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Tulsa massacre documentaries to offer deep dive into tragedy

The director said the "more the story can be brought to light, the better.'' Documentaries will air on the History Channel, CNN, PBS and National Geography.

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They didn t talk about it : how a historian helped Tulsa confront the horror of its past | Oklahoma

In 1921, a white mob attacked Tulsa’s Black Wall Street, killing an estimated 300 people, but it wasn’t talked about until recently

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Search for mass graves to begin again in Tulsa | US

OKLAHOMA CITY – As the U.S. marks 100 years since one of its most shameful historical chapters, researchers, including descendants of Black vict .

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They didn t talk about it : how a historian helped Tulsa confront the horror of its past

‘They didn’t talk about it’: how a historian helped Tulsa confront the horror of its past David Smith © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Universal History Archive/Getty Images There was no memorial to it in town. Teachers made no mention of it, not even during a half-semester devoted to local history. The white schoolboy Scott Ellsworth of Tulsa, Oklahoma, was left to wonder what the city’s darkest secret could be. “As a 10- and 11-year-old, I would occasionally hear older adults, neighbours, talking about what we then called ‘the riot’ and they would always lower their voices or change the subject,” recalls Ellsworth, now 67. “I started to catch wind of these stories about bodies floating down the Arkansas River, machine guns on the roofs of town, but you couldn’t really find out anything about it.”

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Massacre Documentaries Offer Deep Dive Into Tragedy

LOS ANGELES (AP) Several documentary filmmakers some backed by NBA superstars are shedding light on the historically ignored Tulsa Race Massacre of

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