheid
in Indian Country? looks at the
controversy over the citizenship status of the descendants of persons of
African ancestry who lived among the Five Civilized Tribes, the
“Freedmen.” The ancestors of some of the Freedmen were enslaved by the
Five Tribes, while others were free persons living among those tribes. The
Freedmen claim treaty, blood, and affinity relationships to the Five
Tribes. [Audience: high school students and adults] (Eakin Press; ISBN 13:
978-1-935632-34-4)
o
Black Wall
Street traces
the history of Tulsa’s African-American community, renowned nationally in the
early twentieth century for its preeminent Black entrepreneurs. Tulsa was the
site of the worst race riot in American history in 1921. Some 300 people were
killed and property damage ran into the millions. Tulsa’s African-Americans overcame. The
Greenwood District was rebuilt and, by 1942, boasted 242 black-owned and
black-operated business establishments. The book is a testament to the human
spirit. [Audience: high school students and adults] (Eakin Press; ISBN 193464538-9)
- Up
From The Ashes tells the story of the development, destruction,
and rebuilding of a dynamic neighborhood from a child’s perspective. Based
on actual historical events, it is a positive, life-affirming book.
Readers will discover what it means to be part of a community, with all
its ups and downs. The book
demonstrates many of the timeless virtues we all cherish, not just for
ourselves, but for our children: faith, determination, integrity, humility,
and compassion. [Audience: elementary school students] (Eakin Press; ISBN
978-1-940130-43-9)
o Acres of Aspiration tells the story of the all-Black towns in Oklahoma. Prominently in Kansas, then principally in
Oklahoma, all-black towns founded by black seekers mushroomed in the post-Reconstruction
era. Weary Southern migrants formed
their own frontier communities, largely self-sustaining. Black towns offered hope—hope of full
citizenship; hope of self-governance; and hope of full participation, through
land ownership, in the American dream. Despite an auspicious beginning, the
all-black town movement crested between 1890 and 1910, a time when American
capitalism transitioned from agrarian to urban. This and a host of other social
and economic factors ultimately sealed the fates of these unique, historic
oases. Many perished. Most faded. Only
the strong survived. The few that remain serve as testaments to the human
spirit and monuments to the power of hope, faith, and community. [Audience:
high school students and adults] (Eakin Press; ISBN 1-57168-664-9)
- Mama
Used to Say captures one
mother’s wit and wisdom on a whole host of twelve select topics: life
& living; family & relationships; right & wrong; money &
work; time; success & failure; race; religion; love; respect;
education; and integrity. At once
witty and poignant, Mama Used to Say,
through its anecdotes, adages, meditations, and reflections, offers the
reader opportunities for self-examination and personal growth. The common thread running through Mama Used to Say is the universality
of a mother’s love and seemingly boundless capacity for nurturing, not
just physically, but emotionally and spiritually as well. [Audience: high
school students and adults] (HAWK Publishing; ISBN 1-930709-46-3)
o IncogNegro recounts, poetically, stories of race and diversity.
Listen. Listening breeds empathy, evokes
compassion, and moves us a step closer to walking the proverbial mile in
someone else’s shoes. Everything begins with that first step. Ultimately, like
actors on the world stage, each of us has some role, however small, to play in
fostering an accepting, inclusive, diverse community. (PublishAmerica; ISBN
1-60474-696-3).
o Tulsa’s Historic Greenwood District recounts the Greenwood story in captioned photographs.
[Audience: high school students and adults] (Arcadia Publishing;
ISBN978-1-4671-1128-7)
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Hannibal B. Johnson, Esq.
Author, Attorney & Consultant
121
North Greenwood Avenue, Suite “G,” Tulsa, Oklahoma 74120
918.585.6770
(office); 918.406.8934 (cell); hjohnsonok@aol.com
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