Ginnie Graham

Tulsa World Columnist

After J.B. Stradford lost everything in the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, he fled to one of his sons in Chicago to start over. He never fully recovered.

But he wrote a memoir. He didn’t want people to forget him or the power that was once Black Wall Street.

Through the years, bits of that memoir have been made public. Now, it is being published in its entirety by Texas-based Pairee Publications, curated by his great-granddaughters Leslee Stradford and Laurel Stradford, with a foreword from civil rights leader Jesse Jackson.

Although J.B. Stradford lived elsewhere for years before and after the massacre, his family choose Tulsa to hold the official book release — 11 a.m. Oct. 4 at the Greenwood Cultural Center, 322 N. Greenwood Ave.

“It’s an opportunity

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