The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921

Emory Associate Professor of African American Studies, Carol Anderson, discusses some of the lesser know instances of racial prejudice in a series of videos entitled - "THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF THE QUEST FOR CIVIL RIGHTS".

[@haysuse9810]

This doesn't sound like a Riot but a terrorist attack.

[@Spazzmatazzz]

That's exactly what it was. but in order to keep the racist fires burning and the ideology alive, they used the term "riot" in order to falsely portray the blacks as part of the violence.

[@joanearly266]

Totally agree.

[@stupidcommentmaker]

Pogrom*

[@Ghost-eo6jb]

@SquidBag A misunderstanding? This was the first aerial bombing of American citizens ever recorded in U.S. history. This wasn't a misunderstanding or a riot, it was terrorism. Let's call a spade a spade.

[@frederickweeksjr.1189]

EXACTLY

[@azami286]

I wouldn't call this a race riot, but an act of terrorism.

[@azami286]

***** WTF are you talking about? of course this act was racist, I'm just saying this was a racist act of terrorism, not a riot

[@hihorror]

my bad

[@Hyporama]

Oh yeah. Absolutely. Perhaps more than domestic terrorism, an invasion. The woman describes the narrative very well, not smug, not implicating, merely describing what happened. Judge for yourself. The further implication is how people react when someone is more successful than they. Cue the election..

[@jessicaflowers6795]

it is a race riot you clans member

[@fusgersnabble224]

Each side was at fault here...

[@bazookafluke]

It's crazy. I grew up in Oklahoma, and they barely even talked about this in school. America's history is amazingly romanticized and woefully half told for the most part. The fact that this huge, and ugly event in Oklahoma history is still so hushed up is indicative of so many ugly truths that still exist today

[@highspacefox]

absolutely, I grew up in Tulsa and never learned about this, if the people of America are unwilling to learn the true history of our 'great nation' then we are doomed to repeat the events. Hopefully bombs are never dropped on American people again, that was astonishing to hear, to think of the mindset back then......

[@wam1549]

@iman, Wow, just wow! You're so disconnected from reality that you hang on to the Jim Crow days for dear life.

[@bjlevi5768]

@Iman Robota youre a fool. Blacks are not dangerous they're tired of sick fucking idiots like you... I am too.

[@g4gg4gg4gg4g]

@Colton Moore best comment of a LIFETIME..

[@plunderpunk2]

re: not unlike Wilmington 1898. I'd lived here for many years before this event was brought to my attention.

[@pharaoh2537]

They need to stop labeling this as a riot..it was a massacre!!!

[@Watkinsstudio]

@@JohnSmith-dh3kx more black lives were lost, 20:1. Whites did the incursion, the looting and the killing of black people. No whites arrested, no police effort to stop the killing, no militia efforts to stop the killing either.

[@laura-rosemclellan4196]

It was a domestic terrorist attack.

[@malakahbanathyasharahla2302]

Exactly : A Massacre 😡

[@anchorsanvils]

No it was a Genocide.

[@whinybilly523]

Yeah

[@louiejovantellez9081]

Ok I just finished watching the 1st of the new HBO show The Watchmen SPOILER and this was happening in the beginning I had NO FREAKING CLUE this had EVER happened. It's so disgusting how important history like this isn't more known by the masses.

[@MelvinTaylorII]

Louie Jovan Tellez man I watched the episode too but I had know about this prior. I hope to one day create content that amazing as it was outstanding to watch on HBO. I’m so bummed that we have to wait til next week but excited to see how the series turns out!

[@MelvinTaylorII]

SquidBag I loved it. It’s a continuation and not a reboot. Lmk what you think.

[@caramelle1908]

It was never meant for you to know. That is the saddest part to fathom. I am glad you are aware, and able to learn more about that era.

[@robinvolpi]

And there were several more "Tulsa's" along the way. Also, while not the exact set of circumstances, there was #SenecaVillage now known as #CentralPark.... A look at Seneca Village, the early black settlement obliterated by the creation of Central Park t.co/2msrLJiyWN

[@_A_343]

@@MelvinTaylorII You're weak

[@MateuszBukovicky]

Who else is here after watching the Watchmen premiere?

[@marius4iasi]

Yeah, I thought this might have been just an alternate universe thing, but omg, this was real. Never heard of it. True art educates.

[@Sablus]

IT was a amazing opening for the series. Also welcome to the American education/propoganda system, it likes to keep such horrors like this hushed up.

[@mkrs01g]

@@Sablus Not to mention the american cultural system where blacks talk about stuff like this all the time but are always ignored and said to be making things up or just using "excuses" for why they can't get ahead. Stuff like this is what happens when groups of blacks start to get ahead, it gets taken or destroyed and people go back to saying blacks don't succeed because they're lazy and don't want to work...because they close their eyes and ears to this type of stuff when blacks talk about it. It's like it doesn't even register until the right kind of white source says it. And if white sources aren't the ones telling the story, it won't be heard by the masses.

