My grandmother Maria Morales Gutierrez Aleman de Resendez--a native of Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico and a recent citizen of Texas--moved to Tulsa with her husband Matilde Gutierrez de Cantu in 1921. During the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre while airplanes were shooting machine guns at the scared black crowds in the streets of North Tulsa she scooped up a little Black boy and girl and carried them to safety. An article was written about her memories of this hateful massacre by white Tulsans in "The Eastern Oklahoma Catholic" newspaper circa 1986. She will always be my hero. R.I.P. abuelita. 🌷🌻🌸🌺🌻🌹

I knew about it in the 80's from my grandparents. They were children when it happened. My great grandfather was sheriff in Bragg Oklahoma. The story is during that time period, many of the natives suffered because of the influx of whites. There still is a negative attitude towards white influence in the Cherokee nation.

HATE LIKE THIS DON'T JUST GO AWAY..

I find it interesting that we still have 100 year old women that can testify about that day in Tulsa but where’s the elderly white people that was there, that heard their family talk about that day and how they killed black people. Why are they silent?

Olivia Hooker, one of the last survivors of the 1921 Tulsa massacre, she had a brief interview where she spoke about the massacre that happened when she was only about 7 years old - Dr. Hooker was among the first black women to serve in the Coast Guard

Over 3k views but only 2 commented with 77 likes. Only one way this can get out to rest of KZfaq is by touching the like button people,let’s help share this. All people should know what happened. When we don’t do our part we help sweep it under the rug like them old hateful generations

...and as a final insult, Oklahoma in the 1970s drove Highway 244 through the center of the rebuilt neighborhood of Greenwood, Tulsa, Oklahoma dividing the community in half, in the name of “urban renewal.”

This should be in the history books . This was a horrific event.

We held ourselves up by our Bootstraps! Y’all burn it down!

Thank you ALL for taking the time to share and speak for those who weren't allowed to. I never would have known about this had we not began hearing stories about the anniversary of this massacre. Knowledge, understanding and action are key in not repeating cycles of the past. I am educating at home and this has been added to topics we now discuss. Thanks again.

THOMAS NAGANO, you are right! The interstate highway system construction took paths of least resistance in cities, Black Communities. This was common around the country.

Just like the holocaust, 911, World Wars, Civil War, and other historical events, we NEED TO KNOW relevant history.

Tell the story!! I grew up in Oklahoma, about an hour and a half west of Tulsa. My parents grew up about 30-45 minutes away from Tulsa. I spent a good deal of my early life in Tulsa. I had no clue about this until I took a 3000-level course in African-American history at the University of Oklahoma. That’s a joke, and a societal failure.

The USA is supposed to be a light to the world, sitting examples for other countries. The USA has harmed Black people from the day we were stolen from our homelands. Reparations are due, confession and an apology is due, for the harm done and is still being done.

This just makes me so 😡! My people have been through so much and we still find the strength to get up, start over and keep going. I love us forever.🤎

Just the thought- I’m in tears

Such as shame, horror wickedness at its heights.

In the 70s I took Black American History and Political Science Black Perspective 101 in college and this was never mentioned. I never heard of it until my senior years today

It makes me angry that I’ve never heard of this before until now . This should be part of history curriculum in grade schools and high schools all over the country ... adjust reaffirms my distrust of the American Government and What It Has Become ...

Reparations for the descendants of enslaved Africans in these divided states of America.

It's good that the truth finally comes out!

Please watch this and then pass it on to someone who needs to learn.. Share it so all people to learn the real American history..

Teach your children about black matters Don’t depend on the school system to do so Do your own research

It only took 100 Years to get out.

On 05/29/2021 there were 100's Black militia members were armed marching w/ Black women, men, and children through Greenwood. There were sniper teams spotted in tall half built buildings by militia members and a couple tense scenes with police. Then they FINALLY honored the previously submitted petition to an open carry march. The ancestral vibrations were intoxicating 🤜🏽🤛🏽💯🪲🌕⚫

I was educated in southern public schools and they never taught us this tragedy happened. It wasn’t until I watched HBO’s Watchmen that I became aware. Just awful.

