The Greenwood District: Tulsa's Lost Black Wall Street

Рет қаралды 80,866

Күн бұрын

Paradise lost.
→ Subscribe for new videos two times per week.
/ @geographicstravel
Love content? Check out Simon's other KZfaq Channels:
Biographics: / @biographics
MegaProjects: / @megaprojects9649
SideProjects: / @sideprojects
Casual Criminalist: / @thecasualcriminalist
Today I Found Out: / todayifoundout
TopTenz: / toptenznet
Highlight History: / @highlighthistory
XPLRD: / @xplrd
Business Blaze: / @brainblaze6526
Source/Further reading:
National Museum of African American History and Culture, the history of Greenwood: nmaahc.si.edu/blog-post/massa...
Dreams of Black Wall Street, comprehensive podcast: www.dreamsofblackwallstreet.c...
NPR, Building Black Wall Street: www.npr.org/2021/06/02/100253...
O.W. Gurley bio: www.forbes.com/sites/antoineg...
History, when Greenwood flourished: www.history.com/news/black-wa...
Al Jazeera, roots of Black Wall Street: www.aljazeera.com/opinions/20...
Lynchings in Oklahoma: www.okhistory.org/publication...
NYTimes interactive on the district: www.nytimes.com/interactive/2...
How Greenwood rebuilt: www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/...
AC Jackson bio: blackwallstreet.org/acjackson 
History of Tulsa: www.okhistory.org/publication...
History, before and after the massacre: www.history.com/news/tulsa-ma...
Oklahoma Land Rush: www.history.com/this-day-in-h...
Rebirth of the Klan: www.history.com/news/kkk-birt...
Ku Klux Kiddies facts: www.history.com/news/kkk-yout...
Red Summer death toll: www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/h...

Пікірлер: 905

@minus100plus2 3 жыл бұрын

I have a degree in history that I earned from a California state college in the Bay Area in the late '00's where, during my studies, I took multiple different types of classes in both Indigenous and African American studies. Never before this video did I know of Natives owning slaves. Absolutely floored with our education system right now.

@cameronmachado1774 3 жыл бұрын

Read " the other slavery" by Andrés Reséndez if you want to learn more. I don't think it's our education system but the so called historians who write our textbooks and who refuse to research/teach this stuff so we don't get to read literature on it

@AlexxxxPanda 3 жыл бұрын

I knew about Native slavery but I didn’t learn about in school. Ive learned more outside of school than inside. Our education system is as broken as our political.

@madmick3794 3 жыл бұрын

Many areas prefer to make history look "nice". A local school had an author present a book to be included in secondary/high school history lessons essential reading list. The State Education department accepted and added it. My father collected over 15,000 documents proving it was a fictional story in which it claimed no native persons were ever harmed, enslaved or disadvantaged in the settling of the area . . . he has been fighting it for 50 years. He is now blind, going deaf and still spends more than a day a week on the phone lobbying who he can for it to be removed. For his trouble our families names have been removed from over 200 years of history because we befriended the native peoples then and fight for them now. His story is by no means unique. While I am not shocked you were not taught this, it is saddening it was totally ignored.

@cameronmachado1774 3 жыл бұрын

@@madmick3794 California is allegedly left wing, but why don't our high school history textbooks discuss Blair mountain or why do they smear unions?

@yt.personal.identification 3 жыл бұрын

History is written by the victors.

@TheTeeroy32 3 жыл бұрын

I've seen a few things about the Tulsa Massacre recently but this is the best I've seen, Simon has out done himself.

@33psychobunny 3 жыл бұрын

Grew up in Oklahoma, the Tulsa incident was not in our school's Oklahoma history textbook. The Red Summer is also something that did not appear in US history books. They should have been.

@michaelterrell5061 3 жыл бұрын

This seems to happen rather often.

@blueberrypirate3601 3 жыл бұрын

The worst kind of evil jealousy

@Realsovietholyman 3 жыл бұрын

Im 38 , i was 36 or so when i first heard of this. Im in Texas but love history so i was shocked when i heard that id never been taught that.

@josh_final 3 жыл бұрын

Oklahoma school now teach it

@Machtyn 3 жыл бұрын

Reading through the wiki pages of "worst riots in USA," much of them are based on race. And, no, these incidents are not taught in schools, even during "February's Black History Month." There is somewhat of a danger in teaching them as it may encourage or incite more violence. But is that a danger worth facing? The native Americans were driven west and time after time stepped on by the heavy foot of government. And we learn about these issues. The Mormons were driven west with government supported bloody violence. But not much is taught about that (unless you happen to be a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints). Democrats or Republicans, Whigs or Know-Nothings, all parties have been and are still exclusionary and / or racist. And laws are still created to either pull wealth or deny wealth to the disadvantaged - even if that law was meant to help the disadvantaged.

@franco6657 3 жыл бұрын

As a black Tulsa resident I’d have to say that you have shed more light on this event than our own school’s history books do, thank you Simon!

