I’m going to be 50 years old in a month, I’ve studied history and have never heard of this before. WTF? We need to know way more regarding black history. I’m angry!
Me too, I'm angry, and my birthday is next month, and I'm gonna be 50 Year too, 7-20-70, happy birthday, learned about these a couple of years ago, I am glad they are doing research and are opening up about all this mistreatment and lynching, etc, well, be safe, happy birthday
I'm not even from the States and I know this.....almost 10 years ago I watch a little segment or something here in UA-cam and since that day I have been haunted about this horrific event that nobody knows...My sister in law live there in Tulsa and she doesn't know too much about this massacre also, somebody try to hide this from history...
I’m starting to believe that UA-cam is the best college ever I have learn far more important history information on UA-cam than the damn school I have ever attended in this life time of mine.
I’m from Tulsa born and raised in the 70’-90’s. I didn’t learn about the massacre until I was in my teens! No one talks about it and they definitely didn’t bring it up in schools.
That's because the idea is to make us believe there are TWO history stories, an American Black History and an American History. In truth there's just one history...if truth matters.
I’ll just ask why didn’t 60mins cover this story before Trump announced his recent political rally would be there during this tragic anniversary...before you say President Trump knew about this and he’s just promoting racial division remember Black people who grew up there didn’t even know this story. BTW when I grew up in Springfield Missouri I guess they also had several violent purges of Blacks in that city and to this day the percentage of Blacks living there has remained below the national average. From what I was told growing up is a lot of the remaining displaced Black population just picked up their belongings and moved up north to Kansas City and St. Louis. Violence is the true underbelly of American history and sadly no one group is immune to that.
@@gracealexander3160 ty for that link! It adds weight to be able to watch the first report first…adds weight to our willful ignorance as white people. Also adds weight to how long people have been fighting for justice for such a clear atrocity.
Funny you should say that! Jeremiah 13:26-27 English Standard Version 26 I myself will lift up your skirts over your face, and your shame will be seen. 27 I have seen your abominations, your adulteries and neighings, your lewd whorings, on the hills in the field. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! How long will it be before you are made clean?”
Woe!! So ur Grandmother must have lived it or knew of someone who was related to someone who was close to it or something?? Wow, this is unbelievable!! I wish this hadn't happened
My parents made a point of moving me to a "good" school district where they paid higher tax dollars. Still, I learned this on my own. When I asked about it in high school, I was told that it was neither true nor a part of our curriculum. I LOVE that this aired prior to the upcoming rally!
I'm from Tulsa, ok and it is about to be law that they teach it in schools nationwide! We have insisted over and over again. Thank God they have listened and will take the first step soon🙌
Not taught because Its shameful that White America instead of being jealous should've seen to their benefit the need to celebrate, protect & promoted the prosperity of Blacks one generation after slavery who were being classy affluent productive & law abiding members of society rather than dependant needing welfare recipients & thugs lacking education Had the former been promoted rather than the latter what progress & inspiration would we have seen in the following generations of independant young Blacks towards 100 years later
I'm 61 y/o & American history has always been my favorite subject to study. And even though somewhere I had briefly heard about Black Wall Street, I've never heard about this atrocity. We all think about the atrocities Hitler committed in Europe, but I ask you....are we, Americans, any better with this sinful stain in our history?
did you read the news article? it says he started to assault the woman in the elevator, than he ran away when she screamed for help. he admitted that he had stepped on her foot. im not saying anything but it was not all unprovoked, and then a group shields the offender. its not hard to see how this would cause fronts to escalate
And why does every person know about Hitlers killing? There have been multiple episodes of genocide most people have never heard of. Everyone has heard of Hitler killing the Jews. Who is in charge of the media? There is competition for what group was hurt the most. Whether it’s Cambodians murdered by the pol pot or Armenians killed by the Turks or what about Stalin killing his own people. It seems all people from all parts of the world are not only capable but have at some point done some pretty nasty killing. Asians, Europeans, Africans etc.
Are Americans better than Nazis? Umm... Yes. Yes we are. This was certainly tragic, unjust, and evil. No debate about that. The loss of even one life because of pure, ignorant hatred is one too many. But this isn't even remotely comparable to the attempted extermination of the Jews by the Nazis. They intentionally murdered more than 6 MILLION people! Over the course of YEARS. Methodical, intentional, government-funded and government-sanctioned... Government-LED! The Tulsa Race Massacre was, again, categorically evil. But yes... Yes, Americans, while not perfect, are better than Nazis.
The most humbling thought I have while watching this is that this was just one of many that happened across the country. A shameful past that we must teach if we are ever to heal.
They didn't write in the history books about using world War one planes to bomb the black wall streets neighbors jealous of black success business and have been aimed to this day allows all other immigrants to come to this country except black immigrants just like send all the Hati back so let me say this, this earth belong to no man and if you want to know who own this just read psalm 24 verse one then you will know who.
@@BjGross1 sounds like the workings of a guilty conscience. What does reparations have to do with white people of today being held responsible for a massacre that happened on American soil? Its not as if 100 years is that long. Its a single lifetime for some people. Also, The DOD budget proposal for this year is 740.5 billion. I'd rather see an insignificant chunk of that go to family members of the Greenwood community that received no justice at the time.
Very ugly stain… Springfield 1908 Tulsa 1920 Vicksburg 1874 Slocum 1910 Hamburg 1876* Colfax 1873 Opelousas 1868 Thibodaux 1887 East St. Louis 1917 Memphis 1866 Elaine 1919 Clinton 1875 Rosewood 1923 St. Bernard Parish 1868 New Orleans 1866 Ocoee 1920 Camila 1868 Eufaula 1874 Charleston 2015 Atlanta 1906 Wilmington 1898 Washington 1919 NYC 1863 Saw this list posted by another UA-cam commenter. *=Discovered while researching this list. 🤦🏾♀️
I was born in Oklahoma and have/had a lot of family there. Some would have been alive at the time of the tragedy in Tulsa. I never heard anyone in my family talk about what happened there. I only learned about it as an adult. People who would tell me to forget about it because it happened a long time ago are the same people who would tell me to remember 9/11.
That is because to talk about it is to acknowledge that there was a problem and still is a problem. Out of all the things Americans are willing to argue about racism is the least thing they want to address. We would rather carry about our business and talk like that incident was a million years ago when in reality the issues that caused it to happen in the first place are still very much alive today.
The reason they told you to forget about it is possibly because someone in your past family may have been involved with the massacre. Hundreds of white men were involved in this event, yet not a single person has been named or held accountable. There are a lot of skeletons in people's closets that no one wants out. Not just the Tulsa massacre, but the thousands of lynchings. So many witnesses and participants but very few brave people who are willing to name the perpetuators. Now is the time to name names. If you know of someone who did this please out them. It is never too late for justice.
@Love One another Nope he only changed the date to the 20th which is this coming Saturday. It's still being held in Tulsa, OK. It will be interesting what kind of crowd he attracts here given its history.
