Over the course of 18 hours, white mobs destroyed more than 1,000 homes and businesses during the Tulsa Race Riot. They set fire to schools, churches, libraries, and movie theaters, leveling entire city blocks.hide captionLibrary of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, American National Red Cross Collection
When Olivia Hooker was 6 and at home with her family in Tulsa, Okla., a group of white men came through the backyard carrying torches.When Olivia Hooker was 6 and at home with her family in Tulsa, Okla., a group of white men came through the backyard carrying torches.,"trying to remember to keep quiet, so they wouldn't know we were there."
"My father's store was destroyed," Hooker says."There was nothing left but one big safe. It was so big they couldn't carry it away, so they had to leave it — in the middle of the rubble."
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I get so tired of people complaining about npr fueling racism. If you forget the past you’re doomed to repeat it. And George Floyd might not have been a whole town but his life mattered damn it!!!
'His father had been getting up every fifteen minutes to look out the window throughout the night. There was an orange glow over the houses behind them and shots fired with increasing regularity as the night crept toward morning.' Read more at
What a shame!
How does posting something like this help right now?! Quit inflaming violence!!!!!!!! 😡
How is this relevant?
TurnoverMask How is it that this awful, huge race riot was never mentioned in my several US history courses? What other significant stories are 'forgotten' or overlooked in out high school & college textbooks?
So is this an attempt to mislead people into thinking the tweet is about something current? The white people of that time were KKK, Democrats - the same ones who rioted then are your bosses today.
CLOSE THE YEARBOOK OF DIVISION. NPR, if you arent part of the solution. YOU ARE THE PROBLEM. JusticeForGeorge
My Oldest Son and Granddaughter Marched Today, in a Peaceful Protest to Commemorate the 99th Year of the Tulsa Race RIOTS.👊🏾✊🏾 It was BEAUTIFUL & PEACEFUL Until it was NOT......People coming to PURPOSELY Cause Division and Friction, On THIS Day.😑😑😑
Evil comes in a variety of shades. It's all the same.
Even though no one has been able to show that 100's were killed and no mention how many whites were killed during this
The more things change the more they stay the same
She was 82 in 1997 when she formed the Tulsa Race Riot Commission to investigate the massacre and make a case for reparations.
Now Antifa and BLM are doing the same.
Is this supposed to be n*****'s revenge? LMFAO
RadioDiaries That was such a sad, sad day. It made me sick when I learned about this (and I certainly didn’t learn it in school).
Wow, dont want to cover the real news of who is luting and why FakeNews LAMESTREAMMEDIA
DoubleEagle49 ... oh that’s rich, oh right you’re only trying to help. Most humans are weak.
Lisa Iversen, Director of Center for Ancestral Blueprints, talks about collective historic trauma & this week’s protests & how anniversaries of trauma are opportunity to address invisible histories our country hasn't acknowledged.
Kymon5 DeliaBa21 Thanks for the info kimmy.
We never learn this in school. Only about manifest destiny and how Lincoln saved the blacks from slavery (which wasn't that bad), then everything was completely 100% ok for black people (according to the white, conservative teacher/textbook). Thanks for sharing NPR.
issybonomo21 show this to your mom. It’s what I was talking about last night.
Recognition of history, regardless of how horrific, is necessary. However, to raise these this, at this particular time, is imprudent and potentially incendiary. Probably more appropriate would be to compare today’s US political atmosphere to 30’s Germany.
Justifying evil with evil. The US is now integrated, it has political leaders of all colors, religions and ethnic groups. Cops that are criminals are being investigated, prosecuted and sent to prison. It is not 1921, lets celebrate and continue the progress and unity.
Is the intent of this article to justify the riots, the pillaging and violence that's happening today? Most of the violence was not committed by BLM protesting. It is Antifa.
Why does it feel like you're enjoying these riots?
DanHoranOFM Ms. Hooker passed away November 21, 2018, six months after the publication of this article.
For the life of me I don’t understand why insecure racist troll NPR to no end, good article BTW my donation to NPR is a pleasure and essential
Yet when a young beautiful White girl such as Brittanee is kidnapped, gang-raped for days, shot and fed to alligators by black MOB, the media continues to make excuses for black violence, blaming racist White people as the cause of their monstrous behavior
Everyone has cameras these days. Everyone. Please post pictures of these 'white mobs'. Expose these people. Video footage would be great. Shouldn't be too hard to post pics and videos. Expose these white mobs!!! I'll hang up and listen.
This will definitely being down the levels of anger and tension. Kudos, NPR. You're doing your part to bring peace to American streets.
History isn't a subject racist whites like to discuss
Gonna reach back to 1921 to piss people off....... stop it
Really scraping the pot to fuel race wars, NPR.
Despite all the crime statistics, NPR wants you to believe that black people are the REAL victims!
why are you trying to insight more violence? You’re basically saying that all white people are racist and evil. What we need now is for everyone to love everyone else.
And it seems he is witnessing the same thing across the country all over again. Outside actors stepping into a legitimate peaceful protest and violently assaulting Americans. Nixon was a peace-nick compared to those in power today. And how do we stop Republicans now?!
When white people went on a murder spree and wiped out a whole entire town of African Americans. There's a mass grave there until this very day and it was the police who led the riot. Think about that
This story has been brought forward for what purpose & agenda? Mobs are destructive? Were police involved. Lesson and/or similarity to mixed mobs now destroying & burning down own businesses & community for overly aggressive brutal arrest by a cop causing death of a black man?
Never once in my 12 years of public education was I told or educated about what happened in Tulsa. One whole month every year about black history and somehow it just never came up.
only NATION PROPAGANDA RADIO would push this bull chit
this story isn’t told enough 😔😢
Read more about insurgency, its definition, its tactics, and its goals. The media, as usual is spinning the story in a direction to divide our country and supporting the enemy that is trying to destroy us as a nation. Dont let them.
What is going on today is a far different scenario than in 1921. Today, we have an insurgency happening, a paid and organized group of anarchists with the sole purpose of destroying our country. It has nothing to do with protesting this unfortunate killing of a black man.
Provoking more hate isn’t the answer
Is this some sort of 100-year moral equivalence barometer?
Today is the anniversary of that display of brutality
this is helpful thanks
GET IT RIGHT!!! ANTIFA set fire to peoples homes... NPR is fake news and you always will be.
Yea, terrorist Antifa. Call it by name.
Lmao a bunch of African terrorist who protected rapist got their due
's way of justifying these riots. 😒
See that NPR is pushing for another night of destruction and mayhem. You are terrible people.
God bless her.🙏🏽❤️ We have so far yet to go.😢💔 wakeupyourheart allonepeople justiceforall eliminateprejudice oneness OneHumanity
And this information is available, now. Not last week, but now.
And now, blacks are burning down their own neighborhoods.
Great timing!
😭😡
Anybody who says American is a beacon on a hill can just shut the fuck up. This is the kind of systematic oppression that has been in our society since we were created. It still goes on today and the anger you see now is because it hasn't changed.
Fire need a little stoking this afternoon?
as we ALL know: two wrongs make a right i'm glad i could depend on more divisiveness from NPR. you never let me down.
White Antifa thug paying protesters to vandalize.
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