Here's more... Massacre is something that America is known for through out their history. In America history theirs over 24 different location of mass Massacre of the Native Americans. Also the 1871 Los Angeles China Town Massacre when the entire Chinese town was burn to the ground. Chinese bodies was pile up for sports between the Mexican and the white man of who can kill the most Chinese.
@UCv4sVvf21zqktD-i0dzG2VQ that's the Asians problem not black people's problem. Whatever wrongs were done to them if they want to sit quietly and accept it....has nothing to do with black people. There were wrongs done to them and they accepted monetary compensation. Black people NEVER. Please go somewhere with this ridiculous comment.
The Slocum Massacre of 1910, in East Texas. I am a descendant of my great-great grandfather who escaped. He left hundreds of acres and thriving farm behind. Yes, there are many more stories similar to Tulsa Rosewood, and others.
@@projectknowledge1950 I just saw that on the African diaspora news channel and I didn’t know about that one either it seems like there are more and more stories turning up. Also I am sorry and sad to hear about that. 😔
Another one is the Wilmington massacre. They tried to burn down the evidence but news articles were found a few years ago. My parents told me about it when we went to the beach there.
Yeap the racism is real no other country says anything bc they get passes to that’s why the nba supports China and Biden says nothing is going on with them
I think the descendant of those murderers should be made to pay restitution to the victims families. Just as those Nazis had to pay the Jews, and was punished when caught, even those caught while hiding in Brazil and other countries.
What pisses me off is the fact that this was omitted from the education system in California, where I was born and raised. Not one piece of this information was provided - it's sickening. By the way, I was born in 1963. It's unbelievable that we never heard of this.
I was born in 1956 I have just learned about this last year. And there are actual survival of that massacre. June 1 1921, and white America try to hide it and they actually do not want us to talk about it today. Now I Pray that The Family’s that lost their Love one do receive over do justice yes way over do justice😎
@@robertglasper4845 the oppressor stripped our ancestors of their culture, language, families and identity.....their agenda is to DESTROY US as though WE never existed.They have NOT stripped US of our DIGNITY...WE are a RESILLIANT PEOPLE...and still WE RISE. The oppressor has fed US his bad food...his false doctrine (s) of lies and deception from the PLANTATION (S), PULPIT to his schools of MISSEDUCATION. Wake up Black America WE must come together as A People get to working together for the GOOD of Our People. For hundreds of years to present date the oppressor has done NOTHING will DO NOTHING for the PROGRESS of OUR PEOPLE...WE must do that for ourselves. No marching, peaceful protesting will NOT, HAS NOT change anything for US...it all falls on def ears and cold hard hearts ♥.
My children graduated in 2012 and 2019. Their history books were so watered down that the word "slavery" was never used. In place of the word slave, they used "indentured servant." That really angered me. My children were taught the truth.
I'm from NYC & we too were not taught in school about the history in Tulsa, I was born in 73 and never heard it in school at all & it's very sad, frustrating to know that this was never taught in any school in the United States....if this happened in another country they would be speaking about it in the history books here in the states but since it was committed by white folks towards blacks they tried to erase it....never again!!! Blessings to all of you out there that have read this 🙏😇 much love & peace 🙏😇
I grew up in Tulsa I am here now born here lol so it's about my city in ok we rivial you got ok bombing I got this but in other states eyes we got both of these lol
I didn’t learn of this in school in OK during the 70’s. I only found out about it years later during my years of genealogy research. I asked my parents and only my father told me the whole tragic story.
WE know about it, THEY refuse to talk about it. They might not write about our history or acknowledge it but we pass it down by word of mouth because we need to know about it. We have to keep the convo going with our elders and our children in the same breath.
