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the hello, i'm sent me. okay. on the thing to day, we explore hidden history. finally, being openly discussed a 100 years ago. this week, one of the worst massacres in the history of the united states took place during the tulsa race massacre. white americans bombed, hunted down and killed black men, women and children, while burning their homes and businesses to the ground. an african american community once so wealthy that it was described as being black wall street was torn apart. the massacre with them played down to such an extent. it wasn't even

mentioned in history. books are taught in schools for decades. new process really played a large role in racing, the tulsa reese massacre from living memory. and it's only been the last 2025 years . the historians are really sort of digging through some of the documents that are existing to be able to piece together what really happened. and that's why they're there such white estimates on the number of victims. and they're so few accounts existing today in the 1st few years after the event. it was not written about in the, in the newspapers here in tulsa and in fact, on june 1st. and 1921. the tulsa tribune. the cover page with what is thought to be united tauriel about massacre is entirely missing. all existing copies of the paper have that page missing actually physically cut out. and so that sort of set the stage for how the event would then be wiped from the historical record for the

following 75 years. what you want to know about the toaster race masika and its impact to this very day. if you're on youtube, you can be part of this discussion, jump into the comments section and you can ask, i guess anything. let me guess hello to lisa. hello, carlos. hello laura. it is so good to have you on the stream and this, this historical week. and lisa, in the context of the tulsa race massacre, introduce yourself to our global audience. hello, i'm anna lisa bruner, the great granddaughter of mary elizabeth jones parish, tulsa race massacre, survivor author of a nation must awake, nice to seattle. lisa, thanks for being with us. hello, carlos, hello audience, who you are? hi, my name is carlos marino. i'm the author of the victory of greenwood, which tells readers about the founding of greenwood and it's historical figures up

until the present day. get to have in holland or in the context of the tulsa race masika. introduce yourself to our international audience. hello, i'm laura pitter. i'm the deputy director of the u. s. program at human rights watch, and we've offered a report called the case for reparations in tulsa, oklahoma. get to have the gas and lisa, and call us in order to understand what happened in greenwood, in tulsa. you have to appreciate what an extraordinary place it was. i am not sure if the, the descriptions i've seen the pictures i've seen have been slightly exaggerated. here was such an amazing place. cos, what did you know about what do you want to share with us about greenwich? first of all. well, greenwood was an amazing place. booker t. washington and the very famous historian, author, speaker, at the time in 1917 did name this place, the negro wall street,

and the name has stuck with the neighborhood ever since. it was $36.00 blocks of an incredible business district that had just an inspiring amount of wealth and vibrancy enjoy. and i see your great grandmother wrote an account of what happened in the tulsa race. masika. did she also talk about what greenwood was like? you know, she did, she came to tulsa from rochester, new york, and she said that she was drawn not only by opportunities to make money, but by the sense of cooperation and community that was so strong. there, there were civic organizations, churches, places where people could participate and feel the full expression of their american citizenship in freedom and insecurity. so these are the elements of

tulsa greenwood district that drove her there and others. i mean, to be clear, this was segregated america, this is why there was a black neighborhood and then across the train tracks there was a white neighborhood. so if we go back to june of 1921, what started one of the worst race massacres in history in the united states history color, he start and then on a lease, i want you to tell us to the eyes of your great grandmother, call us go ahead. yeah, so me, i think one of the things that we need to understand is that this city was segregated by law. there was a housing ordinance that was passed in 1916. that said that if there was a neighborhood where white people were living, that a black family could not live there. so the segregation was structural was systemic

in nature and greenwood needed to build its own neighborhood out of necessity. yes, it was a thriving neighborhood. yes, it was an inspiration throughout the nation, but it was a neighborhood that was built out of necessity because this black community was segregated from the rest of the city. and so what? yeah. so i'm offense. i am from the segregation. we're going back a 100 years. it is a segregated america. analissa. what did your great grandmother say started this race masika? well, there was an underlying condition, simmering racial tensions. there was the land left on the part of city fathers who wanted to take over greenwood. and what we can understand from history now is that there was a precipitating event, but it was a pretext. there was a young man by the name of dick roland, 1900 years old,

who was in an elevator downtown. in the drexel building, 17 year old sarah page was the white young woman who was operating the elevator. some event happened within the confines of the elevator. she let out a scream, the door opened. he fled, knowing the consequences of even the perception of a young black man saying something awkward to a young white woman. and so he, she ran, he was later arrested. and taken to the jail slash court house, where there was sewn as soon after the assembly of a mob who threatened to lynch him. black people responded, and the conflagration began. but it was a pretext he was never fully prosecuted and found guilty of any crime. she refused to participate in any case against him. and so it was

exactly a pretext for what people had wanted to do all along and according to some really, really good colors called us go ahead please. now i just, i really appreciate the framing of the conversation that just laid out because it's very important to know that the story between dick roland or page was not the cause of the master. that this is an event that was pre planned, that also police, deputized $200.00 people. the national guard supplied 2 branches, 2 divisions to evacuate the neighborhood of greenwood, there were businessmen who supplied fuel for the airplanes that bomb to this neighborhood. and so all of this, there were 3 detention camps that were set up to in term 6000 people. so we need to understand all of this was planned ahead of time and all of this was

