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
custody was moved to the fairgrounds east of greenwood. they set up cots in the kitchen. they dug latrines. those who stayed there were expected to work. the women would prepare the meals. the men were sent out to work cleaning up greenwood. folks in these internment camps had to have a green card. i don t know how they got these little cards printed so fast, but everybody had a little i.d. card. schoolchildren and all, told what you did, and you had to have that little i d wherever you went. and to get out of these internment centers, they needed to be countersigned by a white person. essentially, a white person would vouch for them and get them out of these internment centers.
fairgrounds east of greenwood. they set up cots and a kitchen. they dug latrines. the people who stayed there were expected to work. the women would prepare the meals. men were sent out to work cleaning up greenwood. folks in these internment camps had to have a green card. i don t know how they got these little cards, but everybody had a little i.d. card, school children and all, told what you did and you had to have that i.d. wherever you went. and to get out of these internment centers, they need to be countersigned by a white person. as soon as a white person would vouch for them and get them out of these internment centers. the theory by the authorities was that this was done to
on the morning of june 1st after the massacre, the national guard and some employees and maybe some civilians began rounding up all of the african-american population in greenwood that they could. there were between five and 7,000 people detained. and the reason given for that was that it was for their own protection, that they were going to be put some place safe. everybody who was still in custody was moved to the fairgrounds east of greenwood. they set up cots and a kitchen. they dug latrines. the people who stayed there were expected to work. the women would prepare the meals. men were sent out to work cleaning up greenwood.
meals. men were sent out to work, cleaning up greenwood. these camps would have green co ca cards. you need to have those little id cards. they need to be counted by a white person and since their white person would vouch for them and get them out. the theory by authorities was this was done to protect people from physical harm and a context of this chaotic situation. there was not a lot of situations that was needed because who has power and who does not? the people who had homes went to