Im so glad this movie is coming out. White America has tried to rewrite history to cover the ugly past and sins of their ancestors. As a black man movies like the Greenbook and this movie are major events in history and yet im a 50 year old man and have just learned about this. The same way they want us to believe Columbus discovered America. Its sad and Im happy to support movies like thisone.

Those families deserve reparations! This is abominable.

I’m black and never known about this.

So it was a total black genocide in the Greenwood area of Tulsa, Oklahoma in May 1921. Truly heartbreaking. They should be paid reparations for this horrific tragedy.

There were other thriving ADOS communities as well. Our history is vast with this sort of atrocity

One hundred years has passed, and still no reparations.

Never heard of this massacre. Shameful!!! Our history is surely tainted. Thanks for bringing this to light. So much underserved terror.

Animals and absolute monsters! And they do even worse things today that I have experienced personally!

Apart of American History that has been swept under the rug (for whatever reason). It can be helpful if we self-educate ourselves regarding this situation. Learn and share this history/knowledge. Acknowledge and respect the past.

Soooooo appreciate this "Our Story" of "Our History" being told by Indigenous People that look like "Me". Eye 👁am 60(+) and 👁never knew the "depth" and "magnitude" of Indigenous Amerikan "Our Story" on "Our" land. Much Respect and Bravo 👏to everyone involved 👏. To the "Matriarch" that's alive and able to "Witness" such a "Surreal" moment in time, much love, continued healing and health ❤, prosperity your way ❤💙💖♥💕💜. It's Our Time to "Rewrite" Our Story, for Us, by Us. Writely/Rightly Soooooo. 💥🔥💥.

We gotta stop allowing others to tell our story.

I hope a recording will be made to purchase for historical purpose.

Why do these individuals feel so threatend that they have to DESTROY EVERYTHING we build??? Thanks for this amazing information.

I was born and raised in Tulsa , went to public school and I never heard of the race massacre until my grandmother told me about it.

It took 100 years for this to be talked about! Truly Sickening...

We had over 60 Black towns we created after during the Reconstruction period

THIS SHOULD HAVE NEVER HAPPENED !!! HOW COULD A BOY ASSAULT A GROWN WOMAN, THIS WAS PLOTTED ,YES WHITES WERE JEALOUS OF BLACKS SUCCESS !!! SAD !! SAD !! A YOUNG BLACK BOY INNOCENTLY BUMPED INTO A WHITE ELEVATOR OPERATOR , ITS VINDICATION TO RECONIZE THE BLACK WALL STREET IN TULSA, WE PRAY THIS MOVIE IS MADE KNOWN TO ALL OF US AND OUR CHILDREN AND GRAND CHILDREN !!!

I'm 60yr.man 5grandkids it was not taught. Now 100yrs later Wow

This comes to show you that what you hide in the dark will sooner or later come out in the light. America or even Tulsa, OK did not want to mention or talk about this historic atrocity. Now you just seen this fact unfold 100 years later today.

I wonder if this incident among others is what caused my grandfather to leave the States and return to the Caribbean? Too much violence.

Americans doing this to another Americans and nobody was held accountable..

It’s awareness of historical events like this and the treatment of indigenous people that cracks me up when people talk about ‘cancel culture’ as if it’s some horrible thing invented recently by the Left.

Maria Morales Gutierrez Aleman de Resendez...Thank you was your humanity. Thanks for sharing Tinalina!

This is so sad 😭 . I was watching the movie “ The Long Walk Home “ With Whoopi Goldberg) I was crying 😭 the whole time 😭😭😭😭 I’m still upset 😭 about.

This has happened so many times, and we will never know about them all, just like the rosewood massacre they made a movie about it. The white man has did so many nationality so bad, but God has the last word!!.

Love y’all ❤️ great lesson

When will reparations be paid to all descendants of slavery?

US is protesting China human rights in Xinjiang But the US treated black worst than any other countries

♥️knowledge and sharing. Caring and feeling. Peace to All the Ancestors known and unknown ashé.

What happened here was absolutely horrible. My heart goes out to all these people. I can’t believe those people that caused so much death and pain to others got away with this. I am 59 years old and just heard of what happened two weeks ago. We the people have to fix this and make sure nothing like this ever occurs again. All the families that went though this should be taken care of and receive what is due to them and there families.