[@damndemn]

me

[@ariesalvin8574]

Interesting how Rick and Morty did an episode titled "Lets Watch The Purge" with Cat People that are dressed in 1920s fashion. Then watching the opening Tusla Riots scene on Watchmen I finally made the connection.

[@leonardofierro9123]

Here because of Watchmen. Stunned/Appalled that I've ever heard of this event until now.

[@jpb53ao]

Same here.

[@lightingquick]

I agree 💯

[@DarthHydra456]

It should have been taught in schools 🏫

[@MalachiHealey]

You people are so easily lead. My god.

[@chrisf8293]

Black Americans were never "immigrants", our people were brought here in chains, and literally slaved away building America for 8 generations, amassing trillions of dollars in wealth that they never saw a penny of. That's not an immigrant story, understand that we didn't come here from some place else hoping for a better future, instead the American dream was built on the backs of our ancestors. Respect that we have a unique history in the US that other people don't share, to compare it to an immigrant story is to diminish the brutal history of how we really came to be in These United States.

[@chrisf8293]

​@UCfr4AVWTUdDKpr-Joo2ctog Yes, "trillions" with a T. Every estimate of the wealth amassed during those 246 of slavery puts the amount in the trillions (in terms of today's dollars), even the most conservative estimates are in the trillions. If you count the worth of the slaves themselves, the hours of unpaid labor across millions of slaves for 246 years, and the lifetime productivity of a slave, the estimates are easily in the trillions. In fact, I *challenge* you to find an economist that has studied and written on this subject that hasn't put figures in the trillions. Please do that.

[@chrisf8293]

@@jamesray1439 You trolls are something else, no wonder you never want to show your real faces. You call it "negro math" but can't actually produce any data that refutes what I said. On top of that, you bring up welfare (typical for racist trolls) which white people are still the main beneficiaries of, but fail to talk about the *biggest* "welfare" program in America's history which was the Homestead Act. The Homestead Act gave 270 million acres of land away to white families for free. Many white families who immigrated here were able to own 160 acres of free land as soon as they naturalized in 5 years. Today 93 million white Americans are estimated to be beneficiaries of the Homestead Act that by and large *excluded* black Americans. No amount of rhetoric will make whatever juvenile comparison that you're trying to conjure up make sense.

[@jauharilee7496]

@@jamesray1439 You must be very poor to think the way you're thinking

[@mendez704]

@@jamesray1439 Let me see...welfare exists (for black people) since 70 years ago..Slavery lasted 1 century and segregation another. Seems your math is as shitty as your head

[@chrisf8293]

@Mike Polakowski Another troll afraid to show his face. You keep throwing around that word dumbass, but going by what you typed, it's evident you're projecting your lack of intellect on me. I like how you conveniently left out the sentence that came directly after your quote. That's called cherry picking, and you are probably the worst at it that I've ever seen. Here's the full quote: "As Professor Sandy Darity Jr. - a leading economist and premiere scholar in the area of American reparations - and Prof. Dania Frank have illustrated using the work of Vedder, Gallaway and Klingaman, the gains in wealth to white southerners from ownership of blacks in 1859 was $3.2 million. *In today’s dollars, the value of that debt is estimated to be somewhere between $5 to $10 trillion dollars* depending upon the interest rate used for compounding purposes." Now, how you concluded in your mind that the people who were involuntarily brought here and enslaved for 246 years (literally longer than America has been a country) should somehow be made to pay for the Civil War is beyond me, especially considering that 10% of the makeup of the entire Union army was comprised of black Americans, and considering that 1/3 of them lost their lives. Clearly you are a troll, and have no real arguments. Good day to you.

[@hollaboyz3078]

they saw how much progress we were making back then so they bombed the place. pure hate and envy.

[@lardixate1930]

Do you know the meaning of punctuation? Did you not finish elementary school?

[@bjlevi5768]

You are a sad excuse for human flesh and someone should make sure you never breed... thats a scary thought.... you as a parent.

[@ColosoulCameron]

+Ben Middleton...You are an ignorant fool. So blacks weren't smart enough to be doctors and lawyers in 1921? Except there were already many black scientists at that time and plenty of other blacks in other great professions. One thing is for sure, you sure are not intelligent enough to form a proper sentence.

[@diempardon4259]

Ben Middleton how were they not smart enough to build businesses when they built every white business and even wrote blueprints for several “white inventors”? Before whites created drugs for the diseases they carried from Neanderthals they went to mammys for nursing. Blacks literally did everything back then despite whites constantly implementing laws to keep them oppressed.

[@Sablus]

@Jeremy Jones woof the racism is strong in you, much ignorance and hate.

[@ebonyrose316266]

This is so sad. Some "people" are the spawn of Satan.

[@eugenesant9015]

Black folks. It's called the Mark of cain.

[@_A_343]

Some? You don't know history.

