Uncovering the Greenwood Massacre, nearly a century later

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3 жыл бұрын

In 1921, a thriving black neighborhood in Tulsa, Oklahoma, burned, leaving hundreds dead. Scott Pelley reports.
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@dianerusselllive 3 жыл бұрын

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!

@MrJorgito89 3 жыл бұрын

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

@mjt2231 3 жыл бұрын

@RudeBoyRebel frm MISSISSIPPI who is "they"?

@lastmanstanding6675 3 жыл бұрын

Just one of many racial massacre that occurred in this country. That you won't see in an America history book.

@kalillita 3 жыл бұрын

I'm not even from the States and I know this.....almost 10 years ago I watch a little segment or something here in KZfaq 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...

@ryb3198 3 жыл бұрын

Hi There American history is very Eurocentric

@triciawilliams1093 3 жыл бұрын

I’m starting to believe that KZfaq is the best college ever I have learn far more important history information on KZfaq than the damn school I have ever attended in this life time of mine.

@ro3snowman 3 жыл бұрын

School is not for education. It’s for INDOCTRINATION.

@benjaminsmith2287 3 жыл бұрын

It can be. For sure.

@threetreasures7698 Жыл бұрын

@@ro3snowman yeah, it is.

@djdigital3806 Жыл бұрын

KZfaq #1

@krisj827 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you 60 minutes for sharing this horrific story. I would have never have heard about this atrocity until now.

@robertpowers1045 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@thisisntsergio1352 3 жыл бұрын

I also would've never known about this story if 60 minutes didn't report it.

@gracealexander3160 2 жыл бұрын

@@robertpowers1045 60 Minutes covered this in 1999 (kzfaq.info/get/bejne/e82Fpdae36yllGg.html).

@MssEllefry 2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@no_one_u_know4287 2 жыл бұрын

@@robertpowers1045 I’m sorry I gotta tell you this but no was even thinking about Trump here

@thetactician1060 3 жыл бұрын

America, your skirt is being lifted. Once the world finds out the WHOLE truth, you're in big trouble.

@Noelle2024 3 жыл бұрын

Well said👍👍👍

@kimroberts905 3 жыл бұрын

True

@jaramillolafuente 3 жыл бұрын

The world already knows. The US has caused so much pain to MANY countries in the world

@sparkymarkm322 3 жыл бұрын

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”

@Servant_of_TMH 3 жыл бұрын

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?”

@marypritchett1267 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@dionnedunsmore9996 Жыл бұрын

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

@commonsense571 3 жыл бұрын

I’ve learned nothing about American black history. Makes me feel stupid and angry

@ReflectNews 3 жыл бұрын

This is exactly how I felt watching this segment.

@coiledbydesign1270 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@alohadave13 3 жыл бұрын

same here, tragic isn't it...

@vic5015 3 жыл бұрын

The powers that be don't want people to know about this.

@monoclehikes68 3 жыл бұрын

I live in Tulsa and this was tighten my Oklahoma history class

@phampton16 8 ай бұрын

This story really needs to be shown and put in all history books .

@yvonneplant9434 4 ай бұрын

The right trying to ban books is part of trying to erase this history.

@Nualchemist 3 жыл бұрын

Spike Lee should make a film about this incident.

@kingsean1500 3 жыл бұрын

Russell Westbrook is making a documentary in this.

@Nualchemist 3 жыл бұрын

@@kingsean1500 I'd like to see that when it's done :)

@mrv9187 3 жыл бұрын

But with a Get Out spin

@vic5015 3 жыл бұрын

@@mrv9187 doesn't need the spin. It's already a horrifying story.

@fathersun5765 3 жыл бұрын

It was a big part of the Watchmen tv show that was on HBO

@joanbowden7634 3 жыл бұрын

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?

@will1hago66 11 ай бұрын

Omg if you did any study whatsoever Jim Crow era you’d have heard this. Ever heard of the Occoee massacre?

@magnusgranskau7487 2 ай бұрын

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

@coiledbydesign1270 3 жыл бұрын

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!

@seanwoods7726 3 жыл бұрын

Same here🖐🏾 We can never trust the Govt to teach u real history, we gotta research ourself🇱🇷

@lovelyrich54 3 жыл бұрын

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🙌

@JohnRidersoldoutforjesus 2 жыл бұрын

And you can't see the agenda behind it???

@rondavid7413 2 жыл бұрын

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

@Tonyconner74 Жыл бұрын

What city & what school told you that? I believe you because it was never taught at my high school Hamilton High in Los Angeles....

@johnhoward3279 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you 60 MInutes for making this available here. This needs to be in the history books.

@henryhill1876 Жыл бұрын

Fo sho

@cleowilson6532 Жыл бұрын

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.

@spohl76 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@darkpassenger65 3 жыл бұрын

Imagine going to war to fight for your country's freedom only to return home and be treated this way.