@earendilthemariner4307 3 жыл бұрын

Lol small world, Though of mixed race I too am a Tulsa resident. While i knew much of what was in the video, I did learn quite a bit as well. Sadly most but not all of the white population really only pay lip-service to the race (massacre) riot, but don't actually care (almost at all), even enough to see the shockingly similar parallels happening today both locally, and nation wide.

@franco6657 3 жыл бұрын

@@earendilthemariner4307 Small world indeed! I learned a great amount about the Tulsa Race Massacre growing up, but never in public schools.

@kaseythornton8155 3 жыл бұрын

I'm a grown ass adult and didn't learn about this until two years ago. I don't know whether that reflects badly on me, or my education. I made straight A's. Not much got by me. I think we just didn't learn about it at all.

@amb163 3 жыл бұрын

"Sentient sphincter" ... this is my new favourite insult.

@owenshebbeare2999 3 жыл бұрын

It is pretty funny!

@flame_emerald 3 жыл бұрын

Talking from someone who lives just outside of but works in Tulsa, thank you so much for talking more about this terrible massacre. A lot of us have been pushing to change the name from Tulsa Race Riot to Tulsa Race Massacre. Hopefully it catches on

@vulpesinculta3238 3 жыл бұрын

It wasn't a massacre, though. It involved heavy fighting, and the "perpetrators of the massacre" lost a dozen men, most of them before any of the "perpetrators" opened fire themselves.

@grumpy4577 3 жыл бұрын

By today's standards, it was a mostly peaceful protest.

@rawrsince718 Жыл бұрын

@@grumpy4577 this is a disgusting lie

@rawrsince718 Жыл бұрын

@@vulpesinculta3238 you’re wrong

@Kira-bk6hh 3 жыл бұрын

Lived in Oklahoma all my life, and taking Oklahoma History was a requirement to graduate. This was not even a footnote in the book, I had no idea it ever happened! Of course they talk about the Trail of Tears but even it was just glossed over.

@googlefashists4986 3 жыл бұрын

Did they teach that the Indians also had black slaves?

@kaseythornton8155 3 жыл бұрын

Kairos. Rhetorical timing. This ain't it sis.

@Kira-bk6hh 3 жыл бұрын

@@googlefashists4986 No they wouldn't. Because it was a school with Nation scholarships and anything like that seems to have been hand waved away.

@kayliaanntwoynet4867 3 жыл бұрын

@@googlefashists4986 only 1 teacher mentioned in the entire 12 years of school I had in Oklahoma and it was to explain why the " five civilized tribes" were "civilized"

@googlefashists4986 3 жыл бұрын

@@kayliaanntwoynet4867 I'm sure there are a lot of things that they didn't teach.

@ChrisMcCarroll 3 жыл бұрын

Great video. So many documentaries focus on the destruction. It’s nice to hear about the founding of Greenwood and the beauty that was this town at its peak.

@nannynames3218 3 жыл бұрын

The fact that I'm only hearing about this for the first time in a British accent bothers me.

@Batmanshypeman 3 жыл бұрын

Hearing Simon say “for Black folk by Black folk” in his accent gave me a good laugh.

@bman54950 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing this. Not many knew about this until recently. It's nice to see it get the exposure it requires.

@sliveredtongue 3 жыл бұрын

"Gigantic sentient sphincter" is by far one of the best descriptions of Andrew Johnson.

@TheBamidd 3 жыл бұрын

... Andrew Johnson though?

@sliveredtongue 3 жыл бұрын

@@TheBamidd ... Yes. Him. Thank you.

@jordanwilliams9300 3 жыл бұрын

Came here to say lol

@nicholaslewis8594 3 жыл бұрын

I’ve seen pictures of George Floyd, he didn’t look that violet😂

@guerrillaradio1 3 жыл бұрын

@@nicholaslewis8594 Yeah he looked more like Harambe

@Hwhshahdj 3 жыл бұрын

I live in tulsa. Trust me we haven’t forgot it

@zashbot 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah I bet all the race hustlers won’t shut the fuck up about it lmao

@wilhelmdietrich8474 3 жыл бұрын

@@zashbot Please find the nearest tall building and practice your swan dive. 😍

@kreiner1 3 жыл бұрын

@@wilhelmdietrich8474 omg I am so borrowing that 🤣

@jeremys.950 3 жыл бұрын

When I was in high school in the 90's we did a parade every year in horror and remembrance of those lives lost and I honestly thought everyone knew about this then. I was very surprised when I joined the Marines that it was not common knowledge

@wilhelmdietrich8474 3 жыл бұрын

@@kreiner1 Go for it! I'm banned for bullying racists and *phobes on three social medias right now. Worth it. We don't owe them a debate. Discourse isn't actually effective. Bully your local racist until it stops being fun and then ignore them. 🥰💚💚💚

@ryansmallwood7082 3 жыл бұрын

My First ever KZfaq comment. Black resident of Tulsa. As always awesome job Simon. And thank you for adding how the highway and urban renewal really damaged our community. This was a fact I only learned fairly recently 👍🏿

@johnchedsey1306 3 жыл бұрын

Indeed...the interstate highway system has a shameful history of always going through black or minority communities when it was being built through cities nationwide, whether it's Denver, Tulsa, or so many other cities.