[@xxblazxerxx2001]

@@eugenesant9015 it's actually you, the mark of cain, the skin burns your skin, that should give you a hint

[@2000dpdpdp]

Eugene Sant the sun burns your skin, isn’t it obvious you were meant to stay in your caves away from the real world

[@mountzion2495]

The white supremacists. Lord Jesus please come

[@GrAnDmAMiTtEnSS]

The fact I never learned about this in school is deeply disturbing. Definitely shows there is something wrong with our education system

[@JC-li8kk]

You’ll also never hear about buying a house, investing your money, paying your taxes, staying out of debt, planning for your future, retirement accounts, stocks & bonds, how to live within your means, the effects of sugar & carbs on your body, how to plan for an emergency, marriage, kids, what field of work might interest you, how your talents and hobbies can earn money, etc, etc. Just keep them busy with reading writing math science & “history” for 13 years. We don’t want them discovering ways to beat the system or have any advantage in life.

[@HueyShabazz]

I want to watch the full Documentary about Tulsa, but I don't know if I can handle it. Just this 5 minute video of her summarizing it hurts and angers me. And they tell us to forget about Slavery when this shit happened well after Slavery.

[@aproverbs31woman59]

We are still slaves and under oppression. They just allow us to do more, but they don't want us to separate because they know they can't do anything without us. Image what we could do on our own knowing that we, "our ancestors built America". That is powerful. Read Deuteronomy 28 in your bible it explains our situation. God bless!

[@the5052]

Proverbs31 Whites can’t do anything without blacks? Lol! That’s hilarious! 😂 god bless!

[@sammypresents]

Don't ever vote away your second amendment rights.

[@iloveketchup20]

@@sammypresents 90% of black voters vote for democrats. Have fun having voting away your right for self defense.

[@80srockedguitar]

What should we do? Pay you reparations?

[@benkleschinsky]

Just imagine when Civil Rights Act was passed, this event was only 40 years old.

[@rickjames2.0]

One lie did all that. The tongue is a powerful thing

[@christinecampbell4968]

White lie.... That's why I hate the term white lie because many black people died because of white women's lies.

[@mojojojoplus2]

Not one lie, the lie was just an excuse to do what they already wanted to do. Spark doesn't do anything unless there's already something to burn.

[@ancksunamunja1196]

Proverbs 18:21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue; Those who love to use it will eat its fruitage.

[@treehuggermc1]

It was an excuse to do what they did. They would have done it regardless.

[@lamarmc]

Just like what happened in “Rosewood”

These riots and destruction of black-owned businesses happened all throughout Amerikka. Many whites were jealous, envious and filled with a natural DISDAIN and sheer hatred for persons of color. Unfortunately, we have not learned this lesson and nothing has changed

[@cplcabs]

Something has changed, these days it blacks destroying black and asian (and every other races come to that) businesses

[@stormysocks]

@B G maybe we could have a contest for who's the most oppressed

[@327radar]

And yet women are still not charged for false accusations of rape. SMH

[@Aristocratic13]

Ikr

[@sharonclarke7011]

Yes, they are. When it can be proven, they are charged.

[@beew290]

1 John 5:19 Satan controls the world of mankind. How and why these kind of atrocities still exist is because he has the power to influence imperfect humans to think that their "ungodly" actions are ok. Only Almighty God can and will erase and fix all the evil in the entire world.

[@davidearea242]

@@beew290 -It'd be nice if he got around to it soon, then.

[@RobertBrown-vc9qu]

lots of racism alive today, judging by some of the previous comments. I am white, a native Tulsan and never heard about this event until I was in my early forties. ( I will be 57 on my next birthday ) this needs to be taught in high schools in Oklahoma as part of our history. denial of the past leads to ignorance in the future. race riots and lynchings are a part of American history but unknown to most Americans. Why? as for me; I am ashamed that my birth city has this ugly stain upon it.

[@jayrock7101]

I never heard about this in school

[@WaveGazer]

Neither did I...it took a tv show to bring it to my attention.

[@chel6730]

SummerWave i came form watchmen too. i’m shocked about this

[@fiercequeen2]

@@SentientSingularity wow, thanks for the information. Never knew this, and I agree that it was never taught in school especially high school. I'm in college now but I still don't hear this type of stuff.

[@quentinburns8584]

Absolutely astounded. Landed here from the Guardian newspaper article... This is such a sad story. The lack of condemnation must have been heartbreaking for those Residents. Unimaginable pain and suffering.

[@rolaine733]

We never learned about this in school.

[@MalachiHealey]

Do you want to know what other historical event(s) you didn't get the full story on in history class?

[@donalddunn3429]

I had heard of Black Wall Street, but had not made the connection. I'm here because of Watchmen.

[@User-tn2qd]

Rosewood, Florida...

[@thezdbailey]

My God...en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosewood_massacre

[@juliansearcie1758]

Oh there is more way more unfortunately

[@jamelirodas9909]

Watching after the killing of George Floyd, who else.??

[@jordynsimmons1107]

me

[@reelinreggie6757]

Me

[@matt2534]

I’m here after watching Kimberly Jones.

[@luckycgpluckycgp7473]

Me too binge watching any and every thing on the massacre #EVIL

[@suehowie152]

@@matt2534 Me too..She was powerful..

[@ASMRShay]

But folks out here mad at target getting burned. Miss me with all of that.

