by Tom DeWolf | May 14, 2012 | Author Stuff, Writing, Trauma and Healing
My writing partner Sharon Morgan and I presented a workshop at the John Hope Franklin National Symposium last year. It was our first workshop together. We sat with the editor of the Oklahoma Humanities Council magazine for lunch, who asked if we would contribute an...
by Tom DeWolf | Mar 8, 2011 | Appearances by Tom, History, Genealogy
On May 30, 1921, a black man named Dick Rowland entered an elevator operated by a white woman, Sarah Page, in the Drexel Building in Tulsa, Oklahoma. What happened next is known only to Rowland and Page. One version is that the elevator jerked, and they stumbled into...