@joeymclemore6623 3 жыл бұрын

@@johnchedsey1306 same story here in New Orleans. They cut the Treme in half and destroyed a thriving business a district with I10.

@jacobgillis1511 3 жыл бұрын

I grew up in Tulsa and the race Massacre of 1921 was never taught. I learned of the massacre on my own by finding a book in the public library when I was in the seventh grade.

@chexmix0101 3 жыл бұрын

Not one person went to jail for literally burning down a town and killing others.

@fvckyoutubescensorshipandt2718 3 жыл бұрын

They brought it on themselves, and back then murder was virtually legal as long as it was a black that was murdered. With laws like that they basically saved 1 guy and got 300 others killed and their whole 'hood burned down in retaliation = sheer genius.

@j3ddable 3 жыл бұрын

I can say the same for modern antifa and blm riots

@Chris58851 3 жыл бұрын

@@j3ddable Does BLM bulldoze everything down to ground? Shame on you!

@tardvandecluntproductions1278 3 жыл бұрын

@@j3ddable I guess if it was justified and unpunished then, it should be now then too. Good job, great logic.

@BonShula 3 жыл бұрын

@@j3ddable Somewhat justified.

@john90mpw 3 жыл бұрын

And to this day a lot of Oklahoma tries to sweep it under the rug whatever chance they get. And as you see. Whenever this event is presented certain folks get immediately up in arms thinking its pandering to even talk about it.

@jonathonbellaroc229 3 жыл бұрын

Why don't you cry some more about getting your asses kicked for starting shit

@john90mpw 3 жыл бұрын

@@jonathonbellaroc229 I see we out here telling lies on dead people. You mad? Must've been some of your kinfolk that participated then.

@jonathonbellaroc229 3 жыл бұрын

I see we mub da do didda finna ya'll kinsfolkx be bixxin nood. imagine not even being human

@MarloSoBalJr 3 жыл бұрын

@@john90mpw He's a troll, don't respond to him.

@captainpanic3616 3 жыл бұрын

@@john90mpw IT’S A TRAP SEND NO REPLY!

@BreweryDuke 3 жыл бұрын

As a lifelong Oklahoma resident, and a professional in the field of history and archaeology, I am pleased to see a wider public audience learning about these events in detail. The educational system in most of Oklahoma, and most of America, has given our citizenry only a cursory and white-washed history of these events for most of the last century. Only a lucky few of us have really been taught the details of that day until now, and it is a victory for progress that so many more of us have been educated on this event recently.

@sse_weston4138 3 жыл бұрын

well said, it bothers me to see the outcome of such ignorance in our public collectiveness with the continual/increase in outspoken white supremacy as well as the false belief that racism against white people is worse than racism against black people.. which.. well I don't even have an idea how people could repress memories of racial injustice against black people within their own lifetimes. Boggles the mind how some can have that mindset

@garrettkennedy6280 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah its so sad what coulda been and that the city put a highway through it is terrible just further exemplifies the lack of care or respect towards Greenwood. I am though really happy to see more attention paid to it and history more generally one of my teachers at Jenks said something about the school was wanting to put up a statue to commemorate desegregation or something to that affect.

@sse_weston4138 3 жыл бұрын

@@cameronelliott9709 Oh look a racist

@gregoryferraro7379 3 жыл бұрын

Incredible video! Thank you so much for telling this story. I learned so much about something that was only a footnote in my AP American History class in high school and something most Americans - even those living in Tulsa, had never know about.

@dwlenny2461 3 жыл бұрын

you should do a geo/biographics about the troubles in northern ireland

@cattibingo 3 жыл бұрын

Calling a decades long murderfest "the troubles" might be the most British thing ever

@BTScriviner 3 жыл бұрын

He's English, they won't.

@garretth8224 3 жыл бұрын

@@BTScriviner debatable

@sierra1513 3 жыл бұрын

It would be extremely tone-deaf to have a British person explain the troubles

@BigJonkulous 3 жыл бұрын

@@sierra1513 I don't think that is necessarily true. Was this video tone deaf since Simon's skin color doesn't match the color of the residents of Greenwood?

@ah_libra 3 жыл бұрын

Not only is this another incredible video, but one of the best videos yet!!!

@mobe5555 3 жыл бұрын

Bbog here I'd love to hear about native Americans involvement in the American Civil War

@badbiker666 3 жыл бұрын

I don't know anything about that, but I think they would have been smart to just sit back and watch us tear ourselves apart. I would think that would be very satisfying for them!

@badbiker666 3 жыл бұрын

@Fabian pachinky I had never heard of him. Did a very small amount of research and I see that you are correct. You know your history! Thank you for the enlightenment.

@Jason918114 3 жыл бұрын

I'm Cherokee from Tulsa and one of my ancestors fought and died for the Confederacy during the Civil. I think he might've owned a couple slaves too. It's weird.

@craigyeargin5332 3 жыл бұрын

I'am sure, from what I've read, alot fought for the South. Jefferson Davis promised alot of there land back, while the North was breaking treaties and taking the land for the advancement of railroads to link up with the West mainly California. Texas made up several units as well as Oklahoma. There are several good books on this subject.