[@Dolly351]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@ASMRShay]

@@Clancy192 pretty sure no protesters have murdered anyone. sooooo what's your point?

[@chadbailey30]

I can't believe I had never heard of this before just recently... A whole town wiped out in 1/2 a day, wow.

[@pipedreamism1]

They drop a bomb do some homework

[@robertfreshour6235]

I am appalled by this. I am from Mississippi and have never heard of this. This really upsets me and I am 53 years old. So horrible!,

[@Watkinsstudio]

@Mike Polakowski The white privilege is strong with you...

[@cplcabs]

@@Watkinsstudio there is no such thing as white privilege. You should watch the Rev Jesse Lee Peterson for a bit of clarity

[@dude6417]

@@cplcabs shut the hell up new Hindustan

[@SamoryBa]

Beautifully, and painfully told. Thank you Dr. Anderson. To augment my Nadir-era curricula, I am sharing this with my History and Africana Studies classes this semester. --Dr. S. Livingston, Morehouse College

[@amirasiya07]

For all the old heads...The African-American R&B group the GAP Band(Charlie Wilson), were from Tulsa,Oklahoma and used the acronym “G-A-P” to represent the cross streets that were in downtown Black Wall Street. That gives a whole new meaning to their song “You dropped a bomb on me!”

[@gregorybruton6312]

Black History is not taught in our schools. That should be changed and challenged. Thank you for your sharing this.

[@MrSinEon]

I’m not American so I don’t really know how it works over there but the fact that you guys have a black history month and you also say black history is not taught is so confusing to me

[@shirleybennett8745]

That there are still those who feel we (black people) should move on and get over the issues of past, renders me almost speechless. History like this brings our reality up close and personal. We can't change our peoples past but we can all learn and grow from it. I don't have answers but do know that by sharing history we can learn together how to move forward. Respect for each other is a good place to start.....

[@drinkthebloodofesau7692]

Not gonna happen

[@BighomieCdawg]

right..

[@BighomieCdawg]

There's been no reparations for the 400 years and counting of slavery

[@Laura-sc8ft]

All should move on. I just keep hearing people here going on and on and on about this history to the point it fuels and creates more division among skin color like almost like it was last year. Yes it was horrible the things that happened but in America? One of the first Nations to abolish slavery! God blessed this country and this is like spitting in our creator's face. We should focus on the victory and celebrate to be proud and grateful to be an American for what has been accomplished here. This doesn't show pride in what we are today and the world today is getting a lot messed up. America was this shining star everyone was drawn to and set the example across the world of what freedom use to mean. Even as we face our troubles of today we should all be so so grateful! I kinda blame our history teachers because if they would have taught us back in school more about the world's history of slavery maybe we all learn of the eye-opening account of Barbary Coast slavery, American historians have studied every aspect of enslavement of Africans by whites but have LARGELY ignored enslavement of whites by North Africans. Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters is a carefully researched, clearly written account of what is called “the other slavery,” which flourished during approximately the same period as the trans-Atlantic trade, and which devastated hundreds of European coastal communities. Slavery plays nothing like the central role in the thinking of today’s whites that it does for blacks, but not because it was fleeting or trivial matter. The record of Mediterranean slavery is, indeed, as black as the most tendentious portrayals of American slavery. Going over and over it is oppression in itself. We Must treat each other with the respect one deserves as an individual. Put away the distinction of the color of ones skin .... its long over due for gratefulness that this EVIL has long surpassed the acceptance of masses. I believe you see what you look for. Stop sounding like uneducated people that you are. Be looking at peoples hearts because that is where the true identity of a person lies. During times of slavery it was what it was, the way of life during the times. American slave owners didn't come here and make people slaves, they were already slaves bought and paid for and came here because it was like that all over the world. Not that slavery doesn't still exist in some forms because it does but it isn't going to be completely abolished if there continues to be division instead we fight the good fight against all slavery black or white.

[@omegaprimus923]

Corey Deshawn u don't get none get over it.no reparations for what happened to us Indians so shut up quit begging for a handout

[@ariesalvin8574]

Interesting how Rick and Morty did an episode titled "Lets Watch The Purge" with Cat People that are dressed in 1920s fashion. Then watching the opening Tusla Riots scene on Watchmen I finally made the connection.

[@whimsicalprofessor3963]

Literally never heard about this until today! How easily we rewrite/erase/selectively omit things this horrific and earth-shaking from our history. Please don't let history get lost like this today. Don't silence anyone because they don't believe what you believe. Don't erase the ugly things you've seen in government and in our communities and online (you wipe it out going forward by teaching and correcting). Let's learn from the craziness that has happened recently and 100 years ago and beyond. We must learn...🙏🏾❤️...erasing, silencing, banning, cancelling, deleting doesn't help anything, it just dooms us to repeat the same mistakes 🤦🏾‍♀️

[@horatiohuskisson5471]

Don’t call it a race riot. Call it the Tulsa Massacre

[@jerryw6699]

just like Wounded Knee.

