ABOUT THE CREATORS
Three Black women and one Black man receive assistance from Caucasian Red Cross workers at the Maurice Willows Hospital, established by the American Red Cross after the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. Courtesy of Tulsa Historical Society & Museum.
Women of Black Wall Street is produced at Oklahoma State University under the direction of Brandy Thomas Wells, Associate Professor of History.
DR. BRANDY THOMAS WELLS
Project Director and Course Instructor
Dr. Wells is a historian of United States history with specializations in African American and women’s and gender histories. Her research interests center on these populations’ organizational activities and empowerment.
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.
INTERNS
MAKAYLA SWANSON (2021)
OSU Graduate, 2021
ELIZABETH THOMAS (2021)
OSU Graduate 2021
BRETT SMITH (2024) CURRENT HISTORY MAJOR