@thefpvlife7785 3 жыл бұрын

I'm certain there are many more stories like this throughout America decades before.

@lizstromsnesdolz629 3 жыл бұрын

There are many other BURNINGS AND lynchings and MASSACRES, just Google it..hatred for blacks and immigrants in America is an ugly history

@LadyAtheOnly Жыл бұрын

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 KZfaq commenter. *=Discovered while researching this list. 🤦🏾‍♀️

@postscript5549 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for educating me. I knew nothing about Greenwood. This is an EXTREMELY sad and horrifying story. I cried.

@smithblack100 Жыл бұрын

There are dozens of greenwoods. Keep searching

@rosalyn7762 7 ай бұрын

Rosewood.

@Faicon9493 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@RichWeigel 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@lizstromsnesdolz629 3 жыл бұрын

A big cover up followed

@sarahflanagan9345 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@THT01 3 жыл бұрын

I have said it before, it continues to surprise me that the human race has gone on as long as it has.

@karent9134 3 жыл бұрын

If this massacre doesn’t deserve financial reparations nothing does. If relatives can be found, the State of Oklahoma needs to pay up.

@Faicon9493 3 жыл бұрын

Karen Taylor Absolutely!

@tashnaw 3 жыл бұрын

They tried but they were denied

@Sheshe661972 3 жыл бұрын

@@tashnaw 😔

@BjGross1 3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely not. Tax payer money should not be used for reparations. White people today are not responsible for atrocities 100 years ago.

@n.king15 3 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@fourthgirl 3 жыл бұрын

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!

@juliansearcie1758 3 жыл бұрын

demonic evil

@nubian45 3 жыл бұрын

Was heartbreaking to see that picture

@farmgirl2cr 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@tresurb6838 3 жыл бұрын

I’m in my 20s and just learning about this. They never spoke of this massacre in school.

@HungerSTR1KE 4 ай бұрын

Thank you for producing this. It's important to know our real history.

@AviBel333 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@SteveMoring 3 жыл бұрын

The history of this country is missing.

@michaeld.williamsiii9026 3 жыл бұрын

Sadly yes and swept under the rug and floor ignorantly....💔

@LadyAtheOnly Жыл бұрын

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 KZfaq commenter. *=Discovered while researching this list. 🤦🏾‍♀️

@retsub3 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@GEVINCHYGAMEZ 3 жыл бұрын

No its hard to accept it because you're the "devil"

@8719Mark 3 жыл бұрын

Great you found it.keep on researching Steve X :)

@bossteamentertainment6836 3 жыл бұрын

@@GEVINCHYGAMEZ Looks like you're the devil with this prejudice attitude. And YOU of all people should know better. Knock it off.

@playablue 2 жыл бұрын

@@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

@tritiumeye Жыл бұрын

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.

@tommyt1971 Жыл бұрын

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.

@Josh-hp3eb 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@avalonstudio2753 10 ай бұрын

Because they are sitting on the properties of the people they killed

@shayvidatv 10 ай бұрын

Omg, I can't believe that I'm just now learning about this horrible event.

@susanjones1761 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@chevyboyatl4097 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah right

@southphillyexplorer 3 жыл бұрын

Apologize for what? You didn't do anything. Worry about your friends and family. That's all you have to do

@bossteamentertainment6836 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@oustaz1 3 жыл бұрын

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

@florastewart7957 3 жыл бұрын

Now you understand black people are asking for fair policing

@MissMarinaCapri 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@1990Bruingirl 3 жыл бұрын

It definitely happened. No “ifs”about it. And it happened to other black communities too.

@kittsmohamud 3 жыл бұрын

It’s still happening in the form of modern day slavery.Try the prison system,the systemic racism.What do you mean?

@A_Little_Shelf_Absorbed 3 жыл бұрын

The Greenwood Cultural Center

@yourturn777 3 жыл бұрын

@@A_Little_Shelf_Absorbed ✊

@n.king15 3 жыл бұрын

A museum does nothing to help families destroyed by this act of terrorism. Descendants need to be compensated.

@LadyAtheOnly Жыл бұрын

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 KZfaq commenter. *=Discovered while researching this list. 🤦🏾‍♀️

@vic5015 3 жыл бұрын

Who the F "disliked" this? Unless they did it to show disapproval of what happened, WTF is wrong with those people?

@bassk9808 Жыл бұрын

This is why we MUST write our own stories.

@Jin420 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@kelvinsarver6240 Жыл бұрын

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.

@pauldefleuriot196 2 жыл бұрын

This should be exposed internationally

@MrCarlonb 2 жыл бұрын

World Wide

@tobinbh3940 Жыл бұрын

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...

