Posted on 05/31/2020 9:42:16 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
In 1921, Tulsa was home to one of the most prosperous African American communities in the country.
Businesses flourished along Greenwood Avenue — dubbed Black Wall Street, according to tradition, by the great educator Booker T. Washington. Residential neighborhoods spread out in a bustling community of several thousand souls.
In a little more than 12 hours, it was gone.
A riot that began at the Tulsa County Courthouse on the night of May 31, 1921, escalated into an all out assault on Greenwood on the morning of June 1. White mobs stormed through the community setting fires, stealing and killing and wounding countless black Tulsans. Thirty-five blocks of businesses, homes and churches were left in smoldering ruins; just about everything left standing had been looted and vandalized.
Although 37 deaths were confirmed, as many as 300 people are believed to have been killed. Hundreds more were injured and thousands were homeless.
For the better part of a century, the events of May 31-June 1, 1921, were rarely discussed in public. The race massacre, as it’s now known, was not generally included in history courses and only in the past 20 years has it again become common knowledge among Tulsa’s residents.
With the massacre’s centennial only a year away, this special section looks back at the secret Tulsa could never quite forget.
Wondered why you posted this but, I do understand Irony...
It wouldn’t be the first time Democrats leveled a black community. Back in 1856, the City of New York confiscated Seneca Village by eminent domain. It had been owned by AME Zion Church since 1825, and was a black community. The City of New York took over the land to build Central Park. The Mayor of New York City at the time was Fernando Wood, Democrat. The Governor of New York was Myron Clark, Whig.
This narrative that white leftists are burning down black neighborhoods is bullshit. Plenty of film sand photographs of blacks looting, pillaging and possibly even killing a man tonight.
Yes, there are commies directing everything probably and some groups of ruoters are exclusively white commies, but this does not translate to whites being solely responsible.
Meh...democrats...same shit different century.
Nearly 100 years ago and they still can’t let it die.
It was a different time and both sides were to blame.
No need to keep ripping old wounds open and pouring salt in them.
That is wrong but so are black mobs pillaging and stealing and creating all sorts of crimes and violence.
>> Plenty of film sand photographs of blacks
Definitely horrific and certainly counterproductive, but the primary insurgents are the White Antifa fanatics and of course those giving the orders.
What we’re seeing is a communist-based rebellion.
About 45 years ago, OETA had a special program of newsreels from that time narrated by Lowell Thomas. One of those was on the Tulsa race riot. I missed it and always wanted to see it.
I took a drive one time and found myself at the corner of Archer and Greenwood. A quick look and I got out of there real fast! Total Ghetto area then.
I worked with a man in New Mexico who told me about a house of ill repute at that location he visited back in the 1930s. When I-244 was finished, I often traveled it and noticed an apartment building at that area.
One day, one of the Tulsa Newspapers mentioned that when I-244 was completed, it caused a brothel to be shut down at that spot.
My father-in-law said that when he was just a kid he could see the smoke from the Tulsa riot where he lived.
I’m confident the vast majority of Blacks don’t want the insanity. The chaos totally over shadows the original crime and the potential for honest policy changes. But now, it’s a total shit-show.
There is a different version of this history that says the blacks rioted. Not clear which version is propaganda.
That is wrong but so are black mobs pillaging and stealing and creating all sorts of crimes and violence.Did you bother to at least see the date of the incident?
>>Although 37 deaths were confirmed, as many as 300 people are believed to have been killed.
It’s a bullsh!t mythmaking historical event. There are leftist and race baiting groups who claim 1,000 dead.
Fact, there was a white prisoner who’d been lynched in the preceding week or month. (Point being that the crowd didn’t just lynch black people)
Fact, the lynch mob that attempted to get to the black prisoner were unsuccessful and he was not lynched.
Fact, the authorities fought against the lynch mob.
Some of the accounts even tried to say that an “air force” attacked the city from the sky. At most one plane (cropduster?) flew in the vicinity.
So much mythmaking.
And it certainly is not relevant to today’s riots or gives any justification for assaulting and killing those who aren’t black just because they drove through a riot or stood outside their business filming the proceedings.
In the Rodney King riots there were attacks on white people (famously Reginald Denny but others as well) and hispanic people (I recall a man who’d been beaten and his pants were pulled down by his attackers and his genitals were spraypainted black to make him black too). These attacks were on videotape.
This happened like a 100 years ago...literally...
Remembering events like this are important. I believe another such event occurred in Florida, also destroying a black economically successful community. The effects of these drove blacks from the ideas of BT Washington, that equality and political power would follow economic self sufficiency to the arms of WEB DuBois and his agenda of radical political action as the only way to equality. The nation as a whole and Blacks would be much better off today if Washington’s way had been followed.
I perceived proud’s comment as being analogous to current events.
I just emailed the journalist who wrote this story. if I had the email addresses for the publisher and the editor in charge they would have received the same:
“What is the point of this story that happened 99 years ago other than to further inflame a nation already on fire? Your actions are beyond irresponsible and I hope you pay a heavy price for it.”
White Democrats have not changed a bit.. Racists then, racists now.
The “Black Wall Street” was a modest commercial strip in Tulsa that contained a few barbershops, some grocery stores, a funeral home, a couple of doctor and dentist offices, etc. It was very modest even by the standards of other ethnic enclaves of the time (S.F. Chinatown, Jewish Lower East Side, Little Italy, etc.) let alone the actual Wall Street. It was “Wall Street” in the same sense that the grass huts of Great Zimbabwe were a “city”. I suppose it was notable only in comparison to the rest of the US where blacks owned hardly any businesses at all .
It should not have been burned but “Black Wall Street” gives rise to the idea that a veritable Wakanda or the Great Library of Alexandria was destroyed rather than a modest little commercial strip. Of course this event from a century ago and not the much larger and later destruction of entire neighborhoods in Newark, Detroit, etc. by blacks themselves (or the even more recent LA riots) is what is remembered.
It was modest compared to Detroit in its heyday. The auto industry made for pretty solid living for a lot of black people with a high school education and a willingness to put in work. Needless to say, the riot of 1967-despite its severity and the effect it ultimately had on Detroit as a city-doesn’t make for as convenient history as Tulsa, because people will begin questioning why the riot took place in what was probably the most economically prosperous city for black people in mid-century America rather than, say, Birmingham.
Re Detroit: it has only been in the last 7 years or so where the city has truly recovered in any sense, and outside of the center city where all the new startups have moved in, it is still a hellhole. Even from the airport, you see urban prairie everywhere. The history of Detroit in the last 50 years should fascinate anybody interested in civilizational decline, as much as the fall of the Western Roman Empire.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houston_riot_of_1917
[The Camp Logan Mutiny (also called the Houston Riot of 1917) was an armed, racial rampage that killed 16 white civilians and police officers by 156 soldiers of the Third Battalion of the all-black Twenty-fourth United States Infantry Regiment. Four soldiers were also killed. The rampage was an indignant reaction to perceived police mistreatment of black soldiers who had been on city passes earlier in the day. Soldiers returned to their barracks, armed themselves against orders, and marched back into town shooting at any white person they say, particularly targeting police. It took place over a single night, and resulted in the deaths of 11 civilians, five policemen, and four soldiers. The soldiers were tried at three courts-martial for mutiny. Nineteen were executed, and 41 were sentenced to life imprisonment. ]
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