@EchoBravo370 3 жыл бұрын

@@badbiker666 AS the man said, many native americans were slave owners themselves. They had a stake in the game.

@badbiker666 3 жыл бұрын

I have done some calculations. I input the number of KZfaq channels that Simon Whistler hosts, multiplied by the amount of time each video runs, added the number of hours each video takes to prepare, subtracted rehearsal time (because Simon obviously reads his copy cold on camera), and compared the results to the number of hours in a day and came to the conclusion that the only way Mr. Whistler can produce that much content is by using a Time Turner.

@myssie-theanimedevourer5835 3 жыл бұрын

🤣

@Caterfree10 3 жыл бұрын

or he has a team for each channel like a sensible person with time management skills...

@2MeatyOwlLegs 3 жыл бұрын

you do realise that he doesn't do research, editing or script writing, don't you?

@badbiker666 3 жыл бұрын

@@2MeatyOwlLegs I do. It was a joke. There's no such thing as a Time Turner except in the Harry Potter stories.

@badbiker666 3 жыл бұрын

@@Caterfree10 I know that. It was a joke. There's no such thing as a Time Turner except in the Harry Potter stories.

@41Fit 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you…just thank you. Well done.

@vzionista7 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Simon (and friends) for this video. 🙏🏾

@--enyo-- 3 жыл бұрын

Wow, I asked for this just a few weeks ago, so it must have already been in the works. Thanks. 👍👍

@sirsmartypants7086 3 жыл бұрын

I would really like to see that video on Indian involvement in the Civil War. First I've heard of this. I suspected it but you know the great American Education system has failed us so many times. I've learnt so much from your videos. Thank you Simon

@murph7421 3 жыл бұрын

18:30 that's a picture of the Branch Davidian compound at Waco, not the Oklahoma City bombing.

@chipvogel 3 жыл бұрын

hahahahaha

@lolitabubbles26 2 жыл бұрын

@@chipvogel Yeah....SUPER hilarious.

@jeffjohnson1966 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Simon for finally covering this event! I had mention this in the comment about a year ago, I don't know if you saw it, but I'm glad that you did this video. It was very well done and informative. Thank you.

@tobyeperkins5301 3 жыл бұрын

I grew up in Tulsa. I didn’t learn that it had even happened until I went to college.

@semaj_5022 2 жыл бұрын

Man this story never fails to completely break my heart. Those poor people. If they didn't lose their lives, they lost their homes, loved ones, freedom, and everything they worked for and built up over the years. I can only imagine what a bright and vibrant community Greenwood(and by extension, Tulsa as whole) would be today had this tragic event never befallen it.

@minus100plus2 3 жыл бұрын

This might be your best yet. Great job and keep up the good work.

@goingsnakedistrict 3 жыл бұрын

There is one small error in this program. When describing the abundance of businesses within Greenwood, the host lists "banks" as one of the many amenities. No bank was located within the Greenwood District of Tulsa. The oft-heard nickname for Greenwood, "Black Wall Street," is a misnomer because in fact this section of the city contained no financial institution.

@zimbabwe_twinnedwithanfield 3 жыл бұрын

The name wall street is a modern term that depics trade. That is what was going on at Tulsa, trade hence why they refer to it as black wall street as black people where making trades in that specific area

@goingsnakedistrict 3 жыл бұрын

@@zimbabwe_twinnedwithanfield The term Black Wall Street is not a new term. Booker T. Washington referred to the area as "Negro Wall Street" many decades ago. Yes, the term refers to the economic activity of the black district of Tulsa. However, that business did not include a financial institution.

@zimbabwe_twinnedwithanfield 3 жыл бұрын

Umm actually it was the black man that started running numbers on the streets. Most of the number runners in those days where actually black men. There would be no stock market without the 'numbers game'.

@lucasverhoeven4249 3 жыл бұрын

Great video. Maybe Kristalnacht is a good subject for another video

@EclecticDD 3 жыл бұрын

I wonder how many people didn't understand this reference, as in this same week there's a 47 year old college graduate member of Congress stating she didn't know the extent of the Holocaust.

@sandhilltucker 3 жыл бұрын

Its like how most people don't even remember The Kent State Shooting. I was born in 1993 and I had to look it up after older people told me about it. I wonder why the liberal morons running the country don't mention that or the unarmed woman shot and killed on the capitol steps by a law enforcement officer.

@googlefashists4986 3 жыл бұрын

The real kristallnacht, where 6 million jews, and millions of others were murdered.

@bishop51807 3 жыл бұрын

@@sandhilltucker Liberal? you do realize Richard Nixon (R) was president during the Kent state massacre? I don't see left and right I just see wrong.

@stewart2589 3 жыл бұрын

@@googlefashists4986 that's the holocaust not Kristallnacht

@christinedeshano2872 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Simon. Impeccable timing.

@BrandanTheBroker 3 жыл бұрын

A day before Juneteenth, thank you Simon!

@googlefashists4986 3 жыл бұрын

Yep, blunts the race baiters who claim the US is systemically racist.

