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In order to celebrate the 102 year anniversary of the Tulsa Race Riots, I am releasing my 3 part series on the topic and revealing the truth about what really happened on that day.
This is part 1. Part 2 and 3 are below in the thread.
#TulsaMassacre #TulsaRaceMassacre
This is part 1. Part 2 and 3 are below in the thread.
#TulsaMassacre #TulsaRaceMassacre
Part 2 is here, it is fire. Watch it and learn more.
And here is part 3 the finale and conclusion to this saga of exposing the lies and propaganda surrounding this case.
Il y a peu, j'ai fais un thread sur comment des quartiers entiers totalement piétons et des communautés denses et riches ont été rasées aux EU au profit de grand boulevards, autoroutes etc.
La plus violente de ces histoires est celle de Tulsa.
Vous trouverez des thread très complets et bien mieux expliqués que je ne pourrais le faire. Je vous en mets ici, si vous voulez vous informez en détails sur les faits.
101 years ago, a White mob fueled by hate, looted and destroyed nearly 40 square blocks of the Greenwood district in Tulsa, known as the #BlackWallStreet.
We must never forget the hundreds of lives and livelihoods that were lost during the Tulsa-Greenwood Race Massacre of 1921.
We must never forget the hundreds of lives and livelihoods that were lost during the Tulsa-Greenwood Race Massacre of 1921.
Last year, @HouseJudiciary held a hearing to commemorate the Tulsa-Greenwood Race Massacre and the Committee heard from some of the last remaining survivors.
Mother Viola Fletcher, now 108, described the terror she experienced on that night.
Mother Viola Fletcher, now 108, described the terror she experienced on that night.
Hughes Van Ellis, now 101, explained how the Tulsa Race Massacre isn't just a footnote in the history books, but something the survivors and their decedents live with every day.
I've written a good bit over the years about the #TulsaRaceMassacre, as I (like so many of us) have finally started to learn more about what was sadly not at all a singular event, but certainly an extreme example of our ubiquitous history of racial terrorism. Here's a few:
My first such focused piece was for @werehist in 2015. I didn't know nearly enough about the massacre & its contexts yet, but did have the chance to share my single favorite quote from American lit as part of framing such an event.
werehistory.org/tulsa-riots/
werehistory.org/tulsa-riots/
Last year for the massacre's centennial I wrote for my @SatEvePost Considering History column on some of the many layers I've been able to learn & that we all need to engage.
saturdayeveningpost.com/2021/01/consid…
saturdayeveningpost.com/2021/01/consid…
Between May 31 and June 1, 1921, white mobs destroyed more than 1,000 homes and businesses in Greenwood forcing Black families like Dr. Olivia J. Hookers' to relocate to safer territory.
They set fire to schools, churches, libraries, and movie theaters, and leveled entire city blocks.
The late Dr. Olivia J. Hooker, who was only six years old at the time, witnessed them tear down items in her home, as well as the complete destruction of her father’s clothing business.
They later moved to Topeka, Kansas to start anew.
They later moved to Topeka, Kansas to start anew.
Ok, can my fellow #Millennials collectively admit that the American School system FAILED US ALL by not teaching us about the #TulsaRaceMassacre when we were coming up?
It's really messed up.
It's really messed up.
I had to learn about Tulsa on my own, in my late 20s--despite attending a well-funded Public School system 👀
...Then there's the additional 11 years of Post-Graduate Education during which I never heard a peep about Tulsa 👀
...Then there's the additional 11 years of Post-Graduate Education during which I never heard a peep about Tulsa 👀
That's really bad.
Why? Because we LEGITIMATELY cannot have a coherent conversation about the current state of race relations in America if you do not understand what happened at Tulsa.
...It's a critical piece of the picture.
Why? Because we LEGITIMATELY cannot have a coherent conversation about the current state of race relations in America if you do not understand what happened at Tulsa.
...It's a critical piece of the picture.
