Three survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre made dramatic appeals to lawmakers for reparations and acknowledgment ahead of its 100th anniversary.TULSA, Okla. -- On a recent Sunday, Ernestine Alpha Gibbs returned to Vernon African Methodist Episcopal Church.
Not that the Gibbs family had it easy. And not that Black Tulsa ever really recovered from the devastation that took place 100 years ago, when nearly every structure in Greenwood, the fabled Black Wall Street, was flattened -- aside from Vernon AME. But down on Black Wall Street — derided by whites as “Little Africa” or “N——-town” — Black workers spent their earnings in a bustling, booming city within a city. Black-owned grocery stores, soda fountains, cafés, barbershops, a movie theater, music venues, cigar and billiard parlors, tailors and dry cleaners, rooming houses and rental properties: Greenwood had it.
Rowland was arrested. A white mob gathered outside of the jail. Word that some in the mob intended to kidnap and lynch Rowland made it to Greenwood, where two dozen Black men had armed themselves and arrived at the jail to aid the sheriff in protecting the prisoner. More than 35 city blocks were leveled, an estimated 191 businesses were destroyed, and roughly 10,000 Black residents were displaced from the neighborhood where they’d lived, learned, played, worked and prospered.
Tulsa Star publisher Andrew J. Smitherman lost everything, except for the metal printing presses that didn’t melt in the fires at his newspaper’s offices. Today, some of his descendants wonder what could have been, if the mob had never destroyed the Smitherman family business. “It wasn’t a very large office, so I’d often see the bills,” said his grandson, William Dozier, who worked there as a boy. “Many of them were marked past due. We didn’t make a lot of money. He wasn’t able to pass any money down to his daughters, although he loved them dearly.”After the fires in Greenwood were extinguished, the bodies buried in unmarked mass graves, and the survivors scattered, insurance companies denied most Black victims’ loss claims totaling an estimated $1.8 million.
Interstate 244 dissects the neighborhood like a Berlin wall. But it is easy for visitors to miss the engraved metal markers at their feet, indicating the location of a business destroyed in the massacre and whether it had ever reopened.“I’ve read every book, every document, every court record that you can possibly think of that tells the story of what happened in 1921,” Amusan told the tour group in mid-April. “But none of them did real justice. This is sacred land, but it’s also a crime scene.
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Weird way to say murdered there
300 Black people were Murdered by White Supremacist for no reason and destroyed what could’ve been a safe place to live in the future*********** TERRORISM
That passive voice there? That’s part of why we’re still having problems. They were murdered. Because of their skin color.
Murdered by racists would be more accurate
MSM are this country’s biggest enemies.
...who wrote this and who approved it? Yikes.
They didn’t just simple die, they were murdered!!! Do better
You mean 300 were murdered.
Is their a current black wall street?
Easily the biggest tragedy that is put completely under wraps in schools. I learned about the trail of tears and internment camps, it took APUSH to actually learn anything about Tulsa
200 hundred years ago, the massacre of NATIVE American Indians occurred in Wounded Knee, it was to eliminate them and steal their land. We should return it to make reparations.
I watched DREAMLAND las night this show was magnificent. Every American needs to learn these Historical facts. These lessons must be taught to all children today so this horror is ever repeated or forgotten. God bless their souls.
YOUR LANGUAGE IS INSULTING! END WHITE VIOLENCE AGAINST BLACK BODIES! END WVABB!!!!
300 people were TERRORIZED, MURDERED, BEATEN and HUNTED!
300 people died of mysterious causes...
Died? Or were murdered?
They died? 300 innocent Black women, children and men were murdered by white domestic terrorists. The murders were never prosecuted and held accountable. They went on with their lives and lies. TELL THE DAMN TRUTH!
theRealJayDub2 This is sad people don’t know about this and it’s not taught in schools...This is apart of history yet they keep it covered up...blacks where thriving had there own businesses, doctors and even had their own currency all taken away by white supremacy😩😩😩😩
How does a “Massacre destroy” anything? It is not an element like water or fire. A massacre is done to someone by someone. This is a despicable tweet. It does everything to protect white people and ignore the very thing done to blacks: Murdered by a massacre.
White people reporting this shit. 300 people were murdered by white racists
People were murdered, they didn’t just die
“People died”? You mean “murdered” by white supremacists.
America is in debt to Black People and y'all have not paid us back. When will that be a headline?
This is our history and must be taught in all schools
This should’ve been followed with an apology over how diluted this post was in its perpetuation of racism by its moderacy
Fix the post, they were MURDERED.
“300 Black Citizens were murdered by whyte people”
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The ACT OF WHITE RACIAL HATE AND TERRORISM! GET IT RIGHT! THE CAUCASITY!
since kerosene burns at 1800 degrees, it is more likely the bodies were stacked in the largest brick buildings, which were specifically targeted by the air planes. Meaning there is zero left of those bodies. Anything which might have been left, buildings were built overtop.