done in cooperation with with the city officials at the time. and researchers believe that the young man who was in the left with the young woman that the lift or the elevator jerked and he accident a bumped into her. and she panicked and started to scream. when a white woman screams and a black man runs out of an elevator in 1921, that is never a good thing. and so when he was putting to jail a whole bunch of white locals stood outside the jail asking to lynch. and i want to kill him there and then, and then coming down the street were black americans. some of them were from well one with guns and then that that resistance set up what you then described carlos, what did your great grandmother say about this? and what did she say in how was,

i'll tell you what she said and what she saw. her young daughter, 7 years old, was at the window. my great grandmother had been teaching in her teaching school for typewriting and secretary services. my grandmother, the young girl in the window culture, her mother, mother, i see me with guns, with a great urgency. my great grandmother sprang to her feet and she looked out and she saw people advancing with torches. people passing by an automobile with guns hanging out committing drive by shootings. actually there were planes overhead as carlos had mentioned. and my grandmother, my great grandmother, prayed to have guidance in a and what is what you can well imagine was a life or death. quandary should i remain in my home where it can be burned to death, or should i take my chances and amongst the flying bullets outside,

she thought it would be better. she says to die in the street from bullet shot than to be subject of incendiary devices within her home. so she, she ran out onto the street. someone cried out, get out of the street with that child, or you both will be killed. she ran north, seeking refuge at a house of a friend farther up. and we do know now that the entire quarter was surrounded. we talk about the guard and the divisions that were deployed. they surrounded the entire district the entire quarter so that they could slaughter people as they ran for their life. so this was an act and a scene of warfare from above, from the st. machine guns were mounted on stand pipe hill, which just out into the northern part of the city and people were mowed down on the street as they ran. no, when you're listening to this from the vantage point of

a 100 years later, from a human rights watch point of view, what went on there and what could be the potential accountability? well, so what i guess what i would just add and it's really wonderful to be on the panel with with carlos and lisa, just because dave can tribute or us, you know what other works that they're discussing or is you know, it's important. they've made important contributions to what we know about the top rated massacre. it would just say that the, you know, what happened in 1921 was something there was incident. there were, were incident of racial violence happening all over the country. the tulsa res massacre was one of the worst incidents racial violence in the history of the united states. but these events, in particular, the tulsa res massacre was precipitated by you know,

jealousy and frustration. whenever black people would advance, you know, there was this backlash that had been brewing intention had been brewing for some time. so if it was a pretext, there were many reasons why the white mob, you know, use this moment to lash out at the black population of tulsa. but you know, 100 years later the issue is, is that today we still do not have any repair or restitution for what happens following the massacre, the authorities did nothing to prosecute anyone for the violence. the took place, no restitution was provided. the people sued to try and get the insurance claims that they had for their, their property and their belongings. they thought for years and courts and

ultimately lost that battle. but subsequent to the massacre, they authorities just tried to cover it up north and i are 100 years and did cover it up for a 100 years. so that's why we don't have justice today. let me ask you this because i did invite audience to contribute to the, to the conversation. fernandez, williams wants to ask the insurance companies are still around, should they be forced to pay up in current dollars? the claims they refused to pay 100 years ago. laura thoughts? absolutely. you know, there are millions of dollars you know, of, of property insured and, you know, just because they've avoided being respond ansible for paying back those claims for a 100 years doesn't mean that they should continue to get away with it. yes, more information is coming to light now about what happened during the massacre in the past 20 years, particularly. but the reason it was suppressed for so long was because of intimidation and fear. and if the we let intimidation and fear we now, you know,

then that certainly is not justice. and even though it's a 100 years later, you know, they're responsible. the authority to responsible and the insurance companies are responsible and the city is responsible for repairing the harm that was done and providing restitution for the property and lives that were lost. absolutely as much today as they were. then let's go to this, this movement, this growing movement that is picking up some steam about reparations accountability and justice. i won't introduce you to violet viola fletcher and also hughes uncle. read fun, ellis, 2 of 3 survivors from the tulsa race massacre. he, they all, may the 19th a, talking about their experiences during the masika to the house judiciary subcommittee have listened. avalon, i will never forget the balance of my mom. when we live our home. i still see black

men see and be and shot black bottom line in the street and i still smell smoke and see far i still see lag visions is the and burn. i still hear airplanes flying overhead. hear the screams, live through the mass, go every day. country may forget this history, but i cannot because of the math school math van, they were driven home. we were left with nothing. lee was made in our own cut. and lisa, so when we're talking about reparations, we're talking about reparations fee. you and your family and all of your relatives

as well. what would that look like? i think that's a very important point, but more urgently. these people are over 100 years old and we must address reparations for them even on an emergency basis if necessary. so that they can live out their days and dignity and security, the security that was rested from them, as mister van ellis's making them homeless and leaving them with nothing. there also lost their sense of security and belonging. these people need to be made whole immediately with cash payments. that's my opinion. and everything else is still for discussion, but i do in general support cash payment. and this as the 1st step toward the broader discussion of reparation in cash or in placement. cut off.

