{"id":1204,"date":"2010-11-08T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-08T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1204"},"modified":"2014-06-15T05:04:31","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T05:04:31","slug":"john-hope-franklin-reconciliation-park-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1204","title":{"rendered":"John Hope Franklin Reconciliation Park #3"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Reconciliation Tower by Ed Dwight<\/a> at the recently dedicated John Hope Franklin Reconciliation Park<\/a> commemorating the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot.<\/p>\n

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The tower depicts the story of Blacks in Oklahoma starting in Africa then to slavery in America and then their migration as slaves with their Native American owners on the Trail of Tears to Oklahoma and on through Emancipation, the Land Run of 1889, the Race Riot to the present day.<\/p>\n

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I’m told the Tower was originally designed to be located inside a building with a spiral staircase winding around it.<\/p>\n

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Please check out That’s My World<\/a> for other views from all over our world.<\/p>\n

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