In the 1920s, there was a Strong Black Community here in tulsa called greenwood. These people were the core of black entrepreneurship. People call it The Black Wall Street. Greenwood was like putting harlem, Bourbon Street, and Chocolate City all in one place. But White Tulsans talked about greenwood as Little Africa or [bleep] land. Tulsa was a powder keg, needing only something to set the community alight. Between 100 and 300 people, most of them black, were killed. Today we call it a massacre. They were hastily trying to get rid of the bodies by dumping them in mass graves around the city. We have tulsans of an undetermined number who were murdered. It should not have taken 99 years. Anybody who thinks that this crime scene is not going to speak doesnt have the ears to hear. The ancestors are awake and the earth is shaking. I came to tulsa when i was in the sixth grade. So thats been, whew, i dont know how many years. My mother is from oklahoma. There was a Strong Black Community in
Some different concoctions in the back of the old corner drugstore where the pharmacy was located and he came up with a fragrant smelling mixture that he liked very much. He probably used it in some medicine, but eventually, it was sold as a syrup with carbonated water in it across the Soda Fountain counter. First, we travel to Baylor University to find out about its gospel music restoration project which is working to archive gospel records in an effort to learn about the role this music played in the Civil Rights Movement. I can only speak for myself is why i think gospel music resonates to such a degree even now. And 40s from the 30s no less than the current gospel artists right now seem to me has a certain almost undefinable something. I would say black music in underpinning of the pain and freedom struggle of African Americans that continues to this day. Why it never really goes out of ande it has this longing residents of a deeper pool of emotion that songs about puppy i haved so
I have a question for you. College is from New Philadelphia. Do you know where New Philadelphia is . We appreciate that. Gov. Kasich dont stand next to me. I look short enough. Take care of him. John kasich finishing off his double scoop of Chocolate Ice Cream at the iowa state fair and speaking with people at the fair, apparently adding out ther his comments at soapboxes afternoon. We will continue with your calls for the next 10 minutes or so. Ted is in pittsburgh on our democrats line. Hello. Caller this guy is a fresh of their is a breath of fresh air. Andounded like Lincoln Roosevelt and truman and kennedy. Bush senior, obama i really liked the guy. I think he can Cross Party Lines the way hes talking. After youthr use in a way that demonstrates volunteering it kind of reminded me of kennedy. He says what are you doing for america. Hes a conservative, hes brash, he is empathetic and i would vote for him. For theeven campaign guy. I appreciate him. He is slow speaking and articulat
Blacks had no rights and were considered property. 3 5 a person. Ot even a full human being if you have an institution like that that flourishes for hundreds of years, even when the laws change, it is still embedded in peoples minds and psyches. It is important to set the tone for what happened in the later years. A very important supreme courts we focus on is the 1896 plessy versus ferguson which established the separate but equal doctrine, putting a legal stamp on jim crow laws and black codes that flourished throughout the united states. A long timehere for creating a long list, everything from transportation systems, restaurants, hotels, whenorhoods, hospitals during segregation the hospitals were segregated and their been cases where a black person needing emergency assistance, even if the white hospital was closer, they cannot make it over to the Black Hospital in time. The colored hospital ended up dying. Even cemeteries were segregated. Everything was segregated. This was the l
With a visit to the school. A u. S. Park ranger will show us around the Historic Site. Welcome to the Little Rock Central High School National Historic site. My name is spirit tricky. Im a park ranger at the site. And my significant tie to the story is the fact that my mother Minnijean Brown is one of the little rock nine. The name coined by the media to describe the first nine black students to desegregate Central High School. The grounds youre standing on became world famous in 1957. Because the first nine black students walked up the steps. On september 25. Our exhibits put the little rock central high crisis in the context of the greater civil rights muchlt movement. They begin with slavery and the institution and the fact that blacks had absolutely to rights. Considered property. And even three fifths a person. Not even a full human being. If you have an institution like that, that flourishes for hundreds of years, even when the laws change. Its still imbedded in peoples minds and