I work in the Brady District in downtown Tulsa, and am fascinated by its history. Steve Warren shared a short clip to Youtube prepared by Tulsa's Historical Society of a meeting of Confederates at what is today known as the Brady Theater, adding: "The national reunion of the United Confederate Veterans was held in Tulsa in September of 1918."
Among those veterans, I recognize several names of Tulsa's white pioneers. (Many Creek Nation cattlemen and their families had lived for decades in this area that was later "discovered" by white businessmen and lawyers) This reunion must have helped push the new city into prominence. Discovery of oil had already given Tulsa its first boost.
Tate Brady's Theater is just a few blocks west of the site of one of our nation's worst race riots. Oklahoma's "Black Wall Street" and hundreds of homes were demolished by fire brought by white rioters just three years after this 1918 reunion.
New to Tulsa's sordid history? My old friend Lee Roy Chapman best describes events leading up to our city's most shameful occasion: http://thislandpress.com/2012/04/18/tate-brady-battle-greenwood/