HANNIBAL B. JOHNSON TULSA graduate from Fort Smith, Arkansas’ Northside A High School, the University of Arkansas, and Harvard Law School, Hannibal B. Johnson is an author, attorney, and independent consultant specializing in diversity, equity, and inclusion. He has taught at The University of Tulsa College of Law, Oklahoma State University, and The University of Oklahoma. He serves on the federal 400 Years of African-American History Commission, a body charged with planning, developing, and implementing activities appropriate for the 400th anniversary of the 1619 arrival of Africans in the English colonies at Point Comfort, Virginia. Johnson chaired the Education Committee for the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Commission and served as local curator of its world-class history center, Greenwood Rising. His ten books, including Black Wall Street 100: An American City Grapples With Its Historical Racial Trauma, chronicle the African American experience in Oklahoma and its indelible impact on American history. Johnson’s play, Big Mama Speaks—A Tulsa Race Riot Survivor’s Story, was selected for the 2011 National Black Theatre Festival and has been staged in Caux, Switzerland, among countless other locations. With a strong passion for community service at the local, state, and national levels, Johnson’s service includes past president of Leadership Tulsa, the Metropolitan Tulsa Urban League, and the Northeast Oklahoma Black Lawyers Association. He has served on the Oklahoma Advisory Committee for the United States Commission on Civil Rights and the Programs Committee for the John Hope Franklin Center for Reconciliation. His honors include the National Philanthropy Day Award for Diversity and Inclusion from the Association of Fundraising Professionals, the Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher Diversity Award from the Oklahoma Bar Association, the Keeping the Dream Alive Award from the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemoration Society, and the Ralph Ellison Literary Award from Black Liberated Arts Center, Inc., among countless others. KENNETH J. LEVIT TULSA Executive Director of the George Kaiser Family Foundation, Levit presented Hannibal B. Johnson for induction. 363636