Posted on Dec 12, 2022
In 2 U.S. cities haunted by race massacres, facing the past is painful and divisive
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Shortly after going to work for the Tulsa Historical Society in 2001, Michelle Place recalls historian Richard Warner hefting a large cardboard box atop her desk. "This is the most important collection that the Tulsa Historical Society has," he told her. "Guard it with your life."
Warner had co-authored the final report of the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot Commission, created by the Oklahoma Legislature to present a historical accounting of the infamous massacre that left upward of 300 African Americans dead and resulted in the destruction of "Black Wall Street," in the city's prosperous Greenwood enclave. The box contained all of the research the commission had collected.
Place gravitated toward the photographs inside but couldn't stomach what she saw. "It was so horrific," she says. "Burned bodies and dead in the streets."
Just a few weeks earlier, Place had known nothing about the death and destruction depicted in those black and white images. It was only after fielding a call from an overseas journalist wanting to speak with someone about "the Tulsa race riot" that a colleague clued her in. "'You don't know, do you?'" she remembers the co-worker asking.
Shortly after going to work for the Tulsa Historical Society in 2001, Michelle Place recalls historian Richard Warner hefting a large cardboard box atop her desk. "This is the most important collection that the Tulsa Historical Society has," he told her. "Guard it with your life."
Warner had co-authored the final report of the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot Commission, created by the Oklahoma Legislature to present a historical accounting of the infamous massacre that left upward of 300 African Americans dead and resulted in the destruction of "Black Wall Street," in the city's prosperous Greenwood enclave. The box contained all of the research the commission had collected.
Place gravitated toward the photographs inside but couldn't stomach what she saw. "It was so horrific," she says. "Burned bodies and dead in the streets."
Just a few weeks earlier, Place had known nothing about the death and destruction depicted in those black and white images. It was only after fielding a call from an overseas journalist wanting to speak with someone about "the Tulsa race riot" that a colleague clued her in. "'You don't know, do you?'" she remembers the co-worker asking.
In 2 U.S. cities haunted by race massacres, facing the past is painful and divisive
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Tom Hanks on Tulsa Race Massacre
#TomHanks #TulsaMassacre
The following is a previous written statement/response that is NOT directed at anyone, yet the tone is what it is.
With that respectfully outta the way ….
https://youtu.be/Mhr1nyZDG-k
CRT = Critical Race Facts *{Aint no damn theory, GTFOH} :
These are #AMERIKKKA / #USA Deadliest Domestic Massacres/Mass Shooting/Acts of Domestic Terrorism/Riots by White Racist Domestic Terrorist in American Documented History :
Remember these FACTS :
East St. Louis Massacre - 1917
200 - 700 Deaths : Source - https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/east-st-louis-race-riot-left-dozens-dead-devastating-community-on-the-rise-180963885/
Arkansas Massacre - 1919
854 - Deaths : SOURCE - https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/death-hundreds-elaine-massacre-led-supreme-court-take-major-step-toward-equal-justice-african-americans-180969863/
Ocoee Massacre - 1920 : SOURCE - https://www.ucf.edu/pegasus/the-truth-laid-bare/
https://www.thehistorycenter.org/exhibition/the-ocoee-massacre/
Most estimates total 30–35 Blacks killed, although as many as 50 African Americans may have been killed during the massacre. Most African-American-owned buildings and residences in northern Ocoee were burned to the ground.
Deaths: 30–35 Blacks, 2 Whites
Location: Ocoee, Florida
Date: November 2–3, 1920
Tulsa Massacre - 1921
300 - 3000 Deaths : SOURCE - https://www.history.com/.amp/this-day-in-history/tulsa-race-massacre-begins
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/tulsa-1921-race-massacre-mass-grave-greenwood-archaeology-dna/amp
Rosewood Massacre - 1923
150 - Deaths : SOURCE - https://www.history.com/.amp/topics/early-20th-century-us/rosewood-massacre
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Rosewood-riot-of-1923
*If you didn’t know these Massacres were against “Black/African-Americans
The historical/history of FACTS they call “theories/theory” that they desire not taught on known about.*
*** Disclaimer : This a repost from myself, because people are tooooo comfortable with the status quo. ***
With that respectfully outta the way ….