[@Theincompetenthandyman]

great video, i was born and raised in oklahoma and have known about this for many years, it was taught in my high school in the 1980's and also covered in several history classes in college, it is yet another example of a horrible time in our nations history, one that we cannot change, we can only learn from this event and move forward, making the attempt to prevent this kind of hatred from ever poisoning our nation again, it matters not what color your skin is, if you harbor hate in your heart for people of who look different than you simply based on how they appear, you need to get some professional help, there is no excuse for racism, time, history, science, and our own cultural experiences have taught us that much

[@Theincompetenthandyman]

not hardly

[@heatherstone-gaudet3812]

Thank you for sharing. Heartbreaking.

[@SR-dy5zm]

We need this taught in general US history classes.

[@Str8upLaw]

Black progress ...stifled. Makes me sick to my stomach

[@alphazero2005]

Stifling black progress became such a normal thing that now it's baked into the cake.

[@cplcabs]

Well, are you sick about black people stifling black progress these days?

[@QBert904]

cplcabs Quit victim blaming, the brits were no better when it came to taking land that wasn’t theirs, and killing innocent people for nothing other than power and money.

[@cplcabs]

@@QBert904 its not victim blaming, its fact. Black people in the US have what is called affirmative action which gives them a step up the ladder over white people in all aspects such as education and jobs, yet a majority still don't get out of the ghetto so to speak. Try watching the Rev Jessie Lee Peterson to understand more. In the main, Brits traded for land. How do you think such a small country that could be so successful. As an example, India is a huge country and yet it became a colony of the British Empire, if you think that was due to invading it, you should think again. Yes there were some bad incidents, but India was gained through agreements with the Maharajas. Do you think any force the British sent to India could have defeated a whole country today. Compare it to today, when the US which uses advanced weaponry cannot even defeat an enemy that uses RPGs, rifles and pistols? No, the British gained the empire mainly through trade and agreements.

[@suehowie152]

@@QBert904 Nice deflect..

[@chaos703]

You can't downplay the severity of what actually happened in Tulsa, but this is one of the worst, most inaccurate, and exaggerated retellings of what actually happened. The worst part of her version is that she denied the recovery of the community. The Heroes of Greenwood overcame tremendous odds to rebuild the entire community in less than five years. Greenwood reached the height of its prosperity in 1941. The memory of what those people achieved in rebuilding the community is just as big a part of the story.

[@cruzdeleon1888]

Ok captain obvious

[@lylelookingbill6606]

Tulsa Okla lies upon lands that were given to the Mvskoke (Muskogee) and Cherokee native tribes under treaty after they had been removed from their indigenous homelands in the Southeastern US. these new lands included much of what is now eastern Oklahoma. These lands were given to the Native peoples of the Creek (Mvskoke) and Cherokee tribes for time and all eternity in the early 1830s, by all rights there should have been no white nor black people here to be fighting with each other. Yes a few black folks were killed and yes a few whites folks were killed in the riot. Yet no black or white folks would have been harmed in any way in Tulsa in 1921 if they had not murdered and burnt out the thousands of Natives that were rightfully here to begin with. When oil was found under the land that had been given to the Creeks and Cherokee the treaties though still binding were discarded and Oil men of both white and black races flooded into what is now Tulsa. Burning out and killing any Indians that would not move aside and bow to the stream of 'progress.' Before you shed tears or beat your chest for less than a few hundred black folks, think about the thousands of indians that were killed in the 50 some odd years prior to the 1921 riot as well as the thousands that were killed before and during the 1830s removal to Oklahoma. If those black folks hadn't violated the treaties they wouldn't have been here to be involved in any race riot in 1921.

[@dailynews1671]

I don’t ever remember this being taught in school, It probably was I just don’t remember. This is so heartbreaking, actually heartbreaking doesn’t even describe what I’m feeling listening to this brief history lesson, it indescribable.

[@jamesmccullough6402]

I found the video very eye-opening, and I'm going to show it to my students. But, I was wondering if there isn't a better picture that could be inserted in the video where it talks about what a thriving area it was. The image that is shown appears to be from the 1940s rather than the 1910s or early 1920s.

[@perryberrie]

Such an atrocity. Thank you for sharing the history.

[@sammypresents]

WTF? I never heard about this until now.

[@mukelorata2100]

moonglare It’s because they were trying to erase this from the history. Apparently, they did a good job so far. Imagine what would happen if black people who did the massacre. They would make you remember it til this day just like 911 and probably they would make the massacre as a justification of their racism.

[@HenryLowery1]

I'm writing a screenplay and it's going to be a movie series regarding Black Wall Street. A movie producer friend of mine is going to produce it. I need to get in touch with Carol Anderson. I've been doing a lot of research on this. I'm trying to gather as much info. as possible. Is there a way to contact her?

[@04ohgolly1]

Yeah..Twitter, Facebook..

[@Morsoth]

Very good video, thanks for the mini documentary. HBO's Watchmen is what started my curiosity about that tragic event.

[@TheSpadre]

This lady is embellishing the story of the elevator incident somewhat from other accounts that I have read.