@magnusgranskau7487 2 ай бұрын

its not hidden by anything but the tides of time. its written down and free to find for those who searches for it

@chriscabcabin557 3 жыл бұрын

Fox News would have reported that the boy in the elevator had weed in his system. Different eras same sh*t.

@buckeyewill2166 3 жыл бұрын

Chris Cabcabin ...Truth is painful, right Brothaman?????

@rose6610 Жыл бұрын

what in the literal f are you talking about?

@suegraue1713 3 жыл бұрын

my new expression for most things happening today is "unbelievable" because i am at a loss for words and overwhelmed with grief

@luxste 3 жыл бұрын

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?

@florastewart7957 3 жыл бұрын

The Republicans are actively trying to stop education on these issues. Vote them out

@jaowashingtune8729 3 жыл бұрын

always amazed when I discover history I never heard about.

@cleowilson6532 Жыл бұрын

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.

@totalpublicexposuret.v.cha2874 3 жыл бұрын

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

@barbarawilliams5378 Жыл бұрын

AMEN AMEN SO TRUE I HATE THE WORLD TODAY 😠😡🤬

@ccroberts2640 3 жыл бұрын

Praying for justice in Tulsa🙏🙏 Prayers from NZ❣

@johnmcnulty4425 3 жыл бұрын

You don't hear about massacres against Native Americans either..

@imsavor 3 жыл бұрын

I heard plenty when I was in school. But there's much more tbh

@BifronsCandle 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@BifronsCandle 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@kimberleerobinson4951 Жыл бұрын

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.

@ERYKJACKNIFE 10 ай бұрын

Good for you guys 60 minutes. This is what being a good person is about. I’m amazed that know one knows about this.

@salentino 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@LoganTroxell 3 жыл бұрын

I grew up in Tulsa and never heard about it until adulthood.

@EvaAnika 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@slypear 3 жыл бұрын

Man, this is tragic~ I grew up in Wichita and was never taught this horrific episode in American History class.

@TheeDavidDee 3 жыл бұрын

And this is where Trump wants to have his next rally. Let that sink in.

@RichWeigel 3 жыл бұрын

@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.

@awoehler 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@-cgranty2954 3 жыл бұрын

What if he makes a decent speech, since he's not really a racist. Lol

@Liz-ic6jb 3 жыл бұрын

Who cares where Trump has his rally. It really doesn't matter.

@martinhumble 3 жыл бұрын

@@Liz-ic6jb It does. To his cult racist followers. Sadly

@tonillanes1505 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@mannymoseley4005 8 ай бұрын

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.

@debrac1610 10 ай бұрын

😢😮Wow, this is horrible beyond comprehension

@leti.s.6253 3 жыл бұрын

Maybe “Tomb of the Lost Souls”?? I’m imagining a beautiful memorial! I hope it comes to pass during my lifetime.

@jameslaupan6499 3 жыл бұрын

“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.

@roysones2087 3 жыл бұрын

Agreed

@french2two 3 жыл бұрын

Plus ça change, plus ça reste le meme.

@ShmooyShmoo 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for turning on the comments.

@yourturn777 3 жыл бұрын

👀👂👃😈

@12TribesUnite 2 ай бұрын

So important to know! Thank you for this!

@jeremyashton5040 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@greatsol2444 2 жыл бұрын

No apology is necessary. REPARATIONS is all that is acceptable.

@nobodyspecial4702 2 жыл бұрын

@@greatsol2444 Sure, give money for something you had no connection to. That makes sense.

@JeantheSecond 2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@greatsol2444 Жыл бұрын

@@nobodyspecial4702 Who are you referring to that should give?

@justcallmebrian793 Жыл бұрын

@@greatsol2444 The descendants and few of the individuals that lived through it.

@elizsantos2000 3 жыл бұрын

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 !!!

@lylelookingbill6606 3 ай бұрын

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.

@srone 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@Bezzy911 Жыл бұрын

This is another reason CRT is needed. It is also why “they” are passing laws to block it.

@LadyAtheOnly Жыл бұрын

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 KZfaq commenter. *=Discovered while researching this list. 🤦🏾‍♀️

@theylied1776 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@kittsmohamud 3 жыл бұрын

Not anymore he said his “good”black friends asked him to reconsider.

@rapidfirerob4 3 жыл бұрын

@@kittsmohamud This is correct. He moved it to Saturday.

@TheBalterok 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@johngray6675 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@RichWeigel 3 жыл бұрын

@@kittsmohamud no unfortunately it is still being held in Tulsa he just moved the date from the 14th to the 20th.

@eurekasevenwave2297 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@angelaperry4603 Жыл бұрын

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.

@orangevanrad8654 10 ай бұрын

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.

@brendafegley3317 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@_MissANGIE Жыл бұрын

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.

@brandonbeard4019 3 жыл бұрын

I didn't find out about this until 2014 I believe. So disgusting....

@q-dawwg626 3 жыл бұрын

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!!!!

