ABOUT THE CREATORS
Women of Black Wall Street was produced at Oklahoma State University in HIST 4073: Digital Methods in History, Fall 2020. The course was taught by Dr. Brandy Thomas Wells, Assistant Professor of History. The thematic focus for the course was the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.
DR. BRANDY THOMAS WELLS
Project Director and Course Instructor
Dr. Wells is an historian of United States history with specializations in African American and women and gender histories. Her research interests especially center these population’s organizational activities and empowerment.
Dr. Wells is currently writing her first book on African American women’s internationalism through civic and social organizations, the United Nations, and the State Department.
She teaches several courses at Oklahoma State University including surveys of U.S. history, Black Women in the U.S., African American History to and since 1865, and Oklahoma History.
Her experiences in these courses and the historic centennial of the Tulsa Race Massacre led her to adopt this historic event as thematic focus for the course on historical digital methods in Fall 2020.
Students in Dr. Wells’s future courses at Oklahoma State University will deepen this project and continue to contribute to Greenwood’s, Tulsa’s, Oklahoma’s, and American history.
INTERNS
In Spring 2021, two students from the course worked with Dr. Wells as interns to put the website together.
MAKAYLA SWANSONM
ELIZABETH THOMAS
BRETT SMITH