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Located in Tulsa, Oklahoma, this residential neighborhood known as Greenwood provided an opportunity for Blacks to accumulate wealth and make advancements during a time of racial terror, in this History special, “Tulsa Burning: The 1921 Race Massacre.”
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Executive produced by NBA superstar and philanthropist Russell Westbrook, and directed by Peabody and Emmy-Award® winning director Stanley Nelson (“Freedom Riders”) and Peabody and duPont-Award winner Marco Williams (“Two Towns of Jasper”), the documentary commemorates the 100th anniversary of the horrific Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, one of the worst acts of racial violence in American history, and calls attention to the previously ignored but necessary repair of a town once devastated.
In the 1920s, the Greenwood District of Tulsa, Oklahoma, also known as Black Wall Street, was one of the most prosperous African American communities in the United States. Filled with booming businesses and thriving entrepreneurs, the district served as a mecca of Black ingenuity and promise, until the evening of May 31, 1921, which marked the start of the devastating Tulsa Race Massacre. More than thirty-five city blocks were burned to the ground and hundreds of Black city dwellers were killed. The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 is one of the most tragic moments in our nation’s history, yet this harrowing event is largely unknown to many Americans. It is an often-overlooked story that needs to be told.
“Tulsa Burning: The 1921 Race Massacre” takes an in-depth, sobering look at the tragic events of a century ago and focuses on a specific period, from the birth of Black Wall Street, to its catastrophic downfall over the course of two bloody days, and finally the fallout and reconstruction. The documentary also follows the city’s current-day grave excavation efforts at Oaklawn Cemetery where numerous unmarked coffins of victims who were killed and buried during the massacre have been recovered. It will also feature rare archival footage and imagery from the time, coupled with commentary and interviews from numerous historians, city leaders, and activists, including the Tulsa Historical Society & Museum, the John Hope Franklin Center for Reconciliation, the Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Commission and the Historic Vernon A.M.E. Church, among others.
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…and also founded the city of Oz.
Can you imagine our country if Greenwood had remained undamaged? Some of the black only small towns are said to be coming back due to retirement.
so we said no to decent, honest hard work, ??? so we MUST take responsibility for the current situation. Can’t have it both ways. what else we want from them and why we blaming them for what’s happening today?
They are not black or African-American they are American Indians the true Americans.☝🏾
This is the dream Malcolm X was talking about.
Tulsa Okla lies upon lands that were given to the Mvskoke (Muskogee) and Cherokee native tribes under treaty after they had been removed from their indigenous homelands in the Southeastern US. these new lands included much of what is now eastern Oklahoma. These lands were given to the Native peoples of the Creek (Mvskoke) and Cherokee tribes for time and all eternity in the early 1830s, by all rights there should have been no white nor black people here to be fighting with each other. Yes a few black folks were killed and yes a few whites folks were killed in the riot. Yet no black or white folks would have been harmed in any way in Tulsa in 1921 if they had not murdered and burnt out the thousands of Natives that were rightfully here to begin with.
When oil was found under the land that had been given to the Creeks and Cherokee the treaties though still binding were discarded and Oil men of both white and black races flooded into what is now Tulsa. Burning out and killing any Indians that would not move aside and bow to the stream of ‘progress.’
Before you shed tears or beat your chest for less than a few hundred black folks, think about the thousands of indians that were killed in the 50 some odd years prior to the 1921 riot as well as the thousands that were killed before and during the 1830s removal to Oklahoma.
If those black folks hadn’t violated the treaties right along with the white folks, they wouldn’t have been here to be involved in any race riot in 1921.
I don’t understand an eye for an eye when they set our shii on fire why didn’t they went and set their shiii on fire fvck that all because of more white lies
A slay with a twist of rebel
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TULSA was the Palestine back then
Critical race theory wants to erase the fact that this happened. They did the same thing to the Indians.
How come they there is no story on Minneapolis in 2020? 180 buildings looted and burned, including a police station, US Post Office, banks, pawn shops and another 1500 buildings damaged??
Greenwood has never been commonly called Black Wallstreet by any Tulsan! I lived at Pine & Peoria and have never heard anyone call it anything but Greenwood. Ronnie Wilson called his band Greenwood, Archer & Pine ( GAP Band) not Black Wallstreet. Not one massacre survivor uses the words” Black Wallstreet “ in their interviews on video. Every one of them said “Greenwood!”
the twenties was the end of the gilded age, where the democratics party (rise/infiltration of corruption in Washington) got to reform laws, then by the twenties crooks everywhere executed them
Our Supreme God Creator of all humanity inspired in His Word: “And He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the earth and has determined their preappointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings”. Acts 17:26. There is no room for racism!!!
“Race, race, race, race, race” That’s all you get from the oligarchy these days because they’re threatened by the lack of division where labor unions are concerned, because they’re afraid we’re going to join forces and take back our country and be able to protect each-others’ rights. So “gotta divide history by race. Gotta keep cranking out the feminism and racism propaganda, gotta get them to stop unionizing for collective bargaining-power. Gotta be able to keep violating peoples’ freedom of speech and workers’ rights, gotta keep them poor, divided and weak so we can keep exploiting them with wage-slavery and price-gouging.” 🙄Narcissists…
Sad and dark time in History against Blacks..Now they use institutions, Cults and the Supreme Court to Make America great again and Some Blacks are willing to vote against themselves and vote for racists.. Sad..never forget
Notice right now in the media.
They show all ignorant sides of black community but barely any of the good they do.
CNN in a 2022 documentary utilizing a panel of experts made the claim Black Wall Street is a Fable with zero historical facts to back up this claim. I wonder where this fable originated from CNN did not provide any sources 😮
Im Mexican heritage. But i loved history. And when i learned about this i was shocked that it wasnt being taught. And i was able to understand a bit the things we put certain groups through in this country
Why is everything black these days
Black History is Not Just the Shortest Month in our Calendar year, It should be taught Every Day! I Celebrate ALL that makes America and as I do That I would expect the same for Every American… America Must Celebrate and Recognize ALL Ethnicities, Religions and Political Leanings, But we Don’t!
No one cared when BLM burned down black businesses in 2020.
By separating black folk via division, it makes weakness. Unity makes and causes strength.
This is an attempt to decrease leverage for showing darker shades people couldn’t have enough confidence to escalate your mind skies is not the limit if We live in a Whole GalaXy 💬 don’t let that go over your heads (Casanova voice)
And they would say that that’s not RACist