Speaking & Presentations
Bring Greenwood's history to your audience.
Princetta Rudd Newman shares the history of Greenwood and North Tulsa through family stories, rare photographs, oral histories, and decades of firsthand knowledge. Each presentation is shaped around your audience and the stories most relevant to them. Virtual and in-person available.
Request a Speaking Engagement
The history, photographs, and stories Princetta shares on tour can be brought to your classroom, stage, or gathering.
There is no single Greenwood story. Princetta shapes each presentation around the people in the room and what matters to them.
Business
Greenwood entrepreneurs, businesswomen, real estate, or how families built opportunity under segregation.
Food & Hospitality
Restaurants, cooks, grocers, caterers, and the food businesses that helped make Greenwood a community.
Students
Schools, family life, civic leadership, 1921, rebuilding, or the changes brought by urban renewal.
Family & Community
Memory, preservation, faith, migration, or what Greenwood can teach us about building strong communities today.
“I knew a lot of these people. This isn't just history to me — it's my family.”
Topics Can Include
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Greenwood Through The Eras
The people, businesses, institutions, and community life that shaped Greenwood across generations.
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Business & Entrepreneurship
Black business owners, real estate, retail, service businesses, and the economic life of Greenwood.
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Black Women in Business
The women who owned, managed, built, and sustained businesses and community institutions.
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Food & Hospitality
Restaurants, cooks, grocers, hotels, entertainment, and the businesses that fed and welcomed the community.
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1921 & Rebuilding
The Tulsa Race Massacre, what was destroyed, and how Greenwood families and businesses rebuilt.
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Urban Renewal & North Tulsa
How highways, redevelopment, and public policy changed the physical and economic landscape.
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Family & Community Life
Schools, churches, social organizations, neighborhoods, civic life, and the everyday people behind the history.
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Oral History & Preservation
Why family photographs, records, memories, and community knowledge matter — and what it takes to preserve them.
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Lessons From Greenwood
What the history can teach us about seeing a need, building something useful, and carrying community work forward.
For Classrooms, Conferences, Families & Communities
Schools & Universities
Adapted for different ages, courses, and learning goals — history, civics, entrepreneurship, Black studies, public history, and preservation.
Conferences & Organizations
Bring Greenwood history into conferences, leadership gatherings, employee programs, museums, and cultural organizations.
Churches & Community Groups
Programs for congregations, civic organizations, nonprofits, neighborhood groups, and community gatherings.
Family Reunions
Bring Greenwood and North Tulsa history into a multigenerational gathering through photographs, stories, and family-centered learning.
What A Presentation Can Include
- Rare family photographs
- Oral histories
- Archival documents
- Historic film
- Family and community stories
- Firsthand memories
- Live questions and conversation
Tell us about your audience.
Share your date, location, audience, and what you hope people will take away from the experience. We'll follow up to talk through the topic, format, and availability. This is a request, not a confirmed booking.
- Available in person or live online — whichever fits your event.
- Topic, length, and format are shaped around your audience and event.
- Presentations can include photographs, oral histories, storytelling, and live Q&A.
- Travel, availability, and speaking fees are arranged directly with our team.