Gathering Greenwood

This project was supported by Grant No.15BJA-22-GG-01763-EMME awarded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance. The Bureau of Justice Assistance is a component of the Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs, which also includes the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the Office for Victims of Crime, and the SMART Office.

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• Census records sourced from the U.S. National Archives and geolocated by project volunteers.
• Raster overlays derived from Sanborn fire insurance maps and historical aerial photography collections.

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Imagery

• Greenwood Cultural Center building photograph — by Marc Carlson, licensed CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons; resized for display.
• Greenwood District street scenes (before 1921 and ca. 1922) — Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (objects 2011.60.4 and 2011.60.5), public domain. Shown as period context, not photographs of the specific places featured.
• Sanborn Fire Insurance Map of Tulsa, 1915 — Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, Sanborn Maps Collection, public domain.