I'm an extensive researcher in this incident. I promise to not go long. You can find a lot about what lead to it in a neat documentary that questioned some of the original survivors here": 1) this is Jim Crow Democrat Confederates creating Oklahoma https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5Ux-Dhdyrw

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2)this is Black settlements, Black towns, etc

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jcI3rLwotc

 

3) This is what you are probably wanting to see, the race riot, and interview with an eye witness.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRsLzijK_Io Ok, in my 30 years of investigating the Tulsa Race Riot, here's my very brief synopsis. The area of Greenwood was created by Cherokee Black Freedmen by land given by the Dawes Land Commission. Black Cherokee Judge Reed ruled they were due it. White settlers to the area who were mostly older Confederate Democrats were jealous of Black people owing such a large area in a town like Tulsa. There were train tracks and a station. Even civic leaders of Tulsa were thinking of ways to get the Black people out of Black Wall Street so they could foreclose or get it by imminent domain. So far, even the Oklahoma Supreme Court would not support Tulsa's imminent domain efforts, because original title of the land was the Cherokees, and these were authentic Cherokee freedmen. There was no legal method in existence to force Blacks from their inherited land. So they had brewed up ways to get them off and a massive act of arson was suggested mostly by the members of the Tulsa City Council who were aligned with KKK. And when an innocent Black boy was accused of attacking a white lady in a downtown building, that was the necessary gas to pour on the fire. Some Black citizens massed on the old jail and then word got out that negros were rioting. Soon armed masses showed up to greenwood and they started torching it. Someone who owned a plane at Cherokee air park flew over and was dropping glass canister turpentine bombs. Eventually Democrat governor James B.A. Robertson send up the state guard. When the train arrived, about 200 Black residents were trapped between the wall of fire near Archer street and the tracks. Well armed white and tulsa police would not let them escape over the Boston Avenue bridge (now center of the Universe Bridge). The trains stops and the guardsmen let down the windows and began firing into the crowd. At least 80 Black Tulsans died on the spot. They were quickly gathered up and buried in a mass grave, which is actively being investigated to this day. Exactly how many were buried. Can we do forensics on the way they died. Is the number of 80 way too low? Democrats ran Oklahoma in almost every possibly way between 1908 to 2010. Only recently has our governor Stitt and new state leadership provided significant funding to uncover the mystery of exactly what happened that terrible day in America.