Watch: Tulsa Massacre Gravesite Unearthed In Dramatic Clip From NatGeo, Trilogy Films, Trailblazer Studios Doc ‘Rise Again: Tulsa And The Red Summer’

One hundred years have passed since a white mob attacked the prosperous African-American neighborhood of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma, burning it to the ground and killing as many as 300 Black people.

Despite the passage of a century, it has only been recently that even a limited reckoning with the Tulsa Race Massacre has occurred. Last week, excavation of a Black potter’s field within the Oaklawn Cemetery in Tulsa revealed evidence of 15 graves that may contain remains of massacre victims. But it required a long struggle just convincing Tulsa city officials to permit digs in search of victims of one of the worst spasms of racial violence in American history.

, directed by Dawn Porter and produced by Porter’s Trilogy Films and Trailblazer Studios, in association with National Geographic Studios. The film premieres Friday on National Geographic and becomes available for streaming on Hulu the next day, Saturday, June 19, Juneteenth, the holiday commemorating the day in 1865 when enslaved Black people in Texas belatedly learned of their emancipation.

The film closely follows the Washington Post’s DeNeen Brown as she reports on the Tulsa Massacre, the search for mass graves, and the fraught subject of reparations for the hideous crime that occurred.“[The film] was internally developed at Nat Geo Studios,” executive producer Ashleigh Di Tonto, SVP of development at Trailblazer Studios, tells Deadline. “Things moved quickly after [NatGeo’s] Chris Weber attached Dawn and then asked us to come on board.

The documentary places the Tulsa horror in the context of the “Red Summer,” a period of years after the end of World War I when white supremacist-led mob violence erupted in Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, Washington, D.C., Chicago, and other cities and towns.

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