@stewart2589 3 жыл бұрын

@@googlefashists4986 it is but isn't at the same time, you can't call it racist and be right but you can't say it isn't racist and be right

@daftnezzie 3 жыл бұрын

@@googlefashists4986 it must be so sad to be you, replying like this to literally every comment. This is how you spend time. So hateful, SO obsessed! 😂😂😂

@kaseythornton8155 3 жыл бұрын

Ignore the troll y'all. If you don't feed it, it'll die.

@Grovestreet4lif3 3 жыл бұрын

It’s amazing to see how many people from my hometown watch this channel. They didn’t teach us about this in Tulsa Public Schools but at least now it’s getting the recognition it deserves.

@glenwest1911 3 жыл бұрын

So, glad you covered this!!

@AndrejGobec 3 жыл бұрын

Learning so much about the land of the free on these channels! This should be on trending all year long ...

@tonyplank 3 жыл бұрын

Simon, I've been a fan of yours for some time and watch your various channels regularly. Perhaps it is my bias as a native Tulsan showing, but I don't think so. This may be your best video ever. The writing was splendid and the production exceptional. Thank you for telling this story in your unique style.

@nrhudec 3 жыл бұрын

The bridge shown when talking about the highway through greenwood is the 23rd st bridge which is actually on the opposite side of downtown from where greenwood is.

@deusexaethera 3 жыл бұрын

Good to know, but are there any photos of the correct bridge he could've used? It's not like he was going to fly to Tulsa just to take a picture of a bridge himself.

@myssie-theanimedevourer5835 3 жыл бұрын

As a Native & African American mix, I'm appalled by Andrew Johnson. 😒 The real shame is how some of our fellow Americans and government are against teaching things like this in the schools. Our (all Americans) history is suppressed to assuage the shame of the past.

@christinedeshano2872 3 жыл бұрын

I grew up in Oklahoma. They never taught us about the Massacre in Tulsa in school. I first learned about it on Watchmen. It's disgusting how much our government hides from us and how much people, the kind with my complexion, chose not to learn. Might make us feel like we have a long history of being pretentious dicks. In elementary school, we were taught that the land grab was an exciting event bothered only by Sooners and the occasional Native American, although you probably understand that was not the term they used. They didn't bother with details like connecting the land grab to the Trail of Tears, that may have made us not want to play. While I learned about Juneteeth when my family moved to Texas, so much hate was just brushed aside, as if pretending it didn't happen was going to fix anything. The state I live in now was always anti-slavery, but they also had exclusion laws, because of course they did. 🙄 I get that it makes (white) people incredibly uncomfortable to talk about how shitty we've been, but nothing will get better until we do. I feel like I am preaching to the choir though, because those who need to hear it don't like to listen.

@josephozturk3288 3 жыл бұрын

Do you know thousands offered slaves used native Americans as slaves too?

@myssie-theanimedevourer5835 3 жыл бұрын

@@josephozturk3288 oh, yeah. I'm very aware of Native American's involvement with American Slavery, both as slaves and slavers.

@molonlabe820 3 жыл бұрын

@@christinedeshano2872 it might make some uncomfortable. It doesn't make me uncomfortable because I'm not responsible for the actions of other people. Humans are tribal by nature. It's how we evolved so to expect it to change over a few hundred years is naive at best. While I strongly believe we should remember and learn from our past, there are far too many people that jump at the opportunity to exacerbate grievances to make themselves feel virtuous or spin it for financial gain. Yet another failing of human nature.

@josephozturk3288 3 жыл бұрын

@@myssie-theanimedevourer5835 I said African Americans also enslaved natives

@flyin4352 3 жыл бұрын

Every. Single. Time I think I've heard the depths humanity can sink to I am horribly surprised to find myself wrong.

@DownwithEA1 3 жыл бұрын

I was furiously upset when I realized this was not taught at any point during my education. Thank you for the video.

@TheCorpsehatch 3 жыл бұрын

1:24 Has Simon ever done a complete video on the Trail of Tears?

@Amandcr 3 жыл бұрын

I would love to see one!

@kayliaanntwoynet4867 3 жыл бұрын

I grew up in perry and was required to take Oklahoma history. The first time I heard of the tulsa race massacre, I was in 9th grade and the passage in the textbook was barely a paragraph

@ninob564 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for shedding light on this horrendous massacre that constantly gets swept under the rug! You have a huge platform & other can see what it was/is like living in America as a Black man/woman.

@skyeseaborn1170 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for this one. Jan. 6, 2020, was our generation’s repeat.

@theshadowman1398 3 жыл бұрын

So those people tried to make a descent life for themselves without hurting no one and a bunch of jealous nimrods attacked them for it. Nasty.

@anonemus2971 3 жыл бұрын

American History is not taught in schools in America, American Mythology is. The best example of this is the George Washington chopping down the cherry tree myth.

@deusexaethera 3 жыл бұрын

National histories are rarely taught in any nation. People prefer national mythologies instead.

@ah_libra 3 жыл бұрын

They seriously care more about teaching Greek mythology than they do teaching America's ACTUAL history.