https://youtu.be/Mhr1nyZDG-k
CRT = Critical Race Facts *{Aint no damn theory, GTFOH} :
These are #AMERIKKKA / #USA Deadliest Domestic Massacres/Mass Shooting/Acts of Domestic Terrorism/Riots by White Racist Domestic Terrorist in American Documented History :
Remember these FACTS :
East St. Louis Massacre - 1917
200 - 700 Deaths : Source - https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/east-st-louis-race-riot-left-dozens-dead-devastating-community-on-the-rise-180963885/
Arkansas Massacre - 1919
854 - Deaths : SOURCE - https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/death-hundreds-elaine-massacre-led-supreme-court-take-major-step-toward-equal-justice-african-americans-180969863/
Ocoee Massacre - 1920 : SOURCE - https://www.ucf.edu/pegasus/the-truth-laid-bare/
https://www.thehistorycenter.org/exhibition/the-ocoee-massacre/
Most estimates total 30–35 Blacks killed, although as many as 50 African Americans may have been killed during the massacre. Most African-American-owned buildings and residences in northern Ocoee were burned to the ground.
Deaths: 30–35 Blacks, 2 Whites
Location: Ocoee, Florida
Date: November 2–3, 1920
Tulsa Massacre - 1921
300 - 3000 Deaths : SOURCE - https://www.history.com/.amp/this-day-in-history/tulsa-race-massacre-begins
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/tulsa-1921-race-massacre-mass-grave-greenwood-archaeology-dna/amp
Rosewood Massacre - 1923
150 - Deaths : SOURCE - https://www.history.com/.amp/topics/early-20th-century-us/rosewood-massacre
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Rosewood-riot-of-1923
*If you didn’t know these Massacres were against “Black/African-Americans
The historical/history of FACTS they call “theories/theory” that they desire not taught on known about.*
*** Disclaimer : This a repost from myself, because people are tooooo comfortable with the status quo. ***
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."all, 122 African American men were convicted and jailed in connection with the violence. No whites ever faced justice.
Despite their shared legacy, White and Hicks-Gilbert represent competing camps among descendants.
Hicks-Gilbert believes the generally accepted view that the massacre involved Black sharecroppers trying to organize, but White thinks his own family's story, along with the oral histories the Elaine Legacy Center has helped collect, support a different version of events — mainly that most of the Black farmers were landowners themselves. "...
..."all, 122 African American men were convicted and jailed in connection with the violence. No whites ever faced justice.
Despite their shared legacy, White and Hicks-Gilbert represent competing camps among descendants.
Hicks-Gilbert believes the generally accepted view that the massacre involved Black sharecroppers trying to organize, but White thinks his own family's story, along with the oral histories the Elaine Legacy Center has helped collect, support a different version of events — mainly that most of the Black farmers were landowners themselves. "...
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Lt Col Scott Shuttleworth
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This is good history...bad story and event but good solid history. This is what we need to be teaching...not picking and choosing what is history and what is not. It is the same for me about statues. Why move them when they spur discussion. They need to be out there so folks can talk about them and what they stood for.
We as a nation don't need to pick and choose what we teach and learn. We need to know all of our nation's history. Warts and all. That is why I am adamantly against removing any of it...add to it with the truth but don't remove one piece of history to teach another. When we do that, we are bound to repeat it in one way or another.
-- However, those who control things HAVE "picked and chosen" what was taught and studied and it's always been whitewashed versions of history. Statues? Really? Who is learning history from statues? Those can go into museums where they belong. Removing statues doesn't erase history. There aren't any statues of Hitler in Germany but they still know who he was and the Holocaust. Smh
Posted 1 h ago
This is good history...bad story and event but good solid history. This is what we need to be teaching...not picking and choosing what is history and what is not. It is the same for me about statues. Why move them when they spur discussion. They need to be out there so folks can talk about them and what they stood for.
We as a nation don't need to pick and choose what we teach and learn. We need to know all of our nation's history. Warts and all. That is why I am adamantly against removing any of it...add to it with the truth but don't remove one piece of history to teach another. When we do that, we are bound to repeat it in one way or another.
-- However, those who control things HAVE "picked and chosen" what was taught and studied and it's always been whitewashed versions of history. Statues? Really? Who is learning history from statues? Those can go into museums where they belong. Removing statues doesn't erase history. There aren't any statues of Hitler in Germany but they still know who he was and the Holocaust. Smh
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