You make it sound like they just up and died of nothing for no reason. They were murdered by white mobs. The massacre didn't destroy property, the white mobs destroyed property. Seriously, isn't it about time the media got this right?
They 'died'? You mean they were murdered?
I hope we can one day discover a racial atrocity that happened many years ago on 12/25 and then be able to hijack Christmas too...
Don't want to say 'white people' anywhere in that?
They didn’t DIE, they were MURDERED. By angry white people!
Shame on whoever wrote this whitewashed tweet. TulsaMassacre TulsaRaceMassacre
I do not care
So on the day we should be honoring those that helped to make this country what it is, we get more racist shit from CNN and the rest of the leftist media
*on this day black women, children and men were all unjustifiably murdered by a white mob which was aided by the US govenment
*were murdered
They just died, huh? Strange how that happened at the same time they were being massacred.
Justice delayed is justice denied. The newspaper people who inflamed the public and probably none of the murders will ever be punished. Community wealth was destroyed. Other than some looting, there weren't even stolen valuables to recover.
Wow the passive voice in this is disgusting
If you were going to report it like this-why did you even bother? Truths are uncomfortable, but you have to tell them. 300 Black people murdered by white violence. A community decimated and the erosion of generational wealth for survivors and their descendants.
They were murdered.
You make it sound like violence broke out and 300 people died of shock and surprise, and not at all from being hunted and shot by white people. Yknow they formed a fucking milita, surveyed it from the air and set out brigades to stop people leaving. 'Died,' my arse.
This is why we can't erase history 😢
So we’re suddenly concerned with history ?
Black people died. Geez abc
How much work did you do to avoid saying while people did this?
50 years from now, something will spark another cry for equal rights. Y’all will March n protest n scream n shout but in the end you’ll be given a pacifier and return to your homes, work, studies, having acquired little. Imagine though, the power if everyone just went home?
white people murdered black people. get it right
Editors getting ready to change the headline to passive voice
RT. ava CORRECTED: On this day, 100 years ago, white mobs terrorized, tortured and murdered 300 Black people in one of the biggest attacks of racial violence in American history.
Really....say no to racism.... mental slavery
Whitewashing history again I see. We know better! Be truthful and tell it like it was...they were murdered by white people!
They didn't just die they were murdered as were countless other Blacks in other areas over a several year period.
Hey ABC, can we get some ACCURACY please The Tulsa MURDERS were committed by mobs of WHITES who tortured and murdered men, women, and children on this day 100 years ago. They were 100% DOMESTIC TERRORISTS and should BE CALLED SUCH!
Change the passive language to active. 'Violent white mob brutally slaughtered hundreds of black people.' There were so many bodies they couldn't count them all.
Correct this tweet. They didn’t died. They were murdered.
300 people just “died”? I wonder how, who killed them? Guess we’ll never know.
ummm.. white people ATTACKED, MURDERED, and BURNED DOWN Black folks who were minding their own business and living their lives.. do NOT not say who did what to whom.
why haven't you fixed this headline? Newspaper media was part of the the fuel for the incident 100 years ago, and you all keep refusing to learn the lesson that choice of words matters. You need to add that the government aided, abetted, and turned a blind eye as well.
did the 1921 Wall Street Massacre destroy 35 blocks of a predominantly black neighborhood or... was it maybe a bunch of racist white snowflakes
Close, yet so far away.
This is some passive voiced bullshit. It was obfuscated for decades, and you ABC are still doing that obfuscating.
Mind providing a little more detail on who exactly it was who died and who exactly it was who murdered those people
On this day 100 years ago, 300 people were murdered by white mobs. They didn't suddenly drop dead.
Some sh•t just doesn't change Do better, !
Nice use of passive voice there
They died? Like they just died out of thin air? That’s crazy! Has science provided us with any answers as to why 300 blacks people just up and died out of nowhere for no reason whatsoever?!?! We just get to the bottom of this!!!!!!
That's quite the passive language there.
They were murdered, .
How very sad. Human Beings can do such harm to one another 💔
Def misspelled “murdered”
The misplacement of responsibility in this sentence is appalling.
“Died'. They were murdered by a white mob in a mass lynching. They didn't all just keel over.
Do you mean murdered* ? Wording matters, friends.
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The sanitised version, I see
hmm... but HOW DID THEY DIE ABC NEWS?
How did you guys get 300? I cant find a source for this. Expect in one part of the 2001 comission which as of yet is unsubstantiated.
OR, instead of putting it in passive terms, you could just go active & say it: mobs of white people killed black people.
why yall bringing up the past?
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A homeless man in New York attacked a policewoman during a search
That eager to overshadow Memorial Day huh?
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