@UTxTheArchangel 3 жыл бұрын

Easier to brainwash people into thinking the United States is greater than any nation. Void of the wrong doings other nations did. The United States barely sees slavery as more than a blemish on it's past. Refuses to admit that the treatment of natives was genocide. Similar to how Turkey denies what happened with Armenia as genocide, and how the former Iranian President claimed the Holocaust never happened. The United States is a nation in denial. Just listen to how people today respond to racism claims.

@jessejoyce1295 3 жыл бұрын

I think that this is fundamentally the major problem with the education system in America, the starting point or ultimate goal is not to teach children the truth of the world they live in. The point seemingly is to get those kids working when they’re a little older, and to unquestioningly accept the status quo. In my experience growing up in America’s public education system, thinking for yourself will only get you in trouble. Rote learning of slogans and half truths is the only way to pass your tests and eventually become a contributor to the consumer economy.

@lolitabubbles26 2 жыл бұрын

I was going to grade school in the 90s in Texas. It took me until my 20s to realize how I was being brainwashed to be a Nationalist. Every subject starts with "America is great, here is why". Nothing was taught objectively. If a teacher tried to go "outside of the curriculum" you'd have parents mobilizing and the education board throwing you under the bus. I have a friend who used to teach Chem in Dallas. It's gotten better but we still have a huge uphill battle with people trying to discredit CRT. It reminds me of all those governments who murdered teachers and intellectuals...

@66tboyd 2 жыл бұрын

Great video, I was raised in Tulsa and did not know much about this until about 20 years ago. That area has had a bit of a rebound since a new baseball stadium was built.

@stitchilonka 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing this story. I have learned to much from your videos. 🙏

@trapslulu 3 жыл бұрын

Please do more of these. There were so many massacres across America that need to be discussed. I am a Tulsa native and got lucky enough to have family that taught me about this, and so many others.

@patricialessard8651 3 жыл бұрын

Wasn't there a town in the panhandle of Florida that suffered a similar fate? I thought that I read about some time ago. Thanks for bringing stories like this out for people that didn't know about these and shinning a light on them. Stay well.

@sse_weston4138 3 жыл бұрын

@@patricialessard8651 Also Wilmington, North Carolina endured a similar mob descend onto the town in 1898. Black residents massacred, their homes and businesses burned, and even a coup d'état

@trapslulu 3 жыл бұрын

There are too many to name, but you can look up Red Summer that Simon mentioned in the video and it will show all of the massacres across the nation. Mainly on the east coast

@jaydensmith6502 3 жыл бұрын

@@patricialessard8651 yes, I believe that was Rosewood

@YodaSmokes 3 жыл бұрын

Lived in Oklahoma my whole life and never heard about this Edit: I may have heard about the ending to this story, but it’s def one they won’t tell you in school.

@JaleDoris 3 жыл бұрын

Same. I heard about it through family stories. My great grandmother told me stories about those years. She was 19 at the time.

@johnqpublic2718 3 жыл бұрын

I grew up in Oklahoma and definitely was taught about this in each Oklahoma History course I was required to take. This was 1997-2004.

@YodaSmokes 3 жыл бұрын

@@johnqpublic2718 I was only required to take 1 in 2009 and we certainly did not. 🤷🏻‍♂️

@StfuFFS 3 жыл бұрын

That's because the story is highly politicized into an attempted indictment of modern Republicans. Which is hilarious since this was a southern Democrat state who hated the North and their president, Abraham Lincoln and his "war of aggression". All of these atrocities are why the democrats of today keep flat out lying saying, "Republicans then would be Democrats now". And that is either flat out stupid or historically manipulative (or both).

@GrockleTD 3 жыл бұрын

Have you ever heard of the Tragedy of The Greenwood District? ______ I thought not, it isn't a story the Republicans would tell you...

@THAFUNKYTRUMPET 2 ай бұрын

As a native Tulsan and former teacher this is possibly the best video on the massacre I've ever seen. Thank you for making this.

@barryleslie7727 3 жыл бұрын

One of the saddest and most shocking videos I've seen on here. Am grateful for your keeping this event in public awareness

@Chrisxerri 3 жыл бұрын

I'd never heard of this incident before. Horrific and deeply saddened.

@zashbot 3 жыл бұрын

it’s because it never happened, they’ve only started talking about it in the last 3 years

@zashbot 3 жыл бұрын

@MartyrX yeah you ever see transgender people be mentioned before Bruce Jenner? they were always cross dressers or drag queens. the same thing is happening here. the media is inventing a new zeitgeist

@critterboy75 3 жыл бұрын

@MartyrX And there is your perfect demonstration as to why you've never heard of it before this video, people like him exist.

@JamesHilderbrand76 3 жыл бұрын

Beautifully told. Sadly, they are once again trying to make it so that this is not told in schools anymore.

@deusexaethera 3 жыл бұрын

Which "they" are we talking about?

@cuszco 3 жыл бұрын

@@deusexaethera I'm guessing the same "they" that want to preserve confederate statues for their historical values.

