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‘Tulsa: The Fire and the Forgotten’ pays respect to lives lost
Exclusive: “There s this tendency to talk about bootstraps and a tendency to leave out the fact that America likes to take your shoestrings or your bootstraps,” Greg Robinson II, activist and descendent of Tulsa Race Massacre survivors, says.
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A century has passed since the Tulsa Race Massacre destroyed the vibrant and prosperous Black Wall Street, but it’s still seared in the public consciousness.
Tulsa: The Fire and the Forgotten is just one of the many documentaries that will delve further into the horrific event.
Tulsa: The Fire and the Forgotten is a 90-minute documentary that explores the racial violence that ravaged the Greenwood district known as Black Wall Street on May 31, 1921. An unruly white mob of 2,000 descended into Black Wall Street and burned down the neighborhood to ashes and claimed 100-300 Black lives.
31 May marks the centenary of a 1921 massacre targeting Tulsa's prosperous African-American community in the district of Greenwood, known as "Black Wall Street."
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Lessie Benningfield Randle, 106, can still remember a house engulfed in flames and the bodies stacked on trucks, one hundred years later. I was quite a little kid but I remember running and the soldiers were coming in, Ms Randle said in an interview with Reuters as her Oklahoma hometown of Tulsa prepared to mark one of the darkest chapters in its history.
31 May marks the centenary of a massacre targeting Tulsa s prosperous African-American community in the district of Greenwood that bore the nickname Black Wall Street .
After a black man was accused of assaulting a white woman, an allegation that was never proven, white rioters gunned down blacks, looted homes and set fire to buildings block by block. More than 1,000 buildings were destroyed.
Tulsa: The Fire and the Forgotten works best as a learning tool, filling in some of the blanks of American history, details that were purposely redacted by the same types of people who wish to continue that redaction.