I was 20 years old when I moved to Tulsa, OK in 1988. My habit, then and now, was to join a library in any new city I moved to, so I joined their downtown library. I was searching for books by Cheikh Anta Diop when I saw a book displayed in the "Librarian Recommended" section on the massacre of Black Wallstreet. That book changed my life.
I am so appalled by what is being learned. I am a whitewoman who is 74 years of age and cannot believe this has happened in the United States of America. I want to apologize to all the black or African American people of the United States of. I just never would have believed this of my country and it breaks my heart. I cried all the way through the 60-minute program and as I'm watching it I am still. God forgive us all. This has happened since the beginning of time but that doesn't make it any less said that is still continuing to be done.
I appreciate your empathy but No Ma'am this is NOT the "same as throughout time". This was very cruel and unusual enslavement. The harshest enslavement ever heard of. Very Inhumane.
Thank you for thos warm message, being white doesn't make you guilty of this. And I'm sure a lot of white people are feeling the same. Thank you for your humanity
Nearing high school as a white teen in the 70s, something started to nag at me. It was impossible to "just accept it" any more. History classes were overwhelmingly devoted to notable whites, white heritage, white this, white that. Hundreds of years, millions upon millions of black humans and barely anything on them what the f*?? Bizarre and suspicious was an understatement. I was not a stupid kid, and the usual explanations did not add up. I scoured the libraries for anything but came up mysteriously empty-handed. This bothered and confused me to no end. Only later in adulthood would the disturbing truth behind this fully dawn on me.
@@bossteamentertainment6836 yea cause black areas whiter learning their own history or trying to pull their “boot straps up” and talk get nailed down just like u said… lol Them threats
I had never heard of this massacre until last week. Is appalling. The evilness people do is unbelievable! May those who were lost may they now rest in peace. Thank you 60 Minutes for this info and may those who live in northern Tulsa be strong and peaceful.
“The police join in with the white attacker’s” the more things change, the more they stay the same. Cops have ALWAYS shown their fear and bigotry. Such little people.
Attended college and live in Tulsa for 5 years. Didn’t hear about this event until at least a few years after I moved there. And even then, when I asked people who grew up there about it-they either didn’t know or didn’t want to talk about it.
Idiot. He is doing it exactly because it is symbolic to the black community. Trump hate is a symptom of psychiatric pathology - you are ideologically possessed.
Justified or not, everyone knows Trump is widely viewed as a racist. If he realizes this and still wants to hold one of his rallies there after the recent race riots then he is either deliberately instigating a fight or is just a complete idiot.
William Everyman You say that as if red states haven’t been equally complicit in wiping out native culture and removing evidence. Florida, Texas, the Deep South, are all guilty just like the West. It’s an American history issue, not a partisan one.
Many want this history erased….. Springfield 1908 Tulsa 1920 Vicksburg 1874 Slocum 1910 Hamburg 1876* Colfax 1873 Opelousas 1868 Thibodaux 1887 East St. Louis 1917 Memphis 1866 Elaine 1919 Clinton 1875 Rosewood 1923 St. Bernard Parish 1868 New Orleans 1866 Ocoee 1920 Camila 1868 Eufaula 1874 Charleston 2015 Atlanta 1906 Wilmington 1898 Washington 1919 NYC 1863 Saw this list posted by another UA-cam commenter. *=Discovered while researching this list. 🤦🏾♀️
Very ugly stain they intended to be hidden forever….they’re many more. Springfield 1908 Tulsa 1920 Vicksburg 1874 Slocum 1910 Hamburg 1876* Colfax 1873 Opelousas 1868 Thibodaux 1887 East St. Louis 1917 Memphis 1866 Elaine 1919 Clinton 1875 Rosewood 1923 St. Bernard Parish 1868 New Orleans 1866 Ocoee 1920 Camila 1868 Eufaula 1874 Charleston 2015 Atlanta 1906 Wilmington 1898 Washington 1919 NYC 1863 Saw this list posted by another UA-cam commenter. *=Discovered while researching this list. 🤦🏾♀️
the fact that this level success for African Americans was erased and never taught is disgusting.the images of African Americans we are shown are always negative depictions (from international perspective)..we are never shown the thriving and successful communities during these times..the pride and beauty of these people ,their incredible homes and businesses,the style icons and music ..these communities they created has been erased to perpetuate the myth of white superiority...so so sad to see the repulsive and vile ways in which these people were lost...
I am a 69 year old Black women. My mother just passed last year at 102 years old and was home with the family, no nursing home. My mother remembers her mother telling her about this massacre when she was old enough to understand racism. My mother was born in South Carolina the same year that this happened. My mother told me that this started over a white women's word over a Black man's word. An entire community was destroyed behind a lie. THEN Black Men started MARRYING the white man's prize. No more to be said.
It really bothers me that I had never heard of Juneteenth nor the Greenwood/Tulsa Race Massacre until this year. Literally, never even heard of them once until a couple days ago when I heard Trevor Noah say "Juneteenth" during his show. I had to look it up to even understand what he was saying. Some of the things that my Native American ancestors went through are widely known because they're written about in the history school books. Why didn't anyone teach about us about this?
Tulsa owes a HUGE apology for all African Americans still living in the town. I don't care if it was 100 years ago, I believe the Tulsa city governments still owes the Greenwood district compensation for all the lives lost and property destroyed. They should help rebuild a current version of Black Wall St. Racial Hatred IS Horrible.
@@nobodyspecial4702 If you think the black community in Tulsa isn’t still affected by the destruction of property and wealth accumulation of their ancestors, you’re an idiot. They just said Tulsa is extremely segregated and the black community still poor compared to the white community in Tulsa. Modern black Americans are very much still suffering from the effects of centuries of being denied the opportunities of given to white Americans simply for being white.
The racial terror had to have been EXTREME for the Black survivors, Black teachers, and Black relatives to have not constantly called attention to this atrocity all this time. So much so that there were people who grew up in that town and did not even know about it. These folks were literally flanked on every side by those who had killed them and destroyed their property with no remorse. They probably felt like they were surrounded by a bunch of little devils. How they survived this and the aftermath, I don't know.
If this horrible act of hatred really happened, then a museum with all the details must be built on site , somewhere. Bringing it to full light, so doing to prevent such things from happening again.
I'm quite shocked to hear how this was so unknown by so many people... (much like the towns that "disappeared"/"vanished" under water) especially people from my generation. Current generation -- it seems everything is getting suppressed. What my children learn at school is proof. I teach my children anything & everything I know with facts ..... encyclopedias are readily available these days. Ijs... I was "fortunate" to have learned about this during my early teens (early 90's). Granted I opted to learn more about it on my own... but had I not been taught about this event, I would've never known --- until now. Why hide?? Bring it on the "center stage". In order for people to move forward -- history must be known. Problems will remain unless they're properly addressed. Secrets will always be made aware... it might take some time -- but it can't remain a secret forever. It's better to face the truth & make the necessary changes within the society.
“I charge the White man with being the greatest murderer on earth. I charge the White man with being the greatest kidnapper on earth. There is no place in this world that that man can go and say he created peace and harmony. Everywhere he's gone he's created havoc. Everywhere he's gone he's created destruction. So I charge him.“ Malcolm X
You don't have to be anti-white to believe in equality. And it's so ironic, this kind of generalization of an entire race of people is supposedly what we are fighting AGAINST!
