historian for the commission. during that period i was thinking maybe we could use this to figure out how many people died and where they were buried. how many? go ahead. i am chair of the survivors committee of the oklahoma legislative commission to study the tulsa race riot of 1921. i was the videographer for the commission report. i was on to it accompany eddie faye gates. her job was record the systems of the riot survivors. we have located 51 actual living riot survivors, ages 78 to 104. no research takes the place of eyewitness testimony. that is why this day is so significant. mrs. simms. you ll never forget that.
that s something be always with you. this has been the age old story here in tulsa, never knew what happened to my great uncle. never saw my aunt again. people were coming in with oral history where bodies could be buried. we interviewed over 300 actuals ans to identify what we thought were likely spots in town where victims of the massacre were lane in graves. he took some steps he took 78 years ago. days after the tulsa race riot, he was 10 at the time, drawn by the curious sight of men digging a large trench with boxes stacked nearby. clyde eddie talk about at the age of 10 when he was at the oak lawn cemetery, he saw these
The one thing I haven’t been able to square over the last five years is how the most pressed people in the game have the audacity to call anyone a snowflake. I just don’t understand how you can call anyone triggered, when a simple mention of the fact that America has historically been shitty for anyone who isn’t straight or white is enough to send the mediocre white masses in their feelings. In what I can only assume was an act perpetuated by one of those white people in their feelings, a New York art gallery with an exhibit dedicated to the Tulsa Race Massacre has been vandalized.
President Biden on Tuesday compared the white mob that attacked Black residents in Tulsa in 1921 to the "white supremacists" who marched in the far-right "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville fou
riots. ages 78 to 104. no research takes the place of eye witness testimony. that s why this day is so significant. you will never forget that route. that s something that we would always remember. this has been the story here in tulsa. never knew what happened to my great uncle and great aunt again. you hear those stories over the ages. folks coming in with oral history where bodies could be buried. we interviewed over 300 tulsans to identify what we thought were three likely spots of massacre victims were buried in unmarked graves. days after the tulsa race