Wonderful your family is passing down Black History so many don't. It's an ugly painful reality that needs to be told and NOT ALLOWED to be swept under the rug, kept quiet or erased from history. It is time to tell ALL...it is time to STOP fearing what the OPPRESSOR (S) think or have to try to keep COVRED FROM US and the world to know. I deeply admire the the STRENGTH and COURAGE Emmit Tills mother had to show the world what was done to her son at the hands of white suppremist. To this day justice has NEVER been served for the hate filled murder of Emmit Till. The DECIEVER who is responsible is still alive and NO charges of making a FALSE report has EVER been brought against her.
YES! Our family's version of America, the so called land of the free, is VERY different from the sanitized version taught in schools and spread by the media. My grandparents had stories that would make the hair stand up on your neck, my grandmother's best friend actually participated in the Montgomery bus boycott. We created our own happiness in a nation that was and still is hostile to us. That flag doesn't mean to us what it means to others. You see the massive effort to quash the 1619 project? They don't want history from our point of view...only theirs matter
This young generation don’t care about it, shoot the generation before this one don’t even care about it. Irresponsible of black parents to not teach the kids about our history.
My family was in the Rosewood massacre and they got on the train and came to Newberry Fl and my cousin who is 86 told me about the newberry 6 please look that up
@@lfresh1673 Um. There are “black Indians”... many.. many of them. Not all of us are from Africa. That’s yet another LIE that we’re being told. We need to start researching our own history instead of dependent upon “them”... our oppressors.
That woman should be honored as a National Hero, for sharing not just a personal nightmare but a national tragedy, & for reminding us all we still have a long way to go.
I just wish we trust and fear the Creator God more than fearing any man. For that is the goal of a coward racist and intimidators to create fear in you in order to silence you. The silence of the lambs. Fear not, be of good courage says the Lord God.
Absolutely, when one is awakened we are awaken. nahhhhhh I'm so confused why if we are hated for the tone of our skin... why THEY STOLE EVERYTHING FROM US PPL OF A BEAUTIFUL SKIN TONE if THEY HATED/DISLIKE ETC.... ijs like Dayumn anyway I don't know anyone (US) who is RACIST&don't care about HUMANITY. I realize yrs ago itsacoldworld bundle tf up moving along"WHERESOURREPARATIONS" PERIOD!! IDGAF MY ANCESTORS BUILT AMERICA, BET MY 3 GRANDS KNOW TRUTH. pardon me for the long paragraph, when you learn abt why&know #facts I literally CRIES bc why this Reality isn't in HISTORY BOOKS OR MENTIONED IN SCHOOL but we had to pass 7 history classes to graduate HS. I learned my REAL HISTORY from my ELDERS..
Man what other massacres are they hiding? How many more? What else has this country lied about and tried to keep secret? Obviously this country still hasn’t learned a goddamn thing and it will never change.
They tried to erase a whole nation of people globally. But there will be a resurgence and it will all come to light and it will be dealt with . God is always in control! 1000 years is 24H for God and Vengeance is HIS.
@@dudefromkc6182 if that's the case everyones haunted lol everyones ancestors at different points were conquerors, pillaged towns, wiped out tribes of our close relatives like the denisovans neanderthals etc,
No it wasn’t people keep saying the government did it but it was actually some regular people who blew it up an if it was up to me they would be publicly hanged or burned for killing innocent people trying to make a living in their country.
@@ciaspecialactivitiesdivisi5867 It was committed by the American government.. the government gave airplanes and bombs to the KKK. Wypipo in general did this
@@methsmokingneanderthaltrai5309 show me proof that is not plausible because it was a homemade bomb and I watched the witness statement and they did not see or say anything about aircraft flying over them
@@ciaspecialactivitiesdivisi5867 I'm not gonna argue with u bro.. it's a HISTORICAL FACT that the American government provided airplanes and bombs to the KKK. Do ur OWN research. U white supremacists will be denying reality until the cows come home 🙄
I think it was covered up, but I think the plane(s?) was privately owned. I suspect Brady was in the Klan, and the plane was owned by a fellow Klansman, and many of the citizens “deputized” were Klansmen. When was the big Washington Klan march in robes? Around the same time. When was the great argument over training Black soldiers for combat in WW I? Why was there no official body count? Why didn’t the prosperous businessmen have insurance? What was done with the claims? There is much to uncover.