@@demetriusmiddleton1246 Stop repeating "oblivious white people" quotes that they spew when they feel guilty you know damn well we can as black people determine who is white and racist from those who are white and not racist. We've been generalized and stereotyped that's why they fear getting the same treatment even though when we say "white people" we are only talking about the racist one's and sincemost white people have not even been acknowledging racism they have been apart the problem up until this point. That's why white people sound like a generalization for all white people but it is has only referred to the "blind and the ruthless one's" We speak in a different language learn it.. all of you!
@@joshualamou and it's funny how A FEW black people pretend to have a monopoly on all of Black Thought and what it means to be black. How are you, a young light skin brother oh, it's going to tell me, and extremely dark proud black brother, what this black thought is that I need to learn. So because I don't agree with you, now I'm somehow less than black? And you talk about white people trying to split us up oh, look at you! You're not speaking objectively or truth. You're speaking bias. And you're talking about me talking about oblivious white people quotes? You're speaking oblivious black people quotes! You act like I'm not pro black because I don't agree with you. No, I am Pro black piping I just choose to deal in truth and education and knowledge as opposed to the common thoughts that teach learned helplessness that are COUNTERproductive! So maybe I'm trying to set up and trying to attack me personally oh, you need to learn critical thinking skills. And objectively evaluate what I'm saying. I'm not going to pretend to know everything or be right about everything. But the way to engage in this conversation is not to take you're hot take talking point quotes and attempt to base an entire argument off of it. I don't see anything objective or anything approaching the level of CRITICAL THINKING thinking in anything you wrote. All you did was build a straw man and then attack that strong man. If there's anybody that needs to learn something here, it's you!
Thank you for this video. I had no clue about this and I'm in shock you don't teach this in school in America. Every nation has his flaws in the past but it's how you handle it for the future generations and what you learn from it and do with this knowledge.
Racism is not the problem becouse if you are racist you can simply move somewhere you belong and avoid interacting with people skin. The problem is Genocidal feelings that is unique to the white man. I can not explain it but I have seen it.
After studying and living here in Oklahoma for years and especially near Greenwood; I realize the resources for such great damage did not come from private individuals and this truth hit me really hard a few years' back. Individuals do not have access to airports with airplanes that dropped what was dropped and devastated not just the neighborhood; but the business districts including over one hundred (100) businesses, inclusive of law offices, real-estate offices, a post office, a hotel, etc. This is why. Jealousy is terrible. There were also many other jurisdictions around America around the same time (1921) that had the same demographics that were growing economically that this "happened to" so the backdrop to the reasoning of the destruction could not be random.
What happened in Tulsa is the true nature of america's spirit. Its an unhindered look at america's soul. america supported the massacre which is why no one was made to answer for the atrocities.
I did not hear of this until college, and now we can no longer teach this in many schools as it might make someone like me, a white male, uncomfortable. Every single American should be required to know this full story before they are allowed to graduate high school. We are indeed a failed nation.
They don't want you to know about what they did to innocent black people but in the history books they make themselves look like heroes when they are nothing but brutal murderers.
You start with the insurance companies who refused to play on those claims there is always a paper trail somewhere you can start with the banks find out who bought or who were paying on home and that area like I said there's always a paper trip somewhere
Embarrassing. (As the world looks on at our history) Sick. (To think there were humans out there willing to do this to other humans) Humiliating. (As a nation to be exposed in truth) Wrong. (All of it , Wrong) My brain is so full of thoughts these are the ones that bubble over. And now these are the people we live among.
Thank you for posting this video, I appreciate it. And we are doomed to repeat it if we don't learn from it. Be safe, healthy and happy. God bless you 🙏 be well.
Looking at the area on Google Maps is really eerie. Stairs leading up to nothing but trees, crumbling sidewalks, completely empty blocks. The rest of the area has caught up in some way but that particular stretch hasn't, you can even notice from the satellite images.
I believe that God cannot allow such a place to prosper ever again where the blood of the inhabitants cries from their graves. 100+ years later and that city never fully recovered. Tulsa is generationally cursed.
Thank you for FINALLY bringing truth to the masses about these horrible acts of hate..... why weren't we taught this in school?? We learn EVERYTHING else about this wicked Nation....tell it all AMERICA!!!! You don't have the right to pick and choose!!!!
My great grandfather owned a tailoring business in Greenwood that burned down in the Massacre. He took his wife and my grandfather who was 2 yrs old at the time and his other 2 kids and fled to Boley, OK, a small rural town of mostly black people. My dad was born there but moved back to Tulsa in the 70’s where I was born. The massacre devastated my family! My grandfather never recouped his losses from the fire and my dad grew up very poor. The city of Tulsa owes the descendants of the massacre reparations because it destroyed generational wealth, not to mention the mental and emotional trauma it caused!!
A whole black town burned down with 1000's homeless, over 300 killed because of a lie that was told in a newspaper and not 1 single person was arrested or charged and it's been almost 100 years and still no reparations. smh Not only that, nobody from the generations after knew a single thing about this because they didn't teach this in any public school, so people are just finding out about this, even people from Tulsa didn't know about this. This is just as bad as what happened to Emmitt Till(who was only 16 yrs. old) in 1955 when he was brutally beaten to death and his face was disfigured while thrown in into the tallahatchie river all because he whistled at a white women(and btw, she has recanted the lies she told since than when she said Emmitt physically and verbally assaulted her and she's still alive right now and still hasn't been been charged for what she did)and the 2 whiteboy's who did it admitted to what they did in a magazine, got paid for it and never faced any criminal charges.
10:42 they dropped the ball right there tho. if you can get a entire prehistoric fossil out of the ground, a 100 years should be no problem to excavate they just don’t want to. They’d rather obfuscate. Are you paying attention?
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 never approved of racism and I agree that somebody has to say something about it. Enough is enough. But unfortunately not only black people were effected by this ignorance in human race. But we also have to remember the inhuman actions against American Natives, somebody has to remember them also.
African Americans should rebuild the city in the same place and build a museum that tells in detail about the horrors the hard-working people from Greenwood have endured. I'm sick to my stomach.
Holy crap this was awful 😢 I've never heard about this! I do not and will never understand such atrocities some people commit against their fellow men and women.
I grow up in tulsa 1973 to 1996, graduated from Edison, and i never know about it intal few years after i moved way and saw it on the History channel, i was shocked and couldn't believe that we didn't learn about it in high school
Indeed. Springfield 1908 Tulsa 1920 Vicksburg 1874 Slocum 1910 Hamburg 1876* Colfax 1873 Opelousas 1868 Thibodaux 1887 East St. Louis 1917 Memphis 1866 Elaine 1919 Clinton 1875 Rosewood 1923 St. Bernard Parish 1868 New Orleans 1866 Ocoee 1920 Camila 1868 Eufaula 1874 Charleston 2015 Atlanta 1906 Wilmington 1898 Washington 1919 NYC 1863 Saw this list posted by another UA-cam commenter. *=Discovered while researching this list. 🤦🏾♀️
It’s a double tragedy. It’s a tragedy that it happened and also a tragedy it’s been hidden from history. Black people that live in Tulsa don’t even know it happened. Crazy!!!