This is SO SAD, the lies and coverup. I guess they thought this would be buried and forgotten, BUT BLACK PEOPLE NEVER FORGET and we will NEVER let them forget, AND THEY "ALL" SHOULD BE EXPOSED.

Floyd Thompson said American hypocrisy is a global JOKE!!!

It’s gonna be while til you see black neighborhoods thriving again like Tulsa.. God blessed all the beautiful Black people who we lost in that massacre. This proves that White Supremacy is real

There have been over a hundred "edits" on Wiki during past week including going from a "riot" to a "massacre". Why is that? :-)

To think most of us, that do know about this tragic event, would had never knew if the internet never existed. Scary thought

Did anyone get a random group chat with numbers not listed in your phone to watch this? I did but didn’t open the text.

Reminder no one can erase delete and rewrite history, better than the white man.

If there is one thing that I have come to know, the envy in the soul of racist whites, in the seventies, I was moving up with meritorious promotions in the usmc, Major, Captain, lieutenant, staff sgt, Gunnery sgt. you name it, these people in these ranks were all just to happy about having me in their unit, I was young and strong as any other bull, when there was any type of competition event coming, as I pass by the Major, he would say, we expect you out there representing us, I was game, no problem I was ready from the age of about 13, I was above the physical requirement for military purposes, everything was fine, then, I married my high school love, and she and soon our son were welcomed, we lived a couple of miles from the base, I rode my 15 speed bike to and from the base, everything changed when my late parents came to visit and saw me riding the bike, they bought me and my wife a Toyota Corolla, green and brand new, next, my late parents as a gift bought us a Mascot mobile home, back in the 70s mobile home parks full of marines with their families was not even remotely close to what low standard the parks are viewed as today, across our yard a sgt lived with his wife, they rented their mobile home, we owned ours, so, I had no idea that some feathers were ruffled by my independence from needs, it all started to change immediately when I, as some young men did, I committed an unexplainable act, I never got the chance to apologize to my parents for it even though they never mentioned anything contradictory of it, I got caught by a clever advertisement by a dodge dealer in Savannah Ga, Karp motors, the car was spinning with lights illuminating it, the two doors were wide opened, and they got me, next day, I road into the base in this new car, 1975 dodge Charger, all hell broke loose, the white people who were happy about my existence became my only enemies and they tried in deed and in vain to destroy me.

Nat King Cole did not perform in the Greenwood 1921 era. Cole was born in April 1919. I am 80 years old and Coles' recording success was in the 1950s, I grew up with Nat King Cole (not his born name by the way.

Excellent. Important that we know about this tragic event. These survivors of victims are due. Make it right, Tulsa powers that be.

One of the first legislative acts taken by the post war Bundestag (German legislature), was to roll back property ownership to prewar ownership. We should do the same thing in this case. Let's go to the 1921 land records and do the research. That's a starting place.

Looked up this after learning about the Rosewood massacre. Unreal.

Glad to find a comment section where there are not as many deniers of the race massacre, cause man I have seen a lot.

Im 34 years old and im just now hearing about this. Such tragedy

I think it’s time for black Americans to receive reparations.

POSTING THIS to my Facebook page.

Every time I hear this piece I get a very look where else remember how we got here now that we're here

There were other White race riots during this time period as well...

Where can I watch the full documentary?

Really sad, horrific event, however most people don't know compensation was offered and declined: A prior agreement between the Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Commission and the three living survivors of the event was upended at the last minute. Legal representatives for the survivors previously agreed that they would appear at the “Remember and Rise” event in return for $100,000 each and a $2 million seed gift to a reparations coalition fund, according to state Sen. Kevin Matthews, chairman of the commission, speaking at a Friday press conference. The parties agreed to those terms, he said. But at the last minute, the demands changed. Lawyers for the survivors asked for $1 million for each and $50 million for the fund, said Matthews.

I feel deceived by both white and black people. I had never heard of Tulsa until 2016. I was 53 at the time and had no idea that Black Wall Street ever existed. Surely, Martin Luther King, Malcom X, and Jesse Jackson knew about this. Why didn't they ever talk about it?