[@jamieryall8341]

I accept the horrible things we whites did to black folks in America's history & I'm appalled by & ashamed of it. I try to be the best human being I can be today to treat everyone I touch with the respect & love we all deserve.

[@jam5533]

Regardless of what your racial background is, just try to be an decent or kind human and try not to make someone's life hell. You don't have to feel guilty of something you didn't do, but I do understand what you mean by being the same race as someone who was downright disgusting and cruel. Actions done by individuals doesn't mean whether one race or another is good or bad though. Let's just try to prevent history repeat itself like this. Humans aren't all good nor bad and even those who had done or partaken in horrible acts are still human at the end of the day. It's sickening how individual(s) had done cruel, horrible, horrific, disgusting, and many other synonyms of acts, but you can't stop or prevent something like that from happening again by yourself!

[@jenniferj6580]

Thank you Jamie for saying that. It was the same with Indigenous people who lived and thrived here for thousands of years, genocide. America has a bloody history that is perpetuated all over the world to this day.

[@traceytatum165]

That lady lied, just like Emmit Teal was lied on..

[@cplcabs]

The lady in the video? Yep

[@suehowie152]

Emmet Till..

[@sbrecke1507]

@@melvinmerkelhopper5752 Emmett Till was a 14 year old child, murdered by racist 😥

[@davidkulikowski1840]

Even back then there was an ELEVATOR KAREN.

[@jenniferj6580]

Exactly

[@04ohgolly1]

I mean you didn't lie..

[@ItzIceyVR]

what

[@marsco25177]

The accounts of Dick Rowland and Sara Page vary widely. According to his adopted mother he lost his footing and stepped on her foot. she screamed and repeatedly hit him in the head with her purse. he held her arms to get her to stop. she screamed "ive been assaulted" today it is the most detailed account of the elevator. needless to say it was not grounds for more than 300 deaths, and 10,000 left homeless.

[@marsco25177]

Huh? I dont understand your reply. The “facts” on the elevator was out but not true. Tulsa Tribune wrote a fake article completely fabricating the events and demanded the public to hang him on their own. Thousands gathered agitated and pissed at the courthouse demanding he be handed over. A white guy fought a black guy over a gun. In the struggle a bullet was fired. Then everyone started shooting. Your reply reads as if you believe whites were killed first. This was 100% a case of whites attacking. Some whites were killed as they killed hundreds of blacks. The aggressors are the whites in this case.

[@marsco25177]

A racist Newspaper not reporting the black deaths doesn’t make it factual 100 years later. Just 9 years earlier newspapers said the Titanic did not sink and that all were saved. The tulsa Tribune and Tulsa world knowingly pushed sensationalized information. This is why there are zero photos of dead whites today yet whites all have tombstones. Yet dozens of photos of dead blacks with zero tombstones.

[@Shafferelli]

Why is there a photograph (4:05) from 1950 when describing Greenwood in 1921?

[@Medraut00]

thanks for this review i needed more info

[@1Charioteer]

Thanks Watchmen. Had never heard of this. Great explanation here. Thank you.

[@khadijafarah]

I remember learning this in my school but she has such passion about it that I wished I learned it from her.

[@pepoppins]

Why have I never heard of this before? Unreal!

[@VeroLoui]

I really want to share this video on my Facebook page. Would it be a problem to post the video and give credit to Emory University?

[@madot09]

It took watchmen for people to notice this massacre on American soil sad, I was shocked it was in there.

[@brogandaugherty-kelly1062]

It is so disgusting that we do not hear this story!!

[@ZamsadaZombie]

So we bombed our own people??

[@mulattoraver]

When I first heard about this, I was shocked. At the same time, I can’t help but ask, what else happened that is not being talked about yet?

[@patrickh.1400]

How did she not even know that the girl in the elevator was the Elevator Operator? She said, "I believe". That's a critical part of the event and she didn't even know that. Strange.

[@ddgs07]

They're demons!!

[@extraterrestrealthecoppere4704]

@@kylebaker3616 ....and moved somewhere else 2 continue their devilish behavior on the so called black people there 🤨

[@areskoa4669]

Tyrah, if white people were demons that hated black people then they would of killed every black person in the world.

[@Helljumper7200]

Ares Koa Doesn’t make sense. Fact is, white people used the name of JESUS to commit these atrocities.

[@xxblazxerxx2001]

@@areskoa4669 they hanged oeolle on trees burn children alive and fed their babies to alligators..if that's not a people that's the seed of satan then i don't kniw what is.

[@furqanmahdi8936]

Malcolm x traded in bed sheets for blue suits

[@RowdIIBaby01]

We African Americans would get over what they did in the past if it wasn't still happening today... Enough said

[@RowdIIBaby01]

+TOgundeji TOgundeji really because it's true? Right no the ignorant people are the ones that condone such behavior.. Enough said.