I only found out about it from the HBO The Watchmen and I thought it was just a fictional part of the storyline. Then I looked it up and realized that I had had been hoodwinked and bamboozled my whole life!
@Steven Allen it is not in the history book well not the books in Tx. I learned about it with my sister about 7 years ago. Rosewood isn’t taught or the bombing of Move in Pa I believe.
The American news media has been controlled for well over a hundred years!!!! This cover-up is why!!!! Springfield, Ill., Wilmington, NC, Los Angeles, CA,. are but a few!!!! We are told only what 'they' want us to know!!!!
They did it in Wilmington, NC in 1898. They have parks and buildings on the campus bearing perpetrators and racist leadership from that time. Check it out.
Message to White Conservatives: It's kind of hard for poor Black Americans to "pick themselves up by their bootstraps" when your actions (be it a century ago, a few decades ago, or even today) like burning down their churches and businesses keep them from achieving economic equality/stability.
Message to idiots named Jesse: Democrats states made up the confederacy. Democrats started the Klan. It was the first Republican president that freed the slaves. Maybe learn history?
@@InfinityEightplus well conservatives started the Klan and Liberals freed the slaves. Plus there is growth in society and it seems like you only focus on the past. We learn from the past and move on
Agreed. They just DON'T get it or rather DON'T WANT to get it. Simply put, they don't care! You cannot simply ignore something like this, NEVER acknowledge it, NOR apologize and expect it to disappear. History will NEVER be erased. It may be buried or pushed aside momentarily, but will ALWAYS resurface!
I was born and raised there till I was 7 went to schools heard nothing, nothing that says its all right there!! Its not right so many people killed mass grave's on more grave's.. Tulsa is still one of the most racist city to date.. Just saying from what ive seen racism still going strong
I'm from Tulsa. I was never taught anything about this in school. Only reason I knew about it was because I lived in Greenwood. I had heard the stories about the church being burned down and the house across the street was rebuilt after the fires etc... its so sad that Ok covered this up. They treated the black folks and Native American folks so horribly. Its shameful. Maybe that is why they covered it up... they are ashamed. As they should be.
Stephen, I get your point but let's remember that filming of the survivors started as early as 1978 when there was plans to make a feature film. 60 Minutes reported it in 1999. PBS did a documentary as part of "The American Experience" in 1993. "Eyes on The Prize" had a workbook that covered Greenwood as a companion piece to the series Survivors were interviewed for all of these. Many of those researchers are alive. The U.S. Census records will help and so will college admission records since Greenwood had a higher than proportional number of students who pursued higher education. There are families that remained near Greenwood that tried to rebuild but were blocked due to re-zoning laws and an uphill battle that led to building the Tulsa Union Depot in 1931 and an industrial park on the properties of the displaced residents. My point is that it's not hard to prove who lived there and who their descendants are - Henry Louis Gates regularly demonstrates that. The uphill battle is connected to the other side of the story: the families of the people who burned Greenwood down and profited off of it. They proudly showed off the murders in their photos and shared them across the country on postcards; they spitted their venomous hate in newspapers; they reneged on paying a promised near $2 million to restore Greenwood; they created legal barriers to block the Greenwood residents out of every aspect of the oil industry including driving oil trucks; and they prosper today saying " I had nothing to do with that". In reality, they are the ones who have maintained hiding truths, perpetuating lies, fighting lesson plans in school curricula, and searching for weaselly symbolic gestures to stop people from identifying them ( street naming ceremonies, apologies, commemorative paintings, donations to scholarships, etc.) - they are 100 years too late.
If they allowed the truth to be told, it would contradict their insistence that we choose not to prosper. That the reason we have so little is because too many of us refuse to "pull ourselves up by the bootstraps and make something of ourselves." The truth is any time they saw us starting to claim our place and grow our seeds, they tore us down. Trust that this was not the only time. They don't want the history told because they don't want to face the shame of their families.
