In this episode of Public Secrets, historian Lee Roy Chapman delves into the infamous Sex Pistols show at Tulsa's Cain's Ballroom in 1978.

by Lee Roy Chapman Photo by the Author. A similar exterior shot of this house is featured in Larry Clark's 1971 photobook Tulsa . Located...

By all accounts, fallen Tulsa Police Commissioner Secretary Harry Harrison Aurandt's burial at Rose Hill Cemetery was quite a spectacle. An unannounced group of 12 Klansmen in full ceremonial regalia approached the funeral tent from the south carrying a large flaming cross of red roses to pay tribute to Aurandt.

Dr. S.G. Kennedy was furious. He had put his trust and money in a young man, who seemed to be making a name for himself in Tulsa, a former Wichita newspaper reporter who had once served as a private secretary to Congressman Bird McGuire of Oklahoma. Myron Boyle was the editor of the Indian Republican, one of Tulsa’s earliest weekly newspapers, which had been founded in 1891.

Atkins belonged to Coweta Town, an ancient tribal town that was relocated to Indian Territory when he was a young child.

I was not expecting to find lost treasure as I shifted through a pile of paperwork. But there was one thing that caught my eye: a series of

By Randy Hopkins Courtesy of Tulsa Booker T. Washington High School. In the fall of 1921, students began returning to Tulsa, Oklahoma's...

Tommy was a Muscogee boy whose land was worth many millions of dollars in 1914. The only problem was that he may have never existed.

The FBI had cause to be concerned. Hargis’ tirades mirrored those from any number of early 20th century Ku Klux Klan pamphlets.

The Greenwood rebuilding “plan” was a major feature of the second full day of national news coverage of the then-called Tulsa Race Riot.

There's no listing for this prisoner during June or July. This supports claims that Roland was removed from the jail soon after his arrival.

Learn about James Jones, better known as "Diamond Dick" Rowland, the teenager at the center of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.

by Steve Gerkin J.B. Stradford We will never understand. How could we allow the racial brutality of slavery, the lynching of Blacks as...