[@jashuacolbert6849]

Rem Dusad what your mouth boy

[@jessicaflowers6795]

RowdIIBaby01 oh stfu everytime we get over it you drag us down like in tulsa tf

[@PrettyGurlTyrah]

Everything is a repeat just put in a different way the United States is just like the Babylonian towers

[@cplcabs]

The problem is that today it is African Americans that are destroying African American communities and businesses. Watch the Rev Jesse lee Peterson for some clarity.

[@FoylesWart]

Professor Carol Anderson gives a wonderfully impassioned talk here. Thank you for uploading.

[@Watkinsstudio]

@Mike Polakowski Oops, your white privilege is showing...

[@ladytube64]

Good grief !!!!!! Sad is not the word for this....I have no words...

[@MrGolddenboy]

Wow I'm 50 years old and this is the first time I have ever heard of this .I now see why it is important to talk about it and remember this as well as keep historical information of it alive . As it's a part of history that all white people should be ashamed of and never be allowed to forget. No wonder black Americans are so upset. And harbor hatred for us if I were black I would be livid . Omg .

[@thescribe3184]

People don't want to hear the truth. I've been telling people for years the CIA was involved in drug trafficking during the '80s. The Government put these drugs in the black community and went on a media campaign to make blacks the face of drugs and crime in America. Harsh anti-drug laws were created and a lot of people got 10 - 20-year jail sentences for being addicted to very drug the CIA was flying into the country. Nobody wanted to hear that. All they wanted to hear about was how great a guy Ronald Reagan was was.

[@beverleybrangman2191]

This is all new to me, but very indicative of the hatred, violence and evil which has been perpetrated against black Americans who were brought to America as slaves generations ago. It makes me weep. Justice was never served, but there is a God who has a day of reckoning, when even the Secret things will be exposed, and judged by a righteous judgment.

[@dieselphiend]

Pretty hard to believe that black Americans had more economic opportunities in 1921.

[@richild3967]

Of course white washed history would have you believe that. Blacks have been prosperous throughout history but of course in a racist system like the US they couldn’t allow that to last long. The problem with Tulsa was that it showed black wealth. Whites are happy for black athletes and rappers to have money and go and marry white women and squander it but God forbid they pump that accumulated wealth to exclusive black communities well then it will be Tulsa 2.0

[@latashaceasar6166]

This is so sad. I hope they make a movie about this.

[@SKPainify]

Guess what...

[@murtadhaalkenani3876]

The Moment when you saw it on watchmen and said : Yeah that Alternative History from a Novel , and the other moment when you realized it was true .

[@thanos2830]

This a massacre or an act of terrorism not a riot

[@benji7587]

Some of her comments are not factual but overall her narrative is close to the historical sequence of events and characters involved and their actions.

[@MichelleBeahm]

What was the argument over in the elevator?

[@michelfug]

This professor knows how to tell a story

[@PHOENIXQ2024]

“And still I RISE!”

[@eileenmacdougall8945]

That was my first thought too, not a riot but a massacre. Interesting as heck that oil was found in this area about the same time.

[@rockin335]

To have such hate and insecurity and do such a act of Terrorism is unspeakable and Pathetic.

[@bunnymedia7564]

It’s a shame that you still call this national terrorism in America a “riot”

[@MalachiHealey]

Oh you mean the "massacre" that first started with no lynched black man, and the death of 10 whites? That one with not one iota of proof of purported planes dropping bombs. In 1921. 1921. Are you kidding me? You honestly bought that planes would be dropping bombs with any efficacy on urban zones. In Tulsa. In 1921?

[@rayminthecat]

Bombs from planes. Decapitation. I didn't know about the details. If there is a God I hope for justice.

[@Daytona955™]

Doesn't really sound like a riot to me more an attempt to obliterate an area, are there any respected books on this ?

[@Eyedbythetiger]

She said there were photos of aircraft strafings?

[@awolf.8557]

First lie, she said he was a messenger. He was a shoe shine man. According to the official investigation, was using the bathroom. How does she know, if he bumped in to her. She was not there ?

[@reginahamilton982]

I'm crying.... these were my great grandparents & my grandparents... "why why do they hate us so much" this is so painful... how dare the white race tell us to "forget about it" my heart hurts..... these were my grandparents....

[@stevenseagal9911]

We dont hate you. That wasnt us, just like it wasnt you that it happened to. I wouldnt go as far as telling you to forget about it, but i will certainly object to the notion that the color of my skin implements me into such a thing, or any of my ancestors. Btw, most people telling you to get over it are just sick of your racist views towards them, or you trying to project racism on them because racists did racist things 100 years ago and happen to share the same skin color as them.

[@___---__]

This bogus title has been online for 12 years now? Thanks for the heads up, Emory.

[@rickuyeda4818]

Those planes were used to spray crops. What was dropped was homemade napalm. Strafing makes it sound like the military.

[@rr7firefly]

Elevator operator descendents = Central Park Karen and BBQ Betty.

[@MistyAdana]

Dammed if you build your community, dammed if you don't. The bottom line is more than on the surface.

[@namastenation4890]

He "bumped" into her on the elevator? It's not improbable that he assaulted her. That is the determining factor of wether justice was right or not. And that factor is something that nobody can say for sure.