They want it to stay buried with those beautiful people. Stop cloaking with the enemy. Stop begging for a seat at the table. Tell the story and forget what the governor and mayor has to say. This isn't about guilt. It's a hidden truth and the evil cave freaks who carried out this atrocitie and many others.
Governor can't and won't stop me from educating my grandchildren. They've been told by me a lot that has been deliberately left out of history books. White written books. They know the pledge of allegiance and the national anthem is racist. No one can stop the awakening
Old people from 30 miles north of Tulsa, have told me that ammo was free @ "white" hardware stores. NO LIE.😠😈 THANK YOU for reporting on Oklahoma "government. 💙
Viola Fletcher teaches the meaning of strength, faith, and courage. We are more than the color of our skin, and these atrocities must be known so there can be justice. Without justice for all the people we can never move forward. Thank you for speaking about this, and shining a light so we are not doomed to the darkness of ignorance.
Tulsa Massacre Survivors: We just want the story to be told truthfully and accurately. We would also like to be compensated because we’ve lived our whole lives poor, unable to recover due to what was destroyed and stolen from our families! Them: How about we don’t do that and just build you a new historical museum to pacify you and make us feel less guilty about what was done to y’all.
I had nothing to do with it why should I have to pay to pay for that. My family is Cherokee I want reparations for what the government did to my people
You too! I'm Choctaw and I only learned that a few years ago. But I lived in Yukon near the Trail of Tears plaque and I definitely felt the pain even before I learned that my ancestors are part of that history. The body knows before the head
Your worried about feeling guilty while people lost loved ones. Your worried about your feeling even though they were the ones who didn't get to say good bye to their murdered love ones! People are worried about the feeling of the people who committed the horrendous crimes against American Citizens!? Wtf?... America
It was more than that!!! Those same 35 city blocks would’ve expanded to all 50 states and that’s what they didn’t want to happen…this wasn’t just a racial hate group, this was federal and systematic…
According to the aged-old phrase..... "Those who ignore the past, are doomed to repeat it", maybe that is why the Governor doesn't want this taught. Seems like he might be interested in repeating that past. DISGUSTING
@@marseillesvieux2987 I am undecided on the issue of reparations for descendants of slavery. I'm just going to leave that alone for now. However, the descendants of those who are massacred in Tulsa were robbed of the wealth of their successful ancestors, and they are only one or two generations removed from that wealth. Consider that this area of Tulsa was considered Black Wall Street and the businesses and homes and land were stolen from them when white people just got angry that blacks were successful, and killed them and burned city blocks to the ground. I do believe that they should be compensated for that act of domestic terrorism, much like the families of the victims of 9/11 were.
Worried about making a "certain group of people feel guilty"? How about a certain group of people denied their lives, wealth, or property to protect your lies, murder and robbery???
I'm 25 years old and the first I heard of this was last year, age 24, and it was a coworker that was kind enough to enlighten me about black wall street, answer questions, and pointed me in the right direction for research. The fact that this is just now being discussed is repulsive. Thank God for Mrs. Viola and other Survivors being willing and able to shed light on our dark past. Until you EXPOSE the injustices they CANNOT be changed for those living today! History is doomed to repeat itself unless the right lessons are gained.
It started out when a black man was accused of sexually molesting a white woman in an elevator. He was arrested and taking to the courthouse. A white mob descended on the courthouse demanding he be brought out to Lynch him. Yes there were racial tensions I am not saying that was right I'm just pointing out the facts the fact that liberals and Democrats don't want you to see. A group of armed black marks on the courthouse and fired on the white mob. They actually got in the building that were eventually repelled and pushed back to Greenwood where they kept biting and it led to a shootout and they lost. Yes they lost but they started it let's bring the truth at once and for all let's drop this narrative that black people are all victims in all whites are racist. If you doubt me go to the Tulsa World archives go to the courthouse look at the record go to the police records you will find the proof that this is what actually happened but no one wants to truth to do they anymore
This is one of the reasons why schools are teaching or trying to teach critical race history or something to that effect.. all the crap we were taught in history never took into account all the players in the history of our country... what is really sad is this bullshit is still happening to this day.. and no matter how those try and deny it all this will finally be dealt with and hopefully change things for the better.. oh BTW I am a white male who wants to see all the racism end once and for all..
