#Tulsa Race Riot

[mermazeablaze]

I thought some of my Tumblr mutuals would be interested to see this article.

Viola Ford Fletcher, aged 109, just published a memoir 'Don't Let Them Bury My Story' about her experience during the Greenwood/Tulsa Massacre. It will be available for purchase August 15th.

"Her memoir, “Don’t Let Them Bury My Story,” is a call to action for readers to pursue truth, justice and reconciliation no matter how long it takes. Written with graphic details of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre that she witnessed at age seven, Fletcher said she hoped to preserve a narrative of events that was nearly lost to a lack of acknowledgement from mainstream historians and political leaders.

The questions I had then remain to this day,” Fletcher writes in the book. “How could you just give a mob of violent, crazed, racist people a bunch of deadly weapons and allow them — no, encourage them — to go out and kill innocent Black folks and demolish a whole community?”

“As it turns out, we were victims of a lie,” she writes.

Fletcher notes in her memoir just how much history she has lived through — from several virus outbreaks preceding the coronavirus pandemic, to the Great Depression of 1929 and the Great Recession of 2008 to every war and international conflict of the last seven decades. She has watched the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. lead the national Civil Rights Movement, seen the historic election of former President Barack Obama and witnessed the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement."

#Tulsa Race Massacre #Tulsa Race Riot #Greenwood #Black Wall Street #1921 #Oklahoma #Viola Ford Fletcher #Don't Let Them Bury My Story #Book #Memoir #Novel #Library #History #Black Lives Matter #BLM

[dailyhistoryposts]

On This Day In History

May 31st, 1921: The Tulsa Race Massacre (the Black Wall Street massacre) takes place.

Mobs of White residents in Tulsa, Oklahoma attacked the center of Black financial success in the United States. While different sources give different numbers, it ended with at least 39 dead (but potentially as many as 300), 800 people admitted to hospitals, and 6,000 Black people interned.

Deliberate property damage left about 10,000 Black people homeless and with about $2.25 million in property damage (2021 equivalent is $34.18 million).

The violence was supposedly sudden and in reaction to a Black man shooting an elderly White man, however, it has since been proven that a conspiracy between the city and the White mob deliberately provoked an excuse for violence.

#history #world history #american history #tulsa race massacre #black history #tw racism #tw death #oklahoma history #racial violence #racism #tulsa #tulsa race riot #black wall street #american race relations #terrorism #racial terrorism

[duranduratulsa]

On this day in 1921...the Tulsa Race Massacre begins. #history #disaster #tragedy #horror #TulsaRaceMassacre #tulsaraceriot #tulsa #oklahoma #tulsaoklahoma

#history #disaster #tragedy #horror #tulsa race massacre #tulsa race riot #tulsa oklahoma #oklahoma #tulsa

[metalheadsforblacklivesmatter]

-fae

#black lives matter #blm #black lives still matter #tulsa race massacre #tulsa riots

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#tulsa oklahoma #black tumblr #race riots #tulsa #black history #black literature #black community #civil rights #black history is american history #american history #black wallstreet #black history matters #black history month

[batsarebetterthanpeople]

So in light of the borderline trauma porn of episode 5 of iwtv I am reconsidering previous episodes and writing decisions that were made in them. Specifically I'm thinking about the end of episode 3. Recap, Louis is being treated incredibly racistly by a politician he has history with who is targeting his business. He deals with this in a based and vampire way by going in and killing him and then stringing his ass up outside if some government center.

What happened next called to mind both the burning of black wall street/the Tulsa race riots and Kristal Nacht, at least to my white lay viewing, I'm no historian. I could be way off base here. Now I don't know if the spacific event has any more historical president than that or if this massacre was fictional.

Let me know if I'm out of line here, but I wonder about the motivation of having Louis' incredibly gruesome (if deserved) and public murder of that guy inspire such an event, given that both of the historical atrocities that it called to mind for me were responses to independent marginalized prosperity that the ingroup was determined to undermine. I wonder about it especially since Louis blames himself for it while he and Claudia are fishing. Something about it feels rotten.

#iwtv crit #iwtv 2022 #iwtv #interview with the vampire 2022 #interview with the vampire #cw racism #cw tulsa race riots #cw kristal nacht

[aiiaiiiyo]

#This is Olivia Hooker. She was the last surviving witness of the Tulsa Race Riots of 1921 #served in World War II #and received a PhD in Psychology. Here she is at age 6 in 1921. #ShanColes #oldschool

[amerikaz1]

The Tulsa Historical Society & Museum has a website with an interactive exploration of the history of the infamous 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.

Click the link above to visit the site.

