A Survivors tale: Tulsa 1921

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Wednesday May 19, 2021 · 5:13 PM PDT

2021/05/19 · 17:13

Greenwood was strictly segregated from the rest of the city, but still it flourished. It was home to black lawyers, business owners, and doctors — including Dr. A.C. Jackson, who was considered the most skilled black surgeon in America and had a net worth of $100,000.
Dr. Jackson was killed on the night of May 31st, 1921, along with hundreds of black Tulsans. Thirty-five blocks of Greenwood were razed that night. 1,256 homes and 191 businesses were destroyed. 10,000 black people were left homeless.
By morning, Black Wall Street had been reduced to rubble. | The official investigation in 2001 found the city partly responsible for the casualties and property damage of the Tulsa massacre. | Some of those deputies — probably in conjunction with some uniformed police officers — were responsible for some of the burning of Greenwood.” | The report concluded that the City of Tulsa owed reparations to the survivors of the massacre and their descendants. Those reparations have yet to be paid. — A Historic moment of chaos

the two last sole survivors' of the events of the Tulsa Massacre that happened 100 years ago spoke to the house. here is a bit of their story:

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Their Testimony shall forever be remembered as they where speaking to the house on a lawsuit on Oklahoma and Tulsa itself for reparation's to the families that where lost during the 48 hr event.

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