I read about this in the New York Times today ? Shocking to think that a Pogrom like this happened ! I hope compensation to families of the survivors can be made.
I heard about this in my history classes growing up. The post WWI era was a turbulent time in the US. There were race and labor rights in many locations. Many of the people saying they didn't hear about this in school probably just don't remember it being covered in their classes. Kids have a tendency to not pay attention in class. Or, maybe I had very good history teachers in high school. The riots of the time are kinda what the era is known for.
Came across this story while searching for the story of rosewood,Florida 1923 from somewhere sinister. The story should be told and often and never forgotten.
Im not a big person for reparations but enough is enough. If relatives of mass graves are found, they should all be paid from the city. Set a 300 million dollar fund and allocate it accordingly. If we can afford to bail out billionaires from losing half their stock portfolio, we can pay reparations for this kind of brutality.
I remember learning about this during the summer before I enter 8th grade during a field trip with OSU (Oklahoma state university) I had one teacher mention it but briefly.
For those who don't know about this it's called BLACK wallstreet "The Gap band" song you dropped a bomb on me is about this the government was in on it not just klansman even tho they the same
Indeed✊🏾 Springfield 1908 Tulsa 1920 Vicksburg 1874 Slocum 1910 Hamburg 1876* Colfax 1873 Opelousas 1868 Thibodaux 1887 East St. Louis 1917 Memphis 1866 Elaine 1919 Clinton 1875 Rosewood 1923 St. Bernard Parish 1868 New Orleans 1866 Ocoee 1920 Camila 1868 Eufaula 1874 Charleston 2015 Atlanta 1906 Wilmington 1898 Washington 1919 NYC 1863 Saw this list posted by another UA-cam commenter. *=Discovered while researching this list. 🤦🏾♀️
Once again these people are lucky that black people only want equality and not revenge...👊🏾✊🏾..Also is it me but when I was growing up black history month was more of a big deal than it seems like it is these days, I have never heard of Black Wallstreet until last week..😔
I’m going to be 50 years old in a month, I’ve studied history and have never heard of this before. WTF? We need to know way more regarding black history. I’m angry!
Me too, I'm angry, and my birthday is next month, and I'm gonna be 50 Year too, 7-20-70, happy birthday, learned about these a couple of years ago, I am glad they are doing research and are opening up about all this mistreatment and lynching, etc, well, be safe, happy birthday
@RudeBoyRebel frm MISSISSIPPI who is "they"?
Just one of many racial massacre that occurred in this country. That you won't see in an America history book.
I'm not even from the States and I know this.....almost 10 years ago I watch a little segment or something here in UA-cam and since that day I have been haunted about this horrific event that nobody knows...My sister in law live there in Tulsa and she doesn't know too much about this massacre also, somebody try to hide this from history...
Hi There American history is very Eurocentric
I’m starting to believe that UA-cam is the best college ever I have learn far more important history information on UA-cam than the damn school I have ever attended in this life time of mine.
School is not for education. It’s for INDOCTRINATION.
It can be. For sure.
@@ro3snowman yeah, it is.
UA-cam #1
I’m from Tulsa born and raised in the 70’-90’s. I didn’t learn about the massacre until I was in my teens! No one talks about it and they definitely didn’t bring it up in schools.
I’ve learned nothing about American black history. Makes me feel stupid and angry
This is exactly how I felt watching this segment.
That's because the idea is to make us believe there are TWO history stories, an American Black History and an American History. In truth there's just one history...if truth matters.
same here, tragic isn't it...
The powers that be don't want people to know about this.
I live in Tulsa and this was tighten my Oklahoma history class
Thank you 60 minutes for sharing this horrific story. I would have never have heard about this atrocity until now.
I’ll just ask why didn’t 60mins cover this story before Trump announced his recent political rally would be there during this tragic anniversary...before you say President Trump knew about this and he’s just promoting racial division remember Black people who grew up there didn’t even know this story. BTW when I grew up in Springfield Missouri I guess they also had several violent purges of Blacks in that city and to this day the percentage of Blacks living there has remained below the national average. From what I was told growing up is a lot of the remaining displaced Black population just picked up their belongings and moved up north to Kansas City and St. Louis. Violence is the true underbelly of American history and sadly no one group is immune to that.
I also would've never known about this story if 60 minutes didn't report it.
@@robertpowers1045 60 Minutes covered this in 1999 (ua-cam.com/video/EgUrsmzFAd4/v-deo.html).
@@gracealexander3160 ty for that link! It adds weight to be able to watch the first report first…adds weight to our willful ignorance as white people. Also adds weight to how long people have been fighting for justice for such a clear atrocity.
@@robertpowers1045 I’m sorry I gotta tell you this but no was even thinking about Trump here
America, your skirt is being lifted. Once the world finds out the WHOLE truth, you're in big trouble.
Well said👍👍👍
True
The world already knows. The US has caused so much pain to MANY countries in the world
I agree, but we’re in so deep on many many fronts I have no idea how we’ll get back to anything we could consider “normal”
Funny you should say that!
Jeremiah 13:26-27
English Standard Version
26 I myself will lift up your skirts over your face,
and your shame will be seen.
27 I have seen your abominations,
your adulteries and neighings, your lewd whorings,
on the hills in the field.
Woe to you, O Jerusalem!
How long will it be before you are made clean?”
I'm a 4th generation Tulsan and I had never heard of the massacre until my grandmother told me about it in the 70s. Shameful.
Woe!! So ur Grandmother must have lived it or knew of someone who was related to someone who was close to it or something?? Wow, this is unbelievable!! I wish this hadn't happened
Same! Born and raised. I didn’t know about it until I was in my teens! No one talks about it.
My parents made a point of moving me to a "good" school district where they paid higher tax dollars. Still, I learned this on my own. When I asked about it in high school, I was told that it was neither true nor a part of our curriculum. I LOVE that this aired prior to the upcoming rally!
Same here🖐🏾 We can never trust the Govt to teach u real history, we gotta research ourself🇱🇷
I'm from Tulsa, ok and it is about to be law that they teach it in schools nationwide! We have insisted over and over again. Thank God they have listened and will take the first step soon🙌
And you can't see the agenda behind it???
Not taught because Its shameful that White America instead of being jealous should've seen to their benefit the need to celebrate, protect & promoted the prosperity of Blacks one generation after slavery who were being classy affluent productive & law abiding members of society rather than dependant needing welfare recipients & thugs lacking education
Had the former been promoted rather than the latter what progress & inspiration would we have seen in the following generations of independant young Blacks towards 100 years later
What city & what school told you that?
I believe you because it was never taught at my high school Hamilton High in
Los Angeles....
I'm 61 y/o & American history has always been my favorite subject to study.
And even though somewhere I had briefly heard about Black Wall Street, I've never heard about this atrocity.
We all think about the atrocities Hitler committed in Europe, but I ask you....are we, Americans, any better with this sinful stain in our history?
