Many of the WBWS women lived and worked around the intersection of Archer and Greenwood. Rather than tell you, we thought we would show you.
Simply click on each map, for a larger rendering.
Map 1: Shows the residences and businesses of the 10 women in WBWS. Their closeness suggests at least a few knew each other.
Map 2: Plots the homes and residences of the 10 WBWS women and landmark Greenwood businesses.
Map 3: Shows the residences of Mary Jones Parrish and Blanche Woodford. Both women worked out of their homes.
Map 4: Shows Dora Wells’s Garment Factory and Hair Manufacturing School.
For these maps, we especially called on the expertise of Sean Thomas, Ph.D. Student in the Department of Geography at Oklahoma State University.
Sean researches at the intersection of geography of memory, social justice, carceral geographies, and Black geographies. His is currently creating a map of historic Greenwood that shows property ownership and how it changed hands over time. The projects includes Deep Greenwood that the city or state government took over through eminent for the I-244 highway project, OSU-Tulsa, and Driller’s Stadium. The map will be converted into an app for people to use when walking around Greenwood to provide insight for local stakeholders into the properties that their ancestors owned.
Sean developed these maps using the Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Tulsa available in the Library of Congress.1Tulsa County, Oklahoma. Sanborn Map Company, 1915 to 1939 Vol. 1; Republished 1939, 1939. Map. https://www.loc.gov/item/sanborn07276_010/.
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