This is my love letter to #Tulsa;
Dear Tulsa,
Yet again you have found a way to stir the ancestors in me. Connecting me emotionally & spiritually to the trauma, resilience & determination of family members whom I will never get to meet. To walk the hollowed ground of...
Dear Tulsa,
Yet again you have found a way to stir the ancestors in me. Connecting me emotionally & spiritually to the trauma, resilience & determination of family members whom I will never get to meet. To walk the hollowed ground of...
..#Greenwood and see confirmation of our greatness despite the horrors of segregation, murder & hate leaves me forever changed. Learning of the resolve of ancestors like Loula Williams, Homer Johnson & Mabel Little only emboldens me. I leave here standing even taller...
...on their shoulders with my commitment strengthened to help current & future generations ensure that the next "Black Wall Street" doesn't have to exist as a geography but instead as a philosophy of abundance that can mean that any Black person can be the next "O.W. Gurley"...
How is America reckoning with its past today?
Artist @KadirNelson 's painting “Tulsa”—featured on the cover of our June issue—evokes both what flourished and what was destroyed in the #TulsaRaceMassacre in 1921 on.natgeo.com/34iV4hl
Artist @KadirNelson 's painting “Tulsa”—featured on the cover of our June issue—evokes both what flourished and what was destroyed in the #TulsaRaceMassacre in 1921 on.natgeo.com/34iV4hl
Greenwood Avenue was a street so prosperous it would later be remembered as Black Wall Street. But 100 years ago, a white mob descended on the all-Black community in Tulsa and burned it to the ground. Here’s how the city is coming to terms with that night on.natgeo.com/3vu3RJq
When Michele Norris first asked strangers to sum up their feelings about race in just six words, she assumed few people would want to share. Here’s what she’s learned—10 years and half a million responses later on.natgeo.com/34jCPZ8
I think I am finally ready to discuss. #LovecraftCountry "Rewind 1921" on the #TulsaRaceMassacre.
As a Tulsa native...it definitely touched a chord.
As a Tulsa native...it definitely touched a chord.
So far I have avoided articles and podcasts about the show (and especially this episode) because I wanted to experience it through my own lens first before adding other voices to it.
Here are my thoughts:
Here are my thoughts:
1. #TheTulsaRaceMassacre is our 9/11. Imagine what it would be like to watch a graphic reenactment of that day if you lived in NYC or across the river in NJ constantly wondering about where you were at the time and all the "what ifs" the could have changed your life.
Continuing @hrw’s work on US policing, race & reparations, my colleagues will be in #Tulsa to celebrate #Juneteenth & to support a local effort to shine a light on the #TulsaRaceMassacre.
If you’re watching Tulsa this weekend, let this history guide you
If you’re watching Tulsa this weekend, let this history guide you
If you would like to understand more about the #TulsaRaceMassacre - and why it’s so important today - here’s a thread for you...
“Renewed impetus has also come from Human Rights Watch which has added its advocacy muscle to the campaign. The organization has released a 72-page report that argues that reparations for the #TulsaRaceMassacre is a matter of international human rights.”
theguardian.com/us-news/2020/j…
theguardian.com/us-news/2020/j…
As Tulsa, OK has been in the news lately, we have been revisiting some lesser discussed vital American history: The #tulsaracemassacre in 1921 in Tulsa’s Greenwood District (also known as Black Wall Street.) Learn more (and listen to interviews) at tulsahistory.org/exhibit/1921-t…
Even though the Tulsa Race Massacre saw white rioters burn 36 blocks of the African American neighborhood, and historians estimate over 300 people may have died, many are just learning about this event 99 years after it happened.
Looking at how this connects to the right to education, listen to this interview from @WBUR on how this was only added to the Oklahoma state curriculum in February of this year: wbur.org/onpoint/2020/0…
Trump will hold his first Covid-era political rally in Tulsa...
On Juneteenth, the date commemorating the ending of slavery in the US...
