Snedeker said those resources include the Tulsa Historical Society’s Race Riot iPad application, materials from the John Hope Franklin Center and the Tulsa City-County Library, and professional development seminars and courses.

Marshall is skeptical that the riot is being thoroughly covered, even in Tulsa.

“When I talk to other students, it’s not being taught,” he said.

Marshall said he relates the riot to the 1950s’ and 1960s’ civil rights movement and even to the present time. He talks about how segregation and its slow demise affected the small businesses that were the basis of the Greenwood District’s reputation as the Black Wall Street.

The most important lesson, he said, is the resilience of the people who survived the riot and remained in Tulsa.

“It’s how to persevere, how to move forward,” Marshall said. “At the same time, you can’t move forward by forgetting.”