Spot on, Christopher! Whenever I hear, in any country, that something is not allowed to be taught in schools, I know supremacy and authoritarianism is behind it. Whenever they don't want us to know something... there's a reason.
There should be no issue with reparations that needs to be given to the families right away. This makes me so sad I don’t know why I just watch this in the morning like this I can’t imagine
The thing that a lot of people need to acknowledge is that Tulsa wasn't the only instance of something like this happening. There are many other examples of things like this happening that were never taught in schools.
There were many race massacres in the United States against Black people. My Grandfather lost his mom when he was 5; she was killed in the 1917 East St. Louis race massacre. My Great Grandmother was 24.
So heartbreaking...imagine what is hidden from us...keep digging y'all...why werent we taught and informed about this...we have to do better world WE HAVE TOO
If this can be hidden who else knows what else HAS been hidden. Every time my ancestors tried to become successful it was stolen from them. This isn’t about living in poverty by choice, this is about being forced to reside on Square 0 for centuries.
As a black business owner in Texas who's father was a business owner, I've know about Black Wall Street my entire life. I'm very proud of the fact that my father instilled in me at an early age to judge people as individuals, not as a race. He would always say "You never know where your blessings will come from, so remain approachable. Growing up I wasn't allowed to make racial slurs. When I walk into a room, I hold my head high because even though I'm not rich or well off I pride myself as a Business Owner and this mind set has kept me out of a lot of trouble. Business is not always about cash flow, sometimes it involves trade and building life long friendships among all people. The burning of Black Wall Street has destroyed and set-back 6 generations of racial healing and bonding among all Americans. This is just a tiny scratch on the surface.
We need to share this with our friends, family , co workers, acquaintances etc... to keep this at the fore front this history needs to be known by all American citizens. I'm not surprised the reason why it's not talked about its because the racist men in power at that time decided to white out that event in history so people don't know about it.
There must be other events like this that have been omitted from the history we were taught. I know of the Ax handle riot. How many more? Blacks might be aware of these events from family history, but guaranteed most of us white folks never heard of these stories. Hopefully more films will educate us all.
Massacre is something that America is known for through out their history. In America history theirs over 24 different location of mass Massacre of the Native Americans. Also the 1871 Los Angeles China Town Massacre when the entire Chinese town was burn to the ground. Chinese bodies was pile up for sports between the Mexican and the white man of who can kill the most Chinese.
I have never learned about the Tulsa Race Massacre in school, and I go to school in OK. If I never educated myself about the Tulsa Race Massacre I would never know. I’m a freshman and it still has never been mentioned in my history class.
Massacre is something that America is known for through out their history. In America history theirs over 24 different location of mass Massacre of the Native Americans. Also the 1871 Los Angeles China Town Massacre when the entire Chinese town was burn to the ground. Chinese bodies was pile up for sports between the Mexican and the white man of who can kill the most Chinese.
I’m 23 and I’m barely knowing about this history. This is truly upsetting. May all those victims Rest In Peace. My heart is broken. Those people worked hard and were successful. And they we’re robbed from it. They deserve the money that they lost.
Thank you. I was born in Oklahoma and still have family there. I only recently learned of the atrocities that occurred at Greenwood. Everyone needs to hear this story, difficult as it is to do so.
About 5 years ago while in grad school I asked my friend if he knows the history on Tulsa, which he didn't. Asked him about Sadam Hussein, he knew every detail on the murders he was accused of. This smart, grad student who is black doesn't know an important part of black history but knows a diluted history of Iraq.
