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
we re going to excavate because we have an idea of where some bodies might be. we brought in ground penetrating radar. they showed that there were anomalies in these areas. i was 20 years younger, standing out in oak lawn. we were all out there. like, we re about to do this, right? they called it off abruptly because there was a white family that did not want that area to be disturbed. they suggested that there was perhaps a white body that was buried underground and that that body would have been disturbed as you re looking for race massacre dead. our effort got caught up in politics. a bunch of lawmakers that pretty much really didn t care. it made the state look bad. i am thoroughly convinced that the state of oklahoma was not culpable.
we were shut down by the city of tulsa. and at that point, you know, i thought the ball game was over. this is a historic day for tulsa and for our country as we begin a test excavation in oak lawn cemetery. there s nothing abstract. there s nothing theoretical. this is not a research project. this is an investigation. scientists are set to finally break ground in the effort to find victims of the tulsa race massacre. nearly 100 years later, the families to victims of the 1921 tulsa race massacre could get answers and closure. it should have been done well before now, but it wasn t. that is a baton that s been handed to us. and it is not an easy race. the initial excavation, we focused on a location within oak
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