Omg if you did any study whatsoever Jim Crow era you’d have heard this. Ever heard of the Occoee massacre?
did you read the news article? it says he started to assault the woman in the elevator, than he ran away when she screamed for help. he admitted that he had stepped on her foot. im not saying anything but it was not all unprovoked, and then a group shields the offender. its not hard to see how this would cause fronts to escalate
And why does every person know about Hitlers killing? There have been multiple episodes of genocide most people have never heard of.
Everyone has heard of Hitler killing the Jews.
Who is in charge of the media?
There is competition for what group was hurt the most. Whether it’s Cambodians murdered by the pol pot or Armenians killed by the Turks or what about Stalin killing his own people.
It seems all people from all parts of the world are not only capable but have at some point done some pretty nasty killing. Asians, Europeans, Africans etc.
Are Americans better than Nazis? Umm... Yes. Yes we are.
This was certainly tragic, unjust, and evil. No debate about that. The loss of even one life because of pure, ignorant hatred is one too many.
But this isn't even remotely comparable to the attempted extermination of the Jews by the Nazis. They intentionally murdered more than 6 MILLION people! Over the course of YEARS. Methodical, intentional, government-funded and government-sanctioned... Government-LED!
The Tulsa Race Massacre was, again, categorically evil. But yes... Yes, Americans, while not perfect, are better than Nazis.
The most humbling thought I have while watching this is that this was just one of many that happened across the country. A shameful past that we must teach if we are ever to heal.
Spike Lee should make a film about this incident.
Russell Westbrook is making a documentary in this.
@@kingsean1500 I'd like to see that when it's done :)
But with a Get Out spin
@@mrv9187 doesn't need the spin. It's already a horrifying story.
It was a big part of the Watchmen tv show that was on HBO
Thank you 60 MInutes for making this available here. This needs to be in the history books.
Fo sho
They didn't write in the history books about using world War one planes to bomb the black wall streets neighbors jealous of black success business and have been aimed to this day allows all other immigrants to come to this country except black immigrants just like send all the Hati back so let me say this, this earth belong to no man and if you want to know who own this just read psalm 24 verse one then you will know who.
If this massacre doesn’t deserve financial reparations nothing does. If relatives can be found, the State of Oklahoma needs to pay up.
Karen Taylor Absolutely!
They tried but they were denied
@@tashnaw 😔
Absolutely not. Tax payer money should not be used for reparations. White people today are not responsible for atrocities 100 years ago.
@@BjGross1 sounds like the workings of a guilty conscience. What does reparations have to do with white people of today being held responsible for a massacre that happened on American soil? Its not as if 100 years is that long. Its a single lifetime for some people. Also, The DOD budget proposal for this year is 740.5 billion. I'd rather see an insignificant chunk of that go to family members of the Greenwood community that received no justice at the time.
I'm certain there are many more stories like this throughout America decades before.
There are many other BURNINGS AND lynchings and MASSACRES, just Google it..hatred for blacks and immigrants in America is an ugly history
Very ugly stain…
Springfield 1908
Tulsa 1920
Vicksburg 1874
Slocum 1910
Hamburg 1876*
Colfax 1873
Opelousas 1868
Thibodaux 1887
East St. Louis 1917
Memphis 1866
Elaine 1919
Clinton 1875
Rosewood 1923
St. Bernard Parish 1868
New Orleans 1866
Ocoee 1920
Camila 1868
Eufaula 1874
Charleston 2015
Atlanta 1906
Wilmington 1898
Washington 1919
NYC 1863
Saw this list posted by another UA-cam commenter.
*=Discovered while researching this list. 🤦🏾♀️
Thank you for educating me. I knew nothing about Greenwood. This is an EXTREMELY sad and horrifying story. I cried.
There are dozens of greenwoods. Keep searching
Rosewood.
I have said it before, it continues to surprise me that the human race has gone on as long as it has.
I was born in Oklahoma and have/had a lot of family there. Some would have been alive at the time of the tragedy in Tulsa. I never heard anyone in my family talk about what happened there. I only learned about it as an adult. People who would tell me to forget about it because it happened a long time ago are the same people who would tell me to remember 9/11.
That is because to talk about it is to acknowledge that there was a problem and still is a problem. Out of all the things Americans are willing to argue about racism is the least thing they want to address. We would rather carry about our business and talk like that incident was a million years ago when in reality the issues that caused it to happen in the first place are still very much alive today.
A big cover up followed
The reason they told you to forget about it is possibly because someone in your past family may have been involved with the massacre. Hundreds of white men were involved in this event, yet not a single person has been named or held accountable. There are a lot of skeletons in people's closets that no one wants out. Not just the Tulsa massacre, but the thousands of lynchings. So many witnesses and participants but very few brave people who are willing to name the perpetuators. Now is the time to name names. If you know of someone who did this please out them. It is never too late for justice.
Imagine going to war to fight for your country's freedom only to return home and be treated this way.
Yup
And this is where Trump wants to have his next rally.
Let that sink in.
@Love One another Nope he only changed the date to the 20th which is this coming Saturday. It's still being held in Tulsa, OK. It will be interesting what kind of crowd he attracts here given its history.
It’s the most tone deaf thing he’s done since he praised Native American “wind talkers” at the white house in front of the portrait of Andrew Jackson.
What if he makes a decent speech, since he's not really a racist. Lol
Who cares where Trump has his rally. It really doesn't matter.
@@Liz-ic6jb It does. To his cult racist followers. Sadly
I was 20 years old when I moved to Tulsa, OK in 1988. My habit, then and now, was to join a library in any new city I moved to, so I joined their downtown library. I was searching for books by Cheikh Anta Diop when I saw a book displayed in the "Librarian Recommended" section on the massacre of Black Wallstreet. That book changed my life.
This story really needs to be shown and put in all history books .
The right trying to ban books is part of trying to erase this history.
I am so appalled by what is being learned. I am a whitewoman who is 74 years of age and cannot believe this has happened in the United States of America. I want to apologize to all the black or African American people of the United States of. I just never would have believed this of my country and it breaks my heart. I cried all the way through the 60-minute program and as I'm watching it I am still.
God forgive us all. This has happened since the beginning of time but that doesn't make it any less said that is still continuing to be done.
Yeah right
Apologize for what? You didn't do anything. Worry about your friends and family. That's all you have to do
I appreciate your empathy but No Ma'am this is NOT the "same as throughout time". This was very cruel and unusual enslavement. The harshest enslavement ever heard of. Very Inhumane.
Thank you for thos warm message, being white doesn't make you guilty of this. And I'm sure a lot of white people are feeling the same. Thank you for your humanity
Now you understand black people are asking for fair policing
Nearing high school as a white teen in the 70s, something started to nag at me. It was impossible to "just accept it" any more.
History classes were overwhelmingly devoted to notable whites, white heritage, white this, white that. Hundreds of years, millions upon millions of black humans and barely anything on them what the f*?? Bizarre and suspicious was an understatement.
I was not a stupid kid, and the usual explanations did not add up. I scoured the libraries for anything but came up mysteriously empty-handed. This bothered and confused me to no end.
