WBWS calls upon the assistance of many experts and institutions.    

Luke Williams, Archivist and curator of Collections at the Tulsa Historical Society and Museum, provided access to photographs and media to support the website’s 2025 refresh;

Jacqueline Luevano, OSU Graduate, May 2025, joined the project and revamped the website design in 2024-2025. See more of her work here;

 Craig Freeman, Director of OSU School of Media and Strategic Communications supported the project from its start in 2021, including connecting Wells with speakers, sending two dynamic students from his department, and promoting the website among his networks;

Stacy Tackas, Associate Professor, OSU American Studies, aided Professor Wells in thinking through how to teach a digital methods course online during a pandemic, no less. She shared resources and advice. Be sure to check out Dr. Tackas’ and her AMST 3683 course’s digital project: Cinders in the Sky: The Legacy of the Tulsa Race Massacre;

Clarke Iakovakis, Edmon Low Library, OSU was a resource in every way. In addition to helping us to understand copyright and fair use, he conducted a hands-on workshop on OSU databases and curated a library guide for the Tulsa Race Massacre and Oklahoma History; 

Victor Luckerson, author of Built from the Fire, joined in various class session over the years and told how he got his start in historical journalism as well as blogging: Run It Back; 

Madison Chartier and Patrice-Andre Pierre Prud’homme, Edmon Low Library taught us about meta-data and digitization and included students in a metadata project for the Drummer, an underground newspaper at OSU from 1961-1975; 

Alicia Odweale, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Tulsa joined Brandy Thomas Wells in conversation on November 19th about her brilliant “Mapping Historical Trauma in Tulsa project (a co-directed project with Dr. Parker VanValkenburgh);

 Jennifer Borland, Director of the OSU Digital Humanities Institute provided the funding for Dr. Odewale’s visit and enthusiastically supported the WBWS website;

Kevin Dyke, Maps and Spatial Data Curator, OSU Libraries conducted a fantastic hands-on workshop during one of class sessions on spatial history and GIS-Mapping;

Sean Thomas, Ph.D. Candidate in OSU Department of Geography gave a guest lecture on his GIS mapping project that explores how changes in property ownership and eminent domain reshaped Greenwood. He produced terrific maps for WBWS’s biographies; 

Brian Hosmer, Department Head, OSU History, provided funding to hire interns in 2021 and 2021;

Susan Oliver, Senior Administrative Support Specialist, OSU History Department, did troubleshooting on a whole host of technological, financial, and human problems;

Dawnett Watkins,  IRB Manager of the Oklahoma State Institutional Review Board, provided quick and thorough explanations of the IRB application related to this project. 

Jennifer King, the descendent of three Greenwood business owners, allowed us to interview her on several occasions about her family. She also shared with us her family recreation of Susie Bell’s famous smothered chicken recipe;

Gina Woods and Cheyenne McKinney, business owners in Tulsa, gave generously of their time to inform us about their businesses and reflect on the past;

Anneliese Bruner, who is keeping the legacy of Greenwood alive especially that of her great-grandmother, Mary Jones Parrish. She spoke with Dr. Wells about Parrish and cleared up dates in Parrish’s life;

Makayla Swanson, Elizabeth Thomas, and Brett Smith who joined the project as digital interns. They did fantastic work and generated brilliant ideas.

Thank you also to the reviewers of the site: Laura Arata, Sarah Foss, Sarah Griswold, and Holly Karibo in the OSU Department of History; Clarke Iakovakis in OSU Libraries, LaRicka Wingate in OSU Psychology, Cristina Cruz González of OSU Art, Graphic Design, and Art History, and Mora J Beauchamp-Byrd at the University of Tampa.