#tulsa ok #race #race riots #hate crimes

[katruna]

#the tulsa race riot of 1921 #as told by survivors and descendants #ishi #dna sequencing #dna #genealogical dna #Youtube

[the-cooler-king]

Truly wish it was easier to find ways to donate to things without having to sift through article after article, blog after blog.... just let me give u my money homie

#Im between two or three things I'd like to look into this year #Last year I think was the restoration of an old Jewish cemetery in greece #Year before they were killing Armenians again so had to give them some stacks #This year im like there so many things that need money #Palestine of course. Fucking free my homies. #There's also the Tulsa race riots...the last three survivors are suing the state #I'd love to donate to them #And then there's apparently anti-trans bills being talked about in my state #And im like who do I give money to to stop this kind of nonsense #Do not take kids rights away that shit is vile! #Anyway im just feeling some kind of way today #If yall have anything reputable PLEASE drop that link

[berryhobii]

HAPPY BLACK HISTORY MONTH! 🖤🖤🖤In honor of this wonderful month and the history of our people, I want to provide information on pieces of black history that is often overlooked due to the whitewashing of education.

First up, the race riots and black massacres that occurred. Many people do not know but before, during, and after segregation and Jim Crow laws, black people had built wealthy black communities and were striving despite racial discrimination.

A black community in Tulsa, Oklahoma was known as Black Wall Street. Black owned businesses thrived and we were reaching the same levels as our white counterparts. The masacre started on Memorial Day weekend when a young black man by the name of Dick Rowland was accused of assaulting a young white woman. After this hearsay reached the white community, they gathered their arms, Rowland was arrested and set to be lynched with no trial. Due to a white man being lynched the year before, white people took this as an opportunity to get revenge. After a report that hundreds of white men had gathered to hurt Rowland in prison, a group of 75 black men also gathered to protect him. However, a white officer convinced them to leave. It was later found that Rowland was beaten by this officer already but didn’t want anyone else to find out.

Referring to as a “rolling gunfight”, more instances of white people provoking black people led to a shootout between both communities. When outnumbered, the black people were forced to retreat.

As news of his gun violence spread, mob violence reached its peak. For an entire day and night, white rioters looted stores, burned down buildings, destroyed homes, and unalived many black people. It’s also believed that white rioters started this massacre as a way to knock black wealth down out of jealousy and white supremacy.

A little over 10,000 black people were left homeless and the property damage to the community was set close to $1.5Million and personal property at $750,000(equal to about $36.92 Million today). Due to racial discrimination and redlining, the city and banks refused to compensate black people while simultaneously handing out loans to white businesses that were not affected during the riots. This caused many black families to leave Tulsa in search of a new place to settle. Due to white people’s power over media, the Tulsa Riots remained omitted from national histories. It didn’t even get published into history books until the 1960s.

While Tulsa is the most common masacre we hear about, it’s not the only one. The destruction of black communities have led to the property value in those areas steadily decreasing. Redlining made it so that black people could not rebuild and the majority of money was funneled into white communities. Today, it’s why POC communities are more likely to be dilapidated and poverty stricken while white communities are maintained and clean.

I will provide a list of other race riots and black massacres here.

Educate yourself. Teach the children. Don’t let them gaslight you. Our history is long and harsh and it deserves to be spoken about.

#black history #black history month #black lives matter #history #black people

[porterdavis]

Without consciously choosing to, I watched two damning movies the last two nights. I had somehow never seen 1970's Little Big Man, and I finally found enough time to watch the bloated 3 1/2 hours of Killers of the Flower Moon.

Both are reality-based chronicles of the treatment of Indians by whites in the US, and it's hard to imagine worse behaviour. Both movies are masterpieces, although each could have benefitted from some judicious editing for length.

I think I will wait a while before watching Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.

America's history is replete with ugly chapters: Tulsa race riots, Trail of Tears, slave hunters, internment camps, lynchings. No amount of the revisionist history promulgated by the right today will ever erase them. They need to be known, taught, and learned from.

[soberscientistlife]

On this day in 1921, The Tulsa Race Massacre happened in the affluent black community of Greenwood in Tulsa (Black Wall Street)

White supremacists killed more than 300 African Americans and looted & burned to ground homes & businesses.

History of Tulsa before the riot

Source: African Archives Twitter

[thechanelmuse]

Hughes "Uncle Redd" Van Ellis (1921-2023) ❤️🕊

Mr. Hughes was a WWll combat veteran and one of the last three survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre in 1921, in which jealous European-American mobs went into the thriving, economic, 35-block area of the Greenwood district created by Black Americans (survivors and descendants of American chattel slavery) in Tulsa, Oklahoma known as “Black Wall Street,” and looted, burned & bombed it to the ground and murdered Black Americans through government sanction.

Justice for the Tulsa Race Massacre survivors has been intentionally slow-moving for over a century now to insure injustice is given to those who survived it. Even to the point where people try to bury the history or give a revisionist lie of it being a race riot. But just as reparations for US chattel slavery (perpetual ownership passed on through birth as someone's property and form of capital through labor and body), the debt is still owed from the US government.

The stolen generational wealth from forced labor, the stolen wealth from the Freedmen's bank ($93 million today) amongst other things, the stolen land to this day, and the continued remnants of slavery (including, Jim Crow, ethnocide and genocide) that are government sanctioned in our homeland our ancestors built from scratch. The debt will always be owed until it's paid. A debt doesn't die.

