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 niggerland. 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 have an undetermined number who were murdered. It should not have taken 99 years. Anybody who thinks this crime scene won t speak doesn t 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 that s been, i don t know how many years. My mother is from oklahoma. There was a strong black community in tulsa called greenwood. These people were the core of black entrepreneurship. And they would help you get your business started
People call it the black wall street. Wood home run greenwood was like this them all in one place. But whites talk about greenwood as little africa or niggerland. Tulsa was a powder keg. Meaning only something can set the community alight. 100, 300 people, most of them black, were killed. Today we call it a massacre. They were hate ing to get rid o the bodies by dumping it in mass graves around the city. We tulsians the number it murdered, should not have taken 99 years. Anybody who thinks this crime scene is not going to speak doesn t 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 that s been, whoo, i don t know how many years. My mother is from oklahoma. That was a strong black community in tulsa called greenwood. These people were the core of black entrepreneurship. They will help you get your business started. People call it the black wall street. And when you read the editorials, they would also post event
We re sitting on a bomb. You can have a black person killed with a video, then this is what you ll get. This is a revolution. We got to increase the peace. Should people be frightened? i think people should wake up. It s 1991. Wake up. We have talked at each other and about each other for a long time. It s high time we all began talking with each other. Can we all get along? [ applause ] in about 20 minutes from now david dinkins, who is now mayor dinkins, is scheduled to step out from city hall and take a public oath of office and become new york city s 106th mayor and the city s first africanamerican mayor. I intend to be the mayor of all the people of new york. David dinkins being inaugurated on new year s day in 1990 is an auspicious start to the decade and really a culmination of the civil rights struggles of the 1960s. People are starting to see tangible benefits of that struggle. A grandson of slaves was sworn in today as the nation s first elected black governor. Did you ever t
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 doesn t 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 that s been, whew, i don t know how many years. my mother is from oklahoma. ther
lynching is a tool to control and oppress black people. racialized violence is as old as the constitution. klans are not running around with white sheets over their head, but it s still happening. today, people are horrified of the police. it s the modern day lynching. what are we going to do about it? we move forward with people deciding i m bold enough, and i m going to make it change. beulah mae donald took on one of the most violent criminal organizations in the united states. this is an incredible story of courage. the body of a black man has been found hanging from a tree in mobile, alabama. living in mobile was a quiet town. it s nothing but old trees. but after march 1981, it was kind of, like, creepy to me to just look at the trees. the hurt is still there. the hurt my mom went through, i just visualize her face and i go, like, i can t talk about it today. my mama, beulah mae donald, was a quiet woman. she was a good-hearted person. all the neighbor