Why can't I remember this Tulsa massacred 1921 in school history books or my history class 🤔

I’m not sure how true this is, but I was told that the song “You Drop the Bomb on Me” by “The Gab Band” was actually about the Tulsa Massacre, and that’s when I first heard about Black Wall Street. I thought it was kind amazing how they used music to tell us about our history, kind of how when the slaves use to sing of all the escape routes and we thought they were just songs, we just have to listen and decode the message that they are sending.

Thanks for your water give

This is the first of many of these events to be uncovered. Wanna learn more? Check out these additional massacres: Rosewood 1923, Chicago 1919, Detroit 1943, New York 1863, Springfield 1908, Memphis 1866, East St. Louis 1917, Wilmington 1898, Charleston 2015, Eufala 1874, Camila 1868, Oconee 1920, St Bernard Parish 1868, Slocum 1910, Opelousas 1868... to name a few. There are still more. And land was stolen, people killed, and people's legacies were destroyed. And we have people in this country who speak about doing this again everyday. What do you all think January 6 was all about? America has a problem... a real problem. And if other countries sanctioned us for human right atrocities like we do to others, we rightfully have earned it. A better life is still out there for Black Americans. Get your escape plan ready. People in America have not evolved.

I came here for the film. Is there a link?

This was a major crime committed by an entire city!!

My grandfather & his family survived the massacre. He was just 6 years old at the time. Heres his testimony to the Tulsa Race commission about that (imgur.com/gallery/ZZ3crph), & an old newspaper clipping from 1928 (7yrs after the riot) featuring the local HS band. My great uncle has preserved it for almost 100 years.

Who was the black WW I vet in the show? Was he the topic of Tulsa Tribune articles fearmongering about training black soldiers for combat when the War was declared? When was the big Klan rally in Washington, DC? How did Mayor Brady react to that rally? Who had airplanes from which the homemade incendiary devices were thrown? How big was the Klan in Tulsa in ‘21? My mother was a white Catholic born on May 31, 1921, and had a cross burned in her front yard in Hominy (30 miles from Greenwood) a few years later.

I just learned about this from watching Tom Hanks in a short video bring this to people's attention

There are many who say that if you don't learn your history you're bound to repeat it. How many people noticed in this documentary how important a simple tool is called a gun AKA a firearm. And how detrimental it could have been to saving so many lives and businesses if they all had had more. Get away from the liberal idealism of anti-gun, and gun control. I find it ironic that the very party that depends on our vote the most is the ones that don't want us to be armed.

I always keep history by our ancestors in front of me, I’m keeping the Cross of Christ in front also.

This is the kind of community the GREAT!!!!! BOOKER T. WASHINGTON espoused the so-called uncle Tom.

Who is the MC? Maybe I am displacing my anger because my family is from Tulsa, and this is a very traumatic time for us, but I am disgusted that the host can't say Dick Rowland's name. He keeps calling him "the boy". WTF. He was arrested and detained... and only narrowly escaped...SMH

I'm having an argument with someone who said there's only proof of one plane, but i seriously doubt it.

I promise as a young American to visit the sights of this horrible massacre to pay my respects

Def gonna watch this doc

Yahawah bahasham Yahawashi shalach riyam wa inashyam wa ahbadyam wa haragyam wa mashapatyam al kal ahdawamyam wa gawayam wa ahyabyamnawa baqashah baqashah baqashah Yahawah bahasham Yahawashi thawadah ahman!

Did not learn about this in school... Sad...

What happened in Tulsa was nothing more than Ethnic Cleansing - American style!

It was a massacre and a holocaust I bet if you go to the nursing homes in Tulsa Oklahoma those same people that did this is still living in the nursing homes.they also had children and grandchildren that's still alive too, someone needs to find their families for restitution

Shy have black people never brought this up. I've never heard about it anywhere. I've had black friends at school, at work at church. I've never seen any books written on this. Why did this take place?

I truly believe some history need to stay in the past. Come together as a race So we can jump some of these obstacles we have in front of us Today . God bless all Races stay safe everybody🙏

“Truth Prevails!!!”