Playlist: Black History Month Content from This Land Press
Compiled By: This Land Press
This playlist captures the experiences of black individuals living in and passing through Tulsa, Oklahoma. John Franklin, son of legendary black historian John Hope Franklin, remembers his grandfather's survival of the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 (track 1). Gordy Ryan shares his belief - as the first Caucasian drummer to play with Babatunde Olatunji: Drums of Passion - that music can transcend discrimination (track 4). Rufus Newsome, a black farmer, tells how he learned to love the earth as a weed chopper in Mississippi and Arkansas (track 2) and Mary McAnally, an older white woman, recounts organizing a freedom bus from Oklahoma to Montgomery, Ala. during the Civil Rights Movement (track 3).... Show full description