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A Look at the Similarities Between the Tulsa Massacre and George Floyd’s Murder (Exclusive Clip)
Now, to commemorate the 100th anniversary, there are three new documentaries from History, National Geographic and PBS chronicling and re-examining the events leading up to and during the actual massacre while also looking at the larger context of racial violence and social injustice in America and how the country and specifically Tulsa is reckoning with its past.
While Nelson feels that a documentary about the Tulsa Race Massacre is evergreen and could have come out at any time, “I think it’s especially important now,” he says. “It’s especially important as this country is doing a bit of introspection about how we got to where we are and why we got to where we are following the George Floyd killing and the protests we went through last summer.”
Courtesy of Jonathan Silvers/Saybrook Productions Ltd.
Mon. May 31 at 9 pm on WKAR-HD 23.1 & STREAMING | Learn about the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, on the one hundredth anniversary of the crime, and how the community of Tulsa is coming to terms with its past, present, and future.
Directed by Jonathan Silvers, and reported by
The Washington Post’s DeNeen L.Brown,
Tulsa: The Fire and the Forgotten looks back at the explosion of violence when the once prosperous neighborhood known as “Black Wall Street” was destroyed by a mob of white residents. Hundreds of Black-owned businesses and homes in the Greenwood district of Tulsa, Oklahoma, were burnt to the ground, killing an estimated 100-300 Black residents and leaving an estimated 10,000 Black residents homeless.
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Ahead of the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre, PBS is looking back on one of the most horrific incidents of racial violence in American history, which took place between May 31 and June 1, 1921. For many, what happened a century ago the killing of Black people and gross social injustice is similar to the growing number of Black people killed by police, including the death of George Floyd, who murdered on May 25, 2020.
In an exclusive clip from the PBS documentary,
Tulsa: The Fire and the Forgotten, activist Gregory Robinson sees a direct connection between these two tragedies. “We were coming together saying, if you think George Floyd is the only person who has received injustice in this country, you’re way out of touch. Right here in the city of Tulsa we have not been doing justice by citizens,” he says, noting that the injustices of the massacre, let alone the 2016 police ki
Jimmie Tramel
Tulsa World
If you assign a series of storytellers to one story, each of them will put their own stamp on that story.
How will their stories be the same?
In what ways will those stories branch out to be different than the others?
Thatâs what weâll find out when a tale long untold â the story of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre â is explored in a series of documentaries that have been crafted in conjunction with the centennial of the race massacre and the destruction of Tulsaâs Black Wall Street.
ABC News Liveâs documentary special, âTulsaâs Buried Truth,â premiered Tuesday and is available on demand on Hulu. The documentary spun out of reporting for the primetime newsmagazine âSoul of a Nationâ and the podcast âSoul of a Nation: Tulsaâs Buried Truth.â
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