Reparations are currently happening at a slow pace across a number of states and municipality levels as of now, but at the same time we have to fight against Pan-African and obstructionist Democrats to ensure it's lineage-based for Black Americans only, direct cash payments to remove any hiccups, and protective policies our ancestors should've always had and we should've inherited.

When you don't have protective policies on the books for the largest ethnic group who descends from America and strip/impede on their potential accumulation of wealth and assets to pass down to their families, what do their descendants inherit?👂🏽

Some survivors and the descendants of Black Wall Street tried to rebuild their district, but when you're stripped of your wealth and "urban renewal" starts intruding I-244 called "Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Expressway" 😒 into your land, you can imagine the results. Mr. Hughes inherited displacement and poverty, passed down poverty to his family, and died in poverty. Mama Viola Fletcher, 109 (who is the sister of Mr. Hughes pictured above) and Mama Lessie Benningfield Randle, 108, are the last two survivors and still in the fight. They, too, live in poverty.

The passing of Mr. Hughes and our Black American ancestors will never go in vain as we continue to stand 10 toes down for them and us and see it through.

Rest easy, Uncle Redd (Jan. 11, 1921 - Oct. 9, 2023) ❤️🕊

This was his testimony before Congress in 2021:

#hughes van ellis #tulsa race massacre #tulsa survivors #black wall street #reparations #american history #black american history

[beardedmrbean]

Wait

The Native Americans are fighting against the wokies?

It not surprising because how problematic they see things as. Fuck the recent Predator movie Prey did more to preserve the Comanche language it’s was also fully dub into it

But seriously I seen it in black media, notice how 95% of black media only focus on blm stuff or how many black historical figures are often erased by white wokies? Like black peopke can’t thrive in capitalism…please ignore that restaurant owner that inspire the Disney Princess Tiana

But back to the natives, yeah they would attack you guys. The left can barely understand Japanese POP CULTURE much as native historical stuff.

Good luck natives…tbh I think I know more about the Iroquois playing via playing a fictional historical game more than what leftist learn about native Americans in college.

But seriously I seen it in black media, notice how 95% of black media only focus on blm stuff or how many black historical figures are often erased by white wokies? Like black peopke can’t thrive in capitalism…please ignore that restaurant owner that inspire the Disney Princess Tiana

Admittedly it got shit on pretty hard in the Tulsa Race Riots, but "black wall street" was a thing and there were many thriving former slaves and children of former slaves at that point. Would have been nice if they'd managed to rebuild I will admit the cards were not just stacked against them, there was bulldozers pushing those cards too, few still managed.

Would have been nice if they could have been more able to defend themselves properly, trying to find NRA activity for southern Black folks post reconstruction/Jim crow era not much popping up other than.

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This guy who just popped on to my radar.

Born in North Carolina in 1925, Williams’ experience mirrors that of many African-Americans of his generation. He moved to Detroit as part of the Second Great Migration, where he was privy to race rioting over jobs. He served in the then-segregated United States Marine Corps for a year and a half after being drafted in 1944. Upon returning to his North Carolina hometown, Williams found a moribund chapter of the NAACP. With only six members and little opposition, he used his USMC training to commandeer the local branch and turn it in a decidedly more military direction. The local chapter soon had over 200 members under Williams’ leadership. If nothing else, his leadership was effective at building the movement from the ground up.

An early incident is particularly instructive in how effective these new tactics were. The KKK was very active in Monroe, with an estimated 7,500 members in a town of 12,000. After hearing rumors that the Klan intended to attack NAACP chapter Vice President Dr. Albert Perry’s house, Williams and members of the Black Armed Guard surrounded the doctor’s house with sandbags and showed up with rifles. Klansman fired on the house from a moving vehicle and the Guard returned fire. Soon after, the Klan required a special permit from the city’s police chief to meet. One incident of self-defense did more to move the goalposts than all previous legislative pressure had.

Monroe’s Black Armed Guard wasn’t a subsidiary of the Communist Party, nor an independent organization like the Black Panther Party that would use similar tactics of arming their members later. In fact, “Black Armed Guard” was nothing more than a fancy name for an officially chartered National Rifle Association chapter.

He got a bit more militant later on, I will blame a good deal of that on the fbi doing what the fbi did to black people that stood up for other black people. Not gonna call him a hero just yet because I haven't looked far enough into him to have a full picture, but this stuff is pretty damn heroic. Remember gun control has frequently been used as a tool to keep minorities in check, and will continue to be used as so until more people put their foot down.

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Ya we went over this before with Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben among others, removing minority representation in order to not offend white leftists who will just find something else to be offended about anyhow so just please ignore them and ask the people you're supposedly doing it for, I will say I'm glad that the "latinx" debate is over, only took most of Latin America and the royal Spanish society both saying it's stupid and insulting to get it killed.

Also don't try to turn it around on white people because

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We eat this shit up, fighting whites one went on sale, sold out really fast and the money went to a scholarship program for indigenous students I think, it's in the link and they should make them again if you ask me.

#zoomer huey anon

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#black tumblr #black history #black literature #black excellence #black community #civil rights #black history is american history #race riots #tulsa oklahoma #newspaper #oklahoma