[@marioalbertomendozamunoz4676]

The Tulsa race massacre commission (bipartisan) never found a written statement from the elevator operator girl, so from where the professor took that the girl yelled "rape !!"

[@lylelookingbill6606]

Tulsa Okla lies upon lands that were given to the Mvskoke (Muskogee) and Cherokee native tribes under treaty after they had been removed from their indigenous homelands in the Southeastern US. these new lands included much of what is now eastern Oklahoma. These lands were given to the Native peoples of the Creek (Mvskoke) and Cherokee tribes for time and all eternity in the early 1830s, by all rights there should have been no white nor black people here to be fighting with each other. Yes a few black folks were killed and yes a few whites folks were killed in the riot. Yet no black or white folks would have been harmed in any way in Tulsa in 1921 if they had not murdered and burnt out the thousands of Natives that were rightfully here to begin with. When oil was found under the land that had been given to the Creeks and Cherokee the treaties though still binding were discarded and Oil men of both white and black races flooded into what is now Tulsa. Burning out and killing any Indians that would not move aside and bow to the stream of 'progress.' Before you shed tears or beat your chest for less than a few hundred black folks, think about the thousands of indians that were killed in the 50 some odd years prior to the 1921 riot as well as the thousands that were killed before and during the 1830s removal to Oklahoma. If those black folks hadn't violated the treaties they wouldn't have been here to be involved in any race riot in 1921.

[@jedilee]

I want to take a class from this prof so bad!

[@kamhyde40]

I'm crying. She speaks with so much clarity about the factors that allowed this genocide to be carried out. Amazing

[@lylelookingbill6606]

Tulsa Okla lies upon lands that were given to the Mvskoke (Muskogee) and Cherokee native tribes under treaty after they had been removed from their indigenous homelands in the Southeastern US. these new lands included much of what is now eastern Oklahoma. These lands were given to the Native peoples of the Creek (Mvskoke) and Cherokee tribes for time and all eternity in the early 1830s, by all rights there should have been no white nor black people here to be fighting with each other. Yes a few black folks were killed and yes a few whites folks were killed in the riot. Yet no black or white folks would have been harmed in any way in Tulsa in 1921 if they had not murdered and burnt out the thousands of Natives that were rightfully here to begin with. When oil was found under the land that had been given to the Creeks and Cherokee the treaties though still binding were discarded and Oil men of both white and black races flooded into what is now Tulsa. Burning out and killing any Indians that would not move aside and bow to the stream of 'progress.' Before you shed tears or beat your chest for less than a few hundred black folks, think about the thousands of indians that were killed in the 50 some odd years prior to the 1921 riot as well as the thousands that were killed before and during the 1830s removal to Oklahoma. If those black folks hadn't violated the treaties they wouldn't have been here to be involved in any race riot in 1921.

[@reefb1277]

Learned about this and The Rosewood massacre in 9th grade back in 84. My English teacher at the time who was an ex- Black Panther member told 3 of my friends and myself about both incidents. He said I have to give y’all the real history of us that’s not in these text books!!!

[@kimswhims8435]

Reading an excellent book called Red at The Bone by Jacqueline Woodson and the Tulsa massacre is mentioned as having a generational impact. First time I'd heard of it. So came looking for more info.

[@audiovisual51]

>literally firebomb raided an entire city >"riot"

[@722Moo]

>burned down 150 businesses in minneapolis >"peaceful protest"

[@BowdowntoAnnaConda]

@@722Moo the fact that you felt attacked by a comment that stated that this wasn’t a riot is so indicative of your character. let me guess, white guilt? go away nobody likes you.

[@JC-li8kk]

@@BowdowntoAnnaConda and you feeling attacked by a comment that states burning down businesses isn’t a peaceful protest says what about you?

[@chasingdreams2233]

What riot, it was a massacre

[@gunnergrrl]

@Mike Polakowski troll

[@Watkinsstudio]

@Mike Polakowski You're a butthurt racist troll who realizes all the more that you're just a punchline for jokes. Carry on while we laugh at you.

[@uheartkhadidi]

It’s crazy how I’m a freshman in high school and have yet to go into the depth of racism in our history.

[@tonycrawford8147]

omg!! never even this knew this happened till today. this oughta be taught in schools

[@Watkinsstudio]

@Blasphy B You've got a tear in your white sheet there...

[@MultiDiceman]

This is apart of history they should really implement this in curriculum without altering it like they like to do with everything else to favor their own agenda.

[@repentorperish6414]

Revelation 21:8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone. MURDERERS & LIARS

[@nikolemarek9201]

So I’m watching this video because I was assigned a reading by my professor. The book I’m reading gives some more information and both the video and book anger me on how people could do this just because of one little instance it angers me. If you’re interested in knowing a little more and reading accounts of people who experienced this Race Riot I definitely recommend it, it’s called “The Burning” by Tim Madigan

[@dewayneweaver2744]

The official death toll is 39, 13 white vs.26 black. Note in Arkansas there were undisputed black casualties in the hundreds covering an area that included 3 rural counties.