MNHRC Presents: Reinterpretation of the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot
March 12, 2020
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
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845 S. Damen Ave., Third Floor Event Center, Chicago, IL 60612
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Presented by Barbra Mann Wall
Event description: This Midwest Nursing History Research Center talk focuses not on collaborative responses of primarily white workers of the American Red Cross during the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 but rather on asking new questions: What would the story of a disaster response look like if the focus was on sources written by people of color? How do historians decenter a narrative of whites writing themselves into history to save others?
Reinterpretation involves writing a more inclusive historical narrative. The presentation is contextualized in the early 20th century during a period of “domestic terrorism” that witnessed hundreds of deaths as a result of anti-black white supremacist attacks all over the U.S.
There will be a reception following the talk in the Midwest Nursing History Research Center, located on the fourth floor of the UIC College of Nursing-Chicago.
Speaker: Barbra Mann Wall, PhD, RN, FAAN, holds the Thomas A. Saunders III Professorship in Nursing at the University of Virginia School of Nursing, where she is Director of the Eleanor Crowder Bjoring Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry. She received her BSN from the University of Texas at Austin and her MS from Texas Woman’s University. She earned a PhD in History from the University of Notre Dame. She has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and by university and private grants.
Wall has published three books: Unlikely Entrepreneurs: Catholic Sisters and the Hospital Marketplace, 1865-1925 (Ohio State University Press, 2005), American Catholic Hospitals: A Century of Changing Markets and Missions (Rutgers University Press, 2011), and Into Africa: A Transnational History of Catholic Missions and Social Change (Rutgers University Press, 2015).
Wall is also co-editor of two books on disaster nursing, and she is the editor-in-chief of Health Emergency and Disaster Nursing, the official journal of the Disaster Nursing Global Leader Degree Program.
Date posted
Feb 6, 2020
Date updated
Oct 31, 2022