Only later in adulthood would the disturbing truth behind this fully dawn on me.
No its hard to accept it because you're the "devil"
Great you found it.keep on researching Steve X :)
@@SVGIN Looks like you're the devil with this prejudice attitude. And YOU of all people should know better. Knock it off.
@@bossteamentertainment6836 yea cause black areas whiter learning their own history or trying to pull their “boot straps up” and talk get nailed down just like u said… lol
Them threats
Thank you. School was hard for me for this reason. Every day i went to school i saw my people in chains, rags and hanging from trees.
Thank you for producing this. It's important to know our real history.
I had never heard of this massacre until last week. Is appalling. The evilness people do is unbelievable! May those who were lost may they now rest in peace.
Thank you 60 Minutes for this info and may those who live in northern Tulsa be strong and peaceful.
“The police join in with the white attacker’s” the more things change, the more they stay the same. Cops have ALWAYS shown their fear and bigotry. Such little people.
Agreed
Plus ça change, plus ça reste le meme.
Attended college and live in Tulsa for 5 years. Didn’t hear about this event until at least a few years after I moved there. And even then, when I asked people who grew up there about it-they either didn’t know or didn’t want to talk about it.
Because they are sitting on the properties of the people they killed
Remember, this is where Trump is holding his Rally on Saturday. I'm sure some of Trump's "very fine" far-right supporters will be there.
Not anymore he said his “good”black friends asked him to reconsider.
@@kittsmohamud This is correct. He moved it to Saturday.
Idiot. He is doing it exactly because it is symbolic to the black community. Trump hate is a symptom of psychiatric pathology - you are ideologically possessed.
Justified or not, everyone knows Trump is widely viewed as a racist. If he realizes this and still wants to hold one of his rallies there after the recent race riots then he is either deliberately instigating a fight or is just a complete idiot.
@@kittsmohamud no unfortunately it is still being held in Tulsa he just moved the date from the 14th to the 20th.
What a story. I didn’t know anything about it until a couple of years ago. And the tech for finding the mass graves has me stunned.
You don't hear about massacres against Native Americans either..
I heard plenty when I was in school. But there's much more tbh
Luke Saucewalker I only heard about a Wounded Knee. I didn’t know my home state of CA led a scalp trade of men, women and children.
William Everyman You say that as if red states haven’t been equally complicit in wiping out native culture and removing evidence. Florida, Texas, the Deep South, are all guilty just like the West. It’s an American history issue, not a partisan one.
Many want this history erased…..
Springfield 1908
Tulsa 1920
Vicksburg 1874
Slocum 1910
Hamburg 1876*
Colfax 1873
Opelousas 1868
Thibodaux 1887
East St. Louis 1917
Memphis 1866
Elaine 1919
Clinton 1875
Rosewood 1923
St. Bernard Parish 1868
New Orleans 1866
Ocoee 1920
Camila 1868
Eufaula 1874
Charleston 2015
Atlanta 1906
Wilmington 1898
Washington 1919
NYC 1863
Saw this list posted by another UA-cam commenter.
*=Discovered while researching this list. 🤦🏾♀️
The picture of the little boy carrying a dead sibling...oh my god.. I can't stand this level of hatred that is still going on today!
demonic evil
Was heartbreaking to see that picture
The history of this country is missing.
Sadly yes and swept under the rug and floor ignorantly....💔
Very ugly stain they intended to be hidden forever….they’re many more.
Springfield 1908
Tulsa 1920
Vicksburg 1874
Slocum 1910
Hamburg 1876*
Colfax 1873
Opelousas 1868
Thibodaux 1887
East St. Louis 1917
Memphis 1866
Elaine 1919
Clinton 1875
Rosewood 1923
St. Bernard Parish 1868
New Orleans 1866
Ocoee 1920
Camila 1868
Eufaula 1874
Charleston 2015
Atlanta 1906
Wilmington 1898
Washington 1919
NYC 1863
Saw this list posted by another UA-cam commenter.
*=Discovered while researching this list. 🤦🏾♀️
the fact that this level success for African Americans was erased and never taught is disgusting.the images of African Americans we are shown are always negative depictions (from international perspective)..we are never shown the thriving and successful communities during these times..the pride and beauty of these people ,their incredible homes and businesses,the style icons and music ..these communities they created has been erased to perpetuate the myth of white superiority...so so sad to see the repulsive and vile ways in which these people were lost...
its not hidden by anything but the tides of time. its written down and free to find for those who searches for it
I am a 69 year old Black women. My mother just passed last year at 102 years old and was home with the family, no nursing home. My mother remembers her mother telling her about this massacre when she was old enough to understand racism. My mother was born in South Carolina the same year that this happened. My mother told me that this started over a white women's word over a Black man's word. An entire community was destroyed behind a lie. THEN Black Men started MARRYING the white man's prize. No more to be said.
🙏🏿
Stay strapped people. We can never let this happen again.
😢😮Wow, this is horrible beyond comprehension
A white mob? White cowards
It really bothers me that I had never heard of Juneteenth nor the Greenwood/Tulsa Race Massacre until this year. Literally, never even heard of them once until a couple days ago when I heard Trevor Noah say "Juneteenth" during his show. I had to look it up to even understand what he was saying. Some of the things that my Native American ancestors went through are widely known because they're written about in the history school books. Why didn't anyone teach about us about this?
The Republicans are actively trying to stop education on these issues. Vote them out
Tulsa owes a HUGE apology for all African Americans still living in the town. I don't care if it was 100 years ago, I believe the Tulsa city governments still owes the Greenwood district compensation for all the lives lost and property destroyed. They should help rebuild a current version of Black Wall St. Racial Hatred IS Horrible.
No apology is necessary. REPARATIONS is all that is acceptable.
@@greatsol2444 Sure, give money for something you had no connection to. That makes sense.
@@nobodyspecial4702 If you think the black community in Tulsa isn’t still affected by the destruction of property and wealth accumulation of their ancestors, you’re an idiot. They just said Tulsa is extremely segregated and the black community still poor compared to the white community in Tulsa. Modern black Americans are very much still suffering from the effects of centuries of being denied the opportunities of given to white Americans simply for being white.
@@nobodyspecial4702 Who are you referring to that should give?
@@greatsol2444 The descendants and few of the individuals that lived through it.
The racial terror had to have been EXTREME for the Black survivors, Black teachers, and Black relatives to have not constantly called attention to this atrocity all this time. So much so that there were people who grew up in that town and did not even know about it. These folks were literally flanked on every side by those who had killed them and destroyed their property with no remorse. They probably felt like they were surrounded by a bunch of little devils. How they survived this and the aftermath, I don't know.
If this horrible act of hatred really happened, then a museum with all the details must be built on site , somewhere. Bringing it to full light, so doing to prevent such things from happening again.
It definitely happened. No “ifs”about it. And it happened to other black communities too.
It’s still happening in the form of modern day slavery.Try the prison system,the systemic racism.What do you mean?