absolutely, i mean we think of this conversation of reparations as being new, but as early as june, 2nd of 1921, the tulsa chamber of commerce. admit that this was a wrong that the city had done to the community of greenwood and that the city had a responsibility to pay reparations. and a fund was begun as early as june, 2nd of 921. it was 2 weeks later on june 15th, that the committee was forced to resign under political pressure from the mayor and from the city commission. so here is a city who has admitted directly after the event that it owed the community of greenwood payment to repair this damage. and

here we are a 100 years later and that promise has not been fulfilled. no, i'm just yet. you can go ahead law. i would just add to that, you know, 20 years ago at state back commission that thoroughly for 4 years investigated. the massacre made recommendations that that direct payment should be made to survivors in descendants. and that was their priority recommendation. they need 3 other recommendations, but that was their 1st priority. 20 years later that still has not happened. and, you know, at the time when that recommendation was made, there were more than 100 survivors still alive. so i fully agree that at minimum, they need to provide direct payments to the living survivors that we know today of which only 3 remain unfortunately. but then the comprehensive plan. yeah, i need to say that one more time because you are speaking over log ahead. i'm so

sorry, i did want to add one thing. i'm sorry, i didn't realize that you had not finished mer vinyl of tulsa recently said. should people today be punished for the acts of certain criminal in the past? that is a disingenuous argument. number one, it wasn't just some random criminal, we're talking about, you know, the city fathers themselves, people who had a vested business interest and so forth. and what eventually happened in greenwood . but also, how can we think about framing the issue of making people hold as a punishment? i would invite those who consider who would consider this a punishment to open your mind in your heart and to understand it's an opportunity to make your sit your fellow citizen whole as you see that they are suffering and have suffered and, and this is an ongoing issue, but think about looking at your neighbor, your compatriot, if you will,

and thinking how you can contribute to making them whole restoring and repairing what has happened. my biggest challenge right now, and lisa and carlos and lor is. i don't know how did you put a cost on murdering over $300.00 people and moving them out of their neighborhood and destroying their neighbor? i don't know how you put a financial price on that, but i do know that if you look tulsa right now, and the people who were left in what used to be black wall street, there were major issues. this is a human rights watch piece about what urban renewal looks like. and what was and what is now still greenwood have a listen, have a look. carbon removal. government calls that oven renewable. i call it over and removal. came through this community like they did and so many other black

community and literally destroyed greenwood each time they were denied an opportunity to create some generational wealth. and so our families don't know the same generational wealth that they knew in greenwood law. briefly. how do you put a price on the kind of loss that happened 100 years ago? i don't think you can ever put a price on it or repair anyone with, you know, monetary compensation. but it certainly is, is what can be done to try to remedy or repair to the extent it's possible today. if you're talking about, you know, we know, we know what property was last, we know what insurance claims existed. and you know, we can at least try and make, you know, people whole, to the extent we can with some kind of compensation or restitution. we do it's good

public policy and we do it all the time when we compensate people for police violence, for example. it's not an unheard of or foreign concept. it's well established in international human rights law and it's well established in us law. right. i'm wondering up on, on something that kind of thing you brought to our attention. the story of greenwood is not about the massacre. it's about the resilience of the area and it's come back, carlos. yeah, you know, that is something that state representative, don ross said in them in 1997. i fully believe it. the community of greenwood did rebuild after this horrible event. they did so at great cost to themselves. as laura mentioned earlier, the insurance companies would not pay the banks would not pay, the city would not pay. and so greenwood was really left to its own devices. and yet, there is film footage from 1924 of this being

a thriving community. once again, there's from footage from 1948 to 1952 of us being a thriving community and urban renewal comes along and builds to highways through the neighborhood. and so yet again, we see that 50 years later this generational wealth that and lisa discussed was, was taken away from the community once again. and so i think that also needs to be added into the conversation about reparations. and, you know, we see the french government and german governments today dealing with this issue of paying back the damage that they have done to countries that they have colonized and so reparations have been paid by us for example, to an internment camps. and so i think that's not what i mean. yeah, i hear you take

a look at my laptop. the victory of free word is call us this book. and then you can find out about annalise, his great grandmother. the nation must awake. the details here right here, my laptop at lisa, carlos, laura youtube as being part of today. shy. see you next time? ah ah ah ah, ah, the important thing if you are walking around and a root was not to be in the line of fire from the holiday, but we heard gunshots, i was the 1st one to flee. the whole battle lasted 3 days and 3 nights, and there were no prisoners at the end control over the in, and you control the region around. and that's why i was such a bloody, an icon of conflict at the heart of the lebanese civil war bay route holiday in war

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