@wookiemomos 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@stefanosanastasi99 3 жыл бұрын

For anyone looking for more on this, VOX has made a great video about it. Totally worth watching!

@maggieholley3181 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@DrShonTV Жыл бұрын

Wow this is heart wrenching!!!

@shawnmendrek3544 10 ай бұрын

Thank you.

@Kelsee13 Жыл бұрын

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.

@sanelegazu8718 2 жыл бұрын

Little brother caring his sibling 🥺😭. But we have to be prepared because they will come again if we ever try to be united again

@passionateherbs8183 3 жыл бұрын

💔

@brianlewis6926 9 ай бұрын

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

@marcologo342 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@NavarreSkyyeRocks 3 жыл бұрын

I bet not one of them were arrested either

@sorennilsson9742 3 жыл бұрын

Racism has strong roots in white America.

@barefootprofessor3455 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@DD-rp2qr 2 жыл бұрын

Read “The Iceman Inheritance” Michael Anderson Bradley for your answer

@nobodyspecial4702 2 жыл бұрын

@@barefootprofessor3455 When you say whites are genocidal, that's you being a racist.

@rose6610 Жыл бұрын

and now black too thanks to blm.

@myronjefferson5424 3 жыл бұрын

This makes a person angry

@andremcclanahan4015 Жыл бұрын

What’s crazy is that our young men are now raising terror in our neighborhoods killing each other.

@darkestlight6784 3 жыл бұрын

Why no subtitles? You dont believe the deaf community needs to learn this?

@salentino 3 жыл бұрын

KZfaq has a function for subtitles

@ryb3198 3 жыл бұрын

You’ve heard of closed captioning right?? It’s on your tv and also on KZfaq. The deaf community is well aware of this. Quit trolling

@darkestlight6784 3 жыл бұрын

@@salentino i knowww, its not provided in this vid. Zero cc option.

@LaKashiaYNoel 3 жыл бұрын

Lord have mercy.... I’m 41 and never heard about this and this seems planned out

@MayberryAIArt 9 ай бұрын

Never forget our history

@lovekikitoo 7 ай бұрын

My anger about this makes me never forget and tell others and inform the next generation 👍❤️

@Mrpalomino88 3 жыл бұрын

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!

@faba7381 3 жыл бұрын

I'M SPEECHLESS

@LadyAtheOnly Жыл бұрын

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 KZfaq commenter. *=Discovered while researching this list. 🤦🏾‍♀️

@samansiddiquie1902 8 ай бұрын

Why isn’t anyone talking about reparations and justice ?

@GodzWarriah Жыл бұрын

This wasn't the only massacre

@twstf8905 3 жыл бұрын

Disgusting. Even more so because I've somehow NEVER heard about this happening before, for whatever reason. I'm shocked but I'm hardly surprised.

@michaelbrown3063 11 ай бұрын

It's Amazing to know About your history

@LaaLas-hw1cg 11 ай бұрын

Your lies

@WhatTheKorea 3 жыл бұрын

Wow!

@woodsoncircle 3 жыл бұрын

This is such an incredible story. My aunt/uncle have lived in Broken Arrow (suburb of Tulsa) over 40 years now and not once have they told this story. R.I.P. to all of those who had to endure such a tragic massacre. The story is very similar to Rosewood.

@gracealexander3160 2 жыл бұрын

Agreed! So tragic. My husband graduated from BA 1989 and learned about it in school. He also remembers a local TV channel airing a short information piece about it. In 1999 60 Minutes also aired an episode with several interviews with survivors. (kzfaq.info/get/bejne/e82Fpdae36yllGg.html) I use this video as part of my unit on the event (for my freshman Oklahoma History course). I realize that some teachers may skip or breeze over this, which I can't abide. But I wanted to assure you that many of us do make this a priority in our lessons. It's so very important.

@barbarawilliams5378 Жыл бұрын

I'M 58YRS I NEVER HEARD THIS BEFORE IN MY LIFE THIS HAVE BEEN GOING ON FROM THE BEGINNING OF TIME AND STILL IS WHAT ARE THEY GOING TO SAY TO GOD HE HAVE THE LAST SAY WAS THE WORLD SUPPOSE TO HAPPEN THIS WAY FOR US BLACK PEOPLE WHY I'M 58 YEARS OLD I HAVE GRAND AND GREAT GRAND THIS IS SAD AND A SHAME AND THEY STILL KILLING US TODAY THEY GOING TO HAVE TO FACE GOD WHEN THAT TIME COME 😢😢‼️

@chipsthedog1 3 жыл бұрын

I never got taught this in school I heard about it from listening to Akala fire in the booth how sad is it when hip hop is teaching me more than school

@ericnixon3616 2 жыл бұрын

What would have been if this event never happened? It appears Greenwood was the definition of a model community. It is monumental loss for the entire country.