The Greenwood Cultural Center
@@A_Little_Shelf_Absorbed ✊
A museum does nothing to help families destroyed by this act of terrorism. Descendants need to be compensated.
my new expression for most things happening today is "unbelievable" because i am at a loss for words and overwhelmed with grief
I’m in my 20s and just learning about this. They never spoke of this massacre in school.
I'm quite shocked to hear how this was so unknown by so many people... (much like the towns that "disappeared"/"vanished" under water) especially people from my generation. Current generation -- it seems everything is getting suppressed. What my children learn at school is proof. I teach my children anything & everything I know with facts ..... encyclopedias are readily available these days. Ijs...
I was "fortunate" to have learned about this during my early teens (early 90's).
Granted I opted to learn more about it on my own... but had I not been taught about this event, I would've never known --- until now.
Why hide?? Bring it on the "center stage". In order for people to move forward -- history must be known. Problems will remain unless they're properly addressed.
Secrets will always be made aware... it might take some time -- but it can't remain a secret forever.
It's better to face the truth & make the necessary changes within the society.
“I charge the White man with being the greatest murderer on earth. I charge the White man with being the greatest kidnapper on earth. There is no place in this world that that man can go and say he created peace and harmony. Everywhere he's gone he's created havoc. Everywhere he's gone he's created destruction. So I charge him.“ Malcolm X
You don't have to be anti-white to believe in equality. And it's so ironic, this kind of generalization of an entire race of people is supposedly what we are fighting AGAINST!
@@demetriusmiddleton1246 I am not. it reminded me Malcom's speech.
@@demetriusmiddleton1246 Stop repeating "oblivious white people" quotes that they spew when they feel guilty you know damn well we can as black people determine who is white and racist from those who are white and not racist. We've been generalized and stereotyped that's why they fear getting the same treatment even though when we say "white people" we are only talking about the racist one's and sincemost white people have not even been acknowledging racism they have been apart the problem up until this point. That's why white people sound like a generalization for all white people but it is has only referred to the "blind and the ruthless one's" We speak in a different language learn it.. all of you!
@@joshualamou and it's funny how A FEW black people pretend to have a monopoly on all of Black Thought and what it means to be black. How are you, a young light skin brother oh, it's going to tell me, and extremely dark proud black brother, what this black thought is that I need to learn. So because I don't agree with you, now I'm somehow less than black? And you talk about white people trying to split us up oh, look at you! You're not speaking objectively or truth. You're speaking bias.
And you're talking about me talking about oblivious white people quotes? You're speaking oblivious black people quotes! You act like I'm not pro black because I don't agree with you. No, I am Pro black piping I just choose to deal in truth and education and knowledge as opposed to the common thoughts that teach learned helplessness that are COUNTERproductive!
So maybe I'm trying to set up and trying to attack me personally oh, you need to learn critical thinking skills. And objectively evaluate what I'm saying. I'm not going to pretend to know everything or be right about everything. But the way to engage in this conversation is not to take you're hot take talking point quotes and attempt to base an entire argument off of it. I don't see anything objective or anything approaching the level of CRITICAL THINKING thinking in anything you wrote. All you did was build a straw man and then attack that strong man.
If there's anybody that needs to learn something here, it's you!
@@joshualamou ...all of you
Who the F "disliked" this? Unless they did it to show disapproval of what happened, WTF is wrong with those people?
Thank you for this video. I had no clue about this and I'm in shock you don't teach this in school in America. Every nation has his flaws in the past but it's how you handle it for the future generations and what you learn from it and do with this knowledge.
I grew up in Tulsa and never heard about it until adulthood.
Racism has strong roots in white America.
Racism is not the problem becouse if you are racist you can simply move somewhere you belong and avoid interacting with people skin. The problem is Genocidal feelings that is unique to the white man. I can not explain it but I have seen it.
Read “The Iceman Inheritance” Michael Anderson Bradley for your answer
@@barefootprofessor3455 When you say whites are genocidal, that's you being a racist.
and now black too thanks to blm.
This is why we MUST write our own stories.
After studying and living here in Oklahoma for years and especially near Greenwood; I realize the resources for such great damage did not come from private individuals and this truth hit me really hard a few years' back. Individuals do not have access to airports with airplanes that dropped what was dropped and devastated not just the neighborhood; but the business districts including over one hundred (100) businesses, inclusive of law offices, real-estate offices, a post office, a hotel, etc. This is why. Jealousy is terrible. There were also many other jurisdictions around America around the same time (1921) that had the same demographics that were growing economically that this "happened to" so the backdrop to the reasoning of the destruction could not be random.
Fox News would have reported that the boy in the elevator had weed in his system. Different eras same sh*t.
Chris Cabcabin ...Truth is painful, right Brothaman?????
what in the literal f are you talking about?
What happened in Tulsa is the true nature of america's spirit. Its an unhindered look at america's soul. america supported the massacre which is why no one was made to answer for the atrocities.
Praying for justice in Tulsa🙏🙏
Prayers from NZ❣
Man, this is tragic~
I grew up in Wichita and was never taught this horrific episode in American History class.
Omg, I can't believe that I'm just now learning about this horrible event.
I did not hear of this until college, and now we can no longer teach this in many schools as it might make someone like me, a white male, uncomfortable. Every single American should be required to know this full story before they are allowed to graduate high school.
We are indeed a failed nation.
Good for you guys 60 minutes. This is what being a good person is about. I’m amazed that know one knows about this.
I found out about this in prison when I was 20 years old
I’m 41 now
These people only tell you what they want you to know.
always amazed when I discover history I never heard about.
They don't want you to know about what they did to innocent black people but in the history books they make themselves look like heroes when they are nothing but brutal murderers.
You start with the insurance companies who refused to play on those claims there is always a paper trail somewhere you can start with the banks find out who bought or who were paying on home and that area like I said there's always a paper trip somewhere
AMEN AMEN SO TRUE I HATE THE WORLD TODAY 😠😡🤬
Why isn’t anyone talking about reparations and justice ?
Embarrassing.
(As the world looks on at our history)
Sick.
(To think there were humans out there willing to do this to other humans)
Humiliating.
(As a nation to be exposed in truth)
Wrong.
(All of it , Wrong)
My brain is so full of thoughts these are the ones that bubble over.
And now these are the people we live among.
Thank you for posting this video, I appreciate it. And we
are doomed to repeat it if we
don't learn from it.
Be safe, healthy and happy.
God bless you 🙏 be well.
This should be exposed internationally
World Wide
Thanks for turning on the comments.
👀👂👃😈
Looking at the area on Google Maps is really eerie. Stairs leading up to nothing but trees, crumbling sidewalks, completely empty blocks. The rest of the area has caught up in some way but that particular stretch hasn't, you can even notice from the satellite images.
I believe that God cannot allow such a place to prosper ever again where the blood of the inhabitants cries from their graves. 100+ years later and that city never fully recovered. Tulsa is generationally cursed.
Maybe “Tomb of the Lost Souls”?? I’m imagining a beautiful memorial! I hope it comes to pass during my lifetime.
Thank you for FINALLY bringing truth to the masses about these horrible acts of hate..... why weren't we taught this in school?? We learn EVERYTHING else about this wicked Nation....tell it all AMERICA!!!! You don't have the right to pick and choose!!!!