@erin5763 3 жыл бұрын

@@vulpesinculta3238 well, since you need it spelt out, W-H-I-T-E P-E-O-P-L-E, that's who. specifically the powerful/rich/racist ones.

@erin5763 3 жыл бұрын

@@vulpesinculta3238 lemme just give you a handful, Lord knows I could fill a novel, but here we go... Rep. MGT, Sen. Roy Blunt, Sen. Mitch McConnell, Rep. Andy Briggs, Rep. Lauren Boebert, Rep. Michael Cloud, Former Officer Kim Potter, Former Officer Derek Chauvin, officers John Mattingly, Brett Hankison and Myles Cosgrove. Just to name a sliver of a percent.

@erin5763 3 жыл бұрын

@@vulpesinculta3238 I mean, you could have just googled, which senators/representatives defended Jan 6th or confederate statues. You can also Google police who have unjustly killed black Americans. It's not that tricky really.

@DeerheartStudioArts 3 жыл бұрын

thank you so very very much for doing this video. Shocking history!

@RayLabs 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for doing this episode. I had never heard of this shameful event.

@BrancovdBoomen 3 жыл бұрын

Wow! Coincidentally, I watched a video about this topic in class last week! That one was not as detailed and as well narrated as this one. Keep up the good work! Much love from the Netherlands

@mlhussivxi 3 жыл бұрын

It’s sick that The Netherlands is teaching American history better than America.

@Truename586 3 жыл бұрын

@MartyrX lol

@BrancovdBoomen 3 жыл бұрын

@MartyrX We sure do! Although, the way that might be taught might differ greatly. Undoubtedly, there are schools that teach that history with pride and saying it was the golden age for the Netherlands. While there are also schools that heavily talk about the horrors colonialism and slavery have caused. It might even simply depend on the teacher. I have had two history teachers. One who could quite be described as a nationalist, who would teach in the manner I explained first. While my second teacher is someone who really wants to teach history, so we learn from the mistakes made in the past. No matter the teachings, I am very sorry for the pain that my ancestors have caused towards your people.

@ignitionfrn2223 3 жыл бұрын

1:15 - Chapter 1 - Oklahoma dreams 4:55 - Chapter 2 - A rush & a push 7:55 - Chapter 3 - A tale of 2 cities 10:50 - Chapter 4 - Dreamland 14:20 - Chapter 5 - Red summer 18:15 - Chapter 6 - Aftermath

@beufis6979 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for doing a video on this. To many Americans don't know about it.

@12TribeTone 3 жыл бұрын

I commend you for doing a video on this! And it was told well Simon

@darinbauer8122 3 жыл бұрын

Thanx dude! I still can't watch the History Channel's version. Also, the post-city gentrification resonated my urban studies research knowledge. We as a species need to look at post-Hausmanism and take it seriously.

@JaleDoris 3 жыл бұрын

Hey!! I live on Greenwood and Elgin in Tulsa!

@thomasmullins1783 3 жыл бұрын

I live on garnett

@DiegoRodriguez-po7yg 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for putting this together.

@theangelbelow88 3 жыл бұрын

This story always puts a damper on my day...

@thomasmullins1783 3 жыл бұрын

I live in Tulsa and it's definitely still felt today..

@NinaRossBusiness 3 жыл бұрын

To Simon and the Geographics Team - Great Job 👍🏿

@pappadeux9159 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent video Simon. About time...

@wmarkwitherspoon 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for covering this...

@FoxDragon 3 жыл бұрын

I remember hearing about this for the first time a few years back and I really wish I could remember where or how, since I don't think it was at college, and I'm sure it wasn't mentioned in any schooling I had before then. Horrifying doesn't even begin to describe it. I've heard there are some arguments that police and even national guardsman participated as well, but I cannot find any confirmation of that easily. At the very least they didn't do much to stop it right away.

@NWOWCW4Life1 3 жыл бұрын

Wouldn’t be surprised

@joeyr7294 3 жыл бұрын

Nice to see you guys cover this story! 🍻

@Jungoguy Жыл бұрын

The fact that I never learned about this in school is a crime against the field of history.

@khyvich 3 жыл бұрын

Exceptional, Simon. Well done.

@VickyShawcooksalot 3 жыл бұрын

For those who have never heard of this maybe you would recognize the name of "The Oklahoma Race Riots"? Or "The Oklahoma Race War"? A part of American history we should never forget. Because we never ever want to repeat it. This is what hate and real racism breeds.

@googlefashists4986 3 жыл бұрын

Yep, that is why CRT is dangerous and racist. Blaming schoolkids today for the past.

@kryogenik2073 2 жыл бұрын

So with that said can we stop with the CRT bullshit? Asking for a friend

@garrym09 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for trying to set the name strait, just as I was taught in school, in Oklahoma, many years before anyone knew what Critical Race Theory was.

@makeracistsafraidagain 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for presenting this today.

@googlefashists4986 3 жыл бұрын

CRT = racism

@BohemianChick 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Simon! Please do a video on the Devil's Punchbowl concentration camp in Natchez Mississippi.