Listen to the words that they use, like "neighborhood...." This happen to a "Community," not a neighborhood. One of the wealthiest communities in the U.S at that time.. Just to inform you all this guy is a Nigerian, and there is nothing wrong with that, but when it comes to stories like these, we the Descendants should be telling our own stories. Would they have an Asian telling us stories of the holocaust, or an African American telling us stories about Herashama, I think not. 🤔
Many black house holds know this story. Glad this was brought too light as this amongst many stories has been a source of fear that just living is not accepted amongst some you share a country with.
@@Sb-sz3cn you must learn from the past in order to make a better future. I imagine these people in Greenwood were trying to forget the past and make something of themselves for a better future but that was stripped from them. Remembering this would not be living in the past that would be willful ignorance. History that’s ignored is bound to be repeated fool.
Any other culture and they wouldn't be asking "IF" there should be reparations, they'd be asking how much but it's because America knows the Most High has them on His list, as He sits back and laughs at how KNOWINGLY foolish this country has been in the treatment of his children
I have a question. How come there are evidence of bodies being buried at 15th and Peoria where are the black people were shot and killed in that is nowhere near the Greenwood District what were they doing there if whites attacked them in their homes how come you don't talk about this
And this is just the one we have evidence for, who knows where else this happened. There were repercussions like this for being wealthy as a black community yet the argument “pick yourself up from your bootstraps “ is so prominent. So which is it? “Pick yourself up” or “You will not replace us”. Let’s be honest about these contradictions in American society for once.
They still send out the message, you will not replace us and Trump America is proof in the pudding. 🤔🤨. But JEHOVAH tired of the greed, the pride, the fake, the oppression, the overlooked SIN in America. I thought it says in the White Evangelicals bible, " Thou shall not kill, steal or Destroy. " oh ok. I thought that's what it said. The same Bible they claim they reading? Or am I delusional. 🤔
Democrats do all the time they don't dare talk about it in back Obama came out and apologize to the Arab world. We have to remind people about the attacks of 911 people don't want to hear it
People don't need to be "reminded" of "9-11" it's plastered everywhere around that time of year. People DO need to be told, taught about and "reminded" of the horrific autrocities inflicted upon Black and Brown People. People remember, talk about and memoralize every thing except the crimes...GENOCIDE against the African and Native American.
This rips my heart out. I grew up hours away.. I didn't know, and that's truly not ok. Of course the families should be compensated!!! This didn't happen THAT long ago, and it was covered up!!
I'm a Tulsa native, and learned about this when I was in the 6th grade and the crazy part is the only reason why is because of ONE line that just so happened to be in a history book. When I asked my teacher about it, she confirmed it was true but wouldn't tell me more than that. I only found out more when I started asking around in my black community, and by looking at the pictures on the wall at Westview Clinic, a black owned clinic that blew up some of the pictures that survived and framed them. They are still there till this day and I would always study them when I went up there. That is how buried this story was from the world.
This is what I'm talking about the fact that we black people keep acting like life is so great in these racist European country especially america and let's face facts we didn't forget we just never talk about it because of fear
As a 4th grade teacher, I tell this story and know other teachers who do too. There are children's books that do an excellent job relating the story as well. One is titled, "Unspeakable" and is written by Carole Boston Weatherford and can be easily be purchased online.
I can't really speak for every child that went to that school, but if they sent me to that school for something I didn't do, then it's a high probability that others were sent to the school for the same reason (something they didn't do).
Yah will judge the demons that did this along with there descendants those poor souls killed were Israelites the descendants of Abraham Issac and Jacob. What did Yah say to Abraham? I will bless those that bless you and curse those that curse you.
It's like she is both speaking of PTSD and experiencing the massacre AND ALSO SAYING she literally still witnessing these sights and sounds in 2021. It's like Holocaust survivers witnessing the Holocaust again in their lifetime. All due respect and also wow.
I never knew of this horrible act of terrorism until one day watching HBOMax and two shows on there had a recreation of the event. I thought it had to be real if two shows had the same event. Sure enough after googling it it was real. Hopefully it will be told in the future and not forgotten again.