My great grandfather owned a tailoring business in Greenwood that burned down in the Massacre. He took his wife and my grandfather who was 2 yrs old at the time and his other 2 kids and fled to Boley, OK, a small rural town of mostly black people. My dad was born there but moved back to Tulsa in the 70’s where I was born. The massacre devastated my family! My grandfather never recouped his losses from the fire and my dad grew up very poor. The city of Tulsa owes the descendants of the massacre reparations because it destroyed generational wealth, not to mention the mental and emotional trauma it caused!!
A whole black town burned down with 1000's homeless, over 300 killed because of a lie that was told in a newspaper and not 1 single person was arrested or charged and it's been almost 100 years and still no reparations. smh Not only that, nobody from the generations after knew a single thing about this because they didn't teach this in any public school, so people are just finding out about this, even people from Tulsa didn't know about this. This is just as bad as what happened to Emmitt Till(who was only 16 yrs. old) in 1955 when he was brutally beaten to death and his face was disfigured while thrown in into the tallahatchie river all because he whistled at a white women(and btw, she has recanted the lies she told since than when she said Emmitt physically and verbally assaulted her and she's still alive right now and still hasn't been been charged for what she did)and the 2 whiteboy's who did it admitted to what they did in a magazine, got paid for it and never faced any criminal charges.
He was actually 14.
only thing is, 300 blacks did not die, it was closer to 20 something, same as the whites that died.
10:42 they dropped the ball right there tho. if you can get a entire prehistoric fossil out of the ground, a 100 years should be no problem to excavate they just don’t want to. They’d rather obfuscate. Are you paying attention?
I’m ashamed to say, I’ve never ever heard of this ever happened !! Why!! This is just Awful !! Sadden for all the LIVES MURDERED !!!
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 never approved of racism and I agree that somebody has to say something about it. Enough is enough. But unfortunately not only black people were effected by this ignorance in human race. But we also have to remember the inhuman actions against American Natives, somebody has to remember them also.
For anyone looking for more on this, VOX has made a great video about it. Totally worth watching!
African Americans should rebuild the city in the same place and build a museum that tells in detail about the horrors the hard-working people from Greenwood have endured. I'm sick to my stomach.
Holy crap this was awful 😢 I've never heard about this! I do not and will never understand such atrocities some people commit against their fellow men and women.
I grow up in tulsa 1973 to 1996, graduated from Edison, and i never know about it intal few years after i moved way and saw it on the History channel, i was shocked and couldn't believe that we didn't learn about it in high school
This is another reason CRT is needed. It is also why “they” are passing laws to block it.
Indeed.
Springfield 1908
Tulsa 1920
Vicksburg 1874
Slocum 1910
Hamburg 1876*
Colfax 1873
Opelousas 1868
Thibodaux 1887
East St. Louis 1917
Memphis 1866
Elaine 1919
Clinton 1875
Rosewood 1923
St. Bernard Parish 1868
New Orleans 1866
Ocoee 1920
Camila 1868
Eufaula 1874
Charleston 2015
Atlanta 1906
Wilmington 1898
Washington 1919
NYC 1863
Saw this list posted by another UA-cam commenter.
*=Discovered while researching this list. 🤦🏾♀️
It’s a double tragedy. It’s a tragedy that it happened and also a tragedy it’s been hidden from history. Black people that live in Tulsa don’t even know it happened. Crazy!!!
Why no subtitles? You dont believe the deaf community needs to learn this?
UA-cam has a function for subtitles
You’ve heard of closed captioning right?? It’s on your tv and also on UA-cam. The deaf community is well aware of this. Quit trolling
@@salentino i knowww, its not provided in this vid. Zero cc option.
@@ryb3198 There is no cc option that is accurate
Little brother caring his sibling 🥺😭. But we have to be prepared because they will come again if we ever try to be united again
Wow listening to this all over again and knowing where we stand today makes me so angry!!! We can’t turn back we must demand a change no!
So important to know! Thank you for this!
I read about this in the New York Times today ? Shocking to think that a Pogrom like this happened ! I hope compensation to families of
the survivors can be made.
Honored to be interviewed for this and to be able to share such an important fact of American history. #Reparationsnow
I heard about this in my history classes growing up.
The post WWI era was a turbulent time in the US. There were race and labor rights in many locations.
Many of the people saying they didn't hear about this in school probably just don't remember it being covered in their classes. Kids have a tendency to not pay attention in class.
Or, maybe I had very good history teachers in high school.
The riots of the time are kinda what the era is known for.
Came across this story while searching for the story of rosewood,Florida 1923 from somewhere sinister. The story should be told and often and never forgotten.
This makes me really sad!!💔 Rewrite History!!! Reveal the truth ✊🏻
Lord have mercy.... I’m 41 and never heard about this and this seems planned out
And people, especially Black people from Africa love telling us to just forget the past.
Im not a big person for reparations but enough is enough.
If relatives of mass graves are found, they should all be paid from the city.
Set a 300 million dollar fund and allocate it accordingly.
If we can afford to bail out billionaires from losing half their stock portfolio, we can pay reparations for this kind of brutality.
I agree. And 300 million isn't even 0.05% of our military budget so its easily doable.
@@n.king15 Ask some of the black celebrities to share their wealth. 300 million is nothing to Oprah.
I remember learning about this during the summer before I enter 8th grade during a field trip with OSU (Oklahoma state university) I had one teacher mention it but briefly.
For those who don't know about this it's called BLACK wallstreet "The Gap band" song you dropped a bomb on me is about this the government was in on it not just klansman even tho they the same
Wow did not know The Gap band had made that song about this catastrophic event. 🤯
@@litowing0505 Gap actually stand for be Greenville acher an pine the streets they.bombed
@@purpjones1033 wow again!!! Thank you
Where'd you get that info from? I'm from Tulsa and never heard of this in my life.
Wow I never even knew that and I grew up in the Gap Band era.
I didn't find out about this until 2014 I believe. So disgusting....
I bet not one of them were arrested either
It's Amazing to know About your history
Your lies
All history will soon be revealed! All that was hidden will be found. It all can't be erased!
Indeed✊🏾
Springfield 1908
Tulsa 1920
Vicksburg 1874
Slocum 1910
Hamburg 1876*
Colfax 1873
Opelousas 1868
Thibodaux 1887
East St. Louis 1917
Memphis 1866
Elaine 1919
Clinton 1875
Rosewood 1923
St. Bernard Parish 1868
New Orleans 1866
Ocoee 1920
Camila 1868
Eufaula 1874
Charleston 2015
Atlanta 1906
Wilmington 1898
Washington 1919
NYC 1863
Saw this list posted by another UA-cam commenter.
*=Discovered while researching this list. 🤦🏾♀️
This makes a person angry
Oil made Tulsa rich, jealousy and evil made it a Massacre
Doesn't surprise me that no one was held accountable
Once again these people are lucky that black people only want equality and not revenge...👊🏾✊🏾..Also is it me but when I was growing up black history month was more of a big deal than it seems like it is these days, I have never heard of Black Wallstreet until last week..😔