Yes, that Tulsa...
This is Trump’s white nationalist trolling at its worst.
nbcnews.com/politics/donal…
On Juneteenth, the date commemorating the ending of slavery in the US...
Yes, that Tulsa...
This is Trump’s white nationalist trolling at its worst.
nbcnews.com/politics/donal…
If you need to understand more about the #TulsaRaceMassacre, here’s a thread for you...
https://t.co/A1EZTeJKHK
https://t.co/A1EZTeJKHK
If Trump’s decision has outraged you - and it should...
There is something you can do.
Sign this petition to the authorities to make full reparations to survivors & descendants of the #TulsaRaceMassacre:
change.org/p/state-of-okl…
A new wave of signatures would send a signal.
There is something you can do.
Sign this petition to the authorities to make full reparations to survivors & descendants of the #TulsaRaceMassacre:
change.org/p/state-of-okl…
A new wave of signatures would send a signal.
In 1921, a white mob killed hundreds of black people & destroyed a prosperous black neighborhood in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Survivors of the massacre and their descendants are still suffering the consequences of the #TulsaRaceMassacre.
Survivors of the massacre and their descendants are still suffering the consequences of the #TulsaRaceMassacre.
On May 31, 1921, police in Tulsa arrested Dick Rowland, a young black man who lived in the Greenwood part of town, for an alleged assault on a white woman. Though the evidence against him was not strong, the Tulsa Tribune printed an editorial that afternoon calling for a lynching
A mob of white men converged on the county lock-up.
At the time, lynching of black people was common in the US—61 were reported in 1919; 61 in 1920; 57 in 1921. Violent white mobs terrorized black people, killing them & destroying their property, in cities throughout the US
At the time, lynching of black people was common in the US—61 were reported in 1919; 61 in 1920; 57 in 1921. Violent white mobs terrorized black people, killing them & destroying their property, in cities throughout the US
99 years ago - on 31 May, 1921 - white mobs ransacked & burned down “the Black Wall Street” of Greenwood, Tulsa.
26 black people died & more than 800 were injured. #TulsaRaceMassacre #riots2020 #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd
#BLACK_LIVES_MATTER #GeorgeFloyd
26 black people died & more than 800 were injured. #TulsaRaceMassacre #riots2020 #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd
#BLACK_LIVES_MATTER #GeorgeFloyd
Why is what happened in Tulsa a century ago👆or what happened in the Deep South two centuries ago relevant to today?
Kimberly Jones explains discrimination, inequality & institutional racism in USA - using Monopoly. #BlackLivesMatter #BLM #Trump (PART 1)
Kimberly Jones explains discrimination, inequality & institutional racism in USA - using Monopoly. #BlackLivesMatter #BLM #Trump (PART 1)
“You broke the social contract when you came & you killed us in the streets.”
Powerful, eloquent & angry.
#MustWatch Part 2: Kimberly Jones on racism in America #BlackLivesMatter #EndRacism #BLACK_LIVES_MATTER #GeorgeFloydProtests #GeorgeFloyd
Powerful, eloquent & angry.
#MustWatch Part 2: Kimberly Jones on racism in America #BlackLivesMatter #EndRacism #BLACK_LIVES_MATTER #GeorgeFloydProtests #GeorgeFloyd
Just in case you think the #TulsaRaceMassacre is a singular event that never happened elsewhere, think again.
There is Wilmington, SC, where 2000 armed white men razed Black businesses and shot 60 Black men in the streets and overturned the local govt
groveatlantic.com/book/wilmingto…
There is Wilmington, SC, where 2000 armed white men razed Black businesses and shot 60 Black men in the streets and overturned the local govt
groveatlantic.com/book/wilmingto…
Then there is Colfax where a riot overthrew the local government (Blacks were elected) and razed the town, and somewhere between 60 - 150 Black people were killed AFTER they surrendered. AND to make it more toxic, a memorial remains to this day honoring the white murderers