@jessejoyce1295 3 жыл бұрын

Terribly, crushingly sad. I can’t believe that I only became aware of this atrocity in the last couple years. White or black, we’re all just human beings. I can’t fathom the pain these poor people endured, both the massacre and the complete lack of justice afterwards.

@theCongoleseDude 3 жыл бұрын

This put a tear in my eye.

@whimsicalstray 3 жыл бұрын

Looking at Tulsa now, it's really gone South. Most of Oklahoma has, but it was already there.

@Amandcr 3 жыл бұрын

I often imagine what could have been if this massacre and burning had not happened. I definitely think the original Greenwood neighborhood and it's citizens could have made Tulsa a better place. It's just sad.

@whimsicalstray 3 жыл бұрын

@@Amandcr The ultimate "this is why we can't have nice things." Everyone's too busy bringing each other down. Greenwood even supported each other with some proto socialism.

@kryogenik2073 2 жыл бұрын

Learned about this travesty in school many moons ago and its still a sad story today as it was back then.

@cameronmachado1774 3 жыл бұрын

Can you make one on the battle of blair mountain that happened months apart from tulsa?

@matthewcasey5059 3 жыл бұрын

Lmao sentient sphincter… nailed that analogy!

@owenshebbeare2999 3 жыл бұрын

Plenty of those in politics globally, before and after Jackson reated his moronic head. Politcs attracts such people.

@samanthaw2049 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for doing this. I've lived in the Tulsa area my entire life and didn't learn about it, until I was in my 20s. Btw..."giant sentient sphincter"....nicely done. 👏

@chemdog1632 3 жыл бұрын

This is the first I've heard of Black Wallstreet, I'm not shocked that America wants to gloss over its disgusting past. Can't help but to be sickened by it, this video brought me to tears. When is America going to make things right?

@daniellemorgan-jackson4114 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for covering this. I'm a local and this isn't talked about enough. It's not taught in school or any other history lesson locally. I learned about it as a kid from the grandmother of a black friend, she survived the ordeal. I've been fascinated and absolutely horrified by the occurrence ever since. I educate everyone I can about the topic. White people here don't even really know about it.

@padawanmage71 3 жыл бұрын

I really didn’t know about this since it was never mentioned in any history course in all my schooling. Even when I saw the ‘Watchmen’ tv series, I had to look it up to read up on it. When I read about the voting laws passed back then, I thought how the more things change, the more they stay the same.

@googlefashists4986 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah asking people to have ID to vote is Jim Crow.

@padawanmage71 3 жыл бұрын

@@googlefashists4986 I guess it depends on your POV. If you only have a social security card and no drivers license (because you couldn't afford a car, public transportation for cheaper, etc), and the voting place won't let you in without a license, that's one way. If the early voting boxes that were always there close to home, and that you've always used in the past are suddenly taken away with only a score or two spread out over the major cities (places you don't normally go to), is another way. And, if said boxes are only allowed open during certain hours of the day, making it that much harder to make time (maybe you work during those hours or can't get there due to public transportation taking too long to get there, etc) is another. Or another is it depends on your skin color...or your privilege.

@googlefashists4986 3 жыл бұрын

@@padawanmage71 It also depends if you have a brain in your head. In your case you don't.

@carolind6264 3 жыл бұрын

When you got to the part about the highway I literally burst into tears. They couldn’t even let them have what remained.

@MarloSoBalJr 3 жыл бұрын

Its fucking shame too. Here in, Baltimore we still deal with our "Highway to Nowhere" that displaced ~10k residents & shopkeepers... the sore eye in the West Side

@100dfrost 3 жыл бұрын

Good video, I posted it on my FB page. Horrible story, told here very well, thank-you.

@lolitabubbles26 2 жыл бұрын

The numbers of the dead is definitely under represented even after the resurgence. Locally, people believe there is a mass grave on private land that no one can access. Yet.

@jacquelinelaface136 3 жыл бұрын

Please do a video on the Canadian Residential School system. I am horrified and disturbed by the bodies of children being found at these locations. However, I am also horrified by the fact so many people ignore or do not know about this terrible events.

@Sonnyxcx 3 жыл бұрын

I'm so mad that I wasn't taught this in school.

@swim_ad 3 жыл бұрын

That's because you didn't read unless they told you to. And when you did, you read what they told you to.

@Atreid3s 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah I can't wait. US history will consist only of slavery, Jim crow, tulsa, and the holocaust I cant wait

@googlefashists4986 3 жыл бұрын

Yep it would have changed your life.

@kva7922046 3 жыл бұрын

And it won’t be in most Red States with the new laws requiring only “patriotic” history and discussion be taught.

@GuntherRommel 3 жыл бұрын

Another great one, Simon.

@FloozieOne Жыл бұрын

I had vaguely heard about this only due to the outcry when a political campaign (guess who's) decided to have a convention in Tulsa on the anniversary of the massacre several years ago but despite the outrage and the repeated information that 300 had died there was no information at all about what Greenwood had been like before. Since that was crucial to understanding why the whole thing happened. The jealousy, resentment and the belief that blacks should not have the right to have more than whites all contributed. I didn't know anything about this before this video. Thank you again Simon for a masterpiece of history re-told in all its ugly glory.