Raymond Doswell is bringing a baseball background to ‘Black Wall Street’

Raymond Doswell is the vice president of curatorial services at the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City. He didn't think of himself when the committee asked him if he would be interested in running Greenwood Rising, a museum that serves as a brick-and-mortar remembrance of the May 31, 1921, mob attack that obliterated a cultural haven for Blacks in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Greenwood Rising is a museum dedicated to the history of Tulsa's Greenwood neighborhood. In 1921, a band of white people killed as many as 300 Black people and looted scores of Black businesses and torched homes. The museum's overarching theme is the indomitable human spirit. Doswell will replace interim director Phil Armstrong. He has extensive experience in Black history and historical research. He hopes the museum will be an economic magnet for more businesses. It will reflect the historical reflections on race and culture in America. Johnson is an authority on “Black Wall Street” and lectured around the United States about the massacre.