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>> so the next morning, tuesday, may 31st, the tulsa police decide were going to pick up dick rowland. so they go to where he lives with his mother in greenwood, arrest him, take him to the courthouse and like as with other prisoners, put him up in the fourth-floor jail. the first edition of the tulsa tribune hits the streets around 3:00, 3:30. within 30 minutes theres lynch talks on the streets of tulsa. lynch talk soon turns into a lynch mob. meanwhile, black people are trying to figure out wh...

Make dick roland. >> may 31st, the police decide theyre going to pick him up. they go to where he lives with his mother in greenwood, arrest him, take him to the courthouse and as with other prisoners put him up in the fourth floor jail. the first edition of the tulsa tribune hits the streets around 3:00, 3:30. within 30 minutes theres lynch talks on the streets of tulsa. lynch talk soon turns into a lynch mob. meanwhile black people are trying to figure out whats going on, what to do, how to or...

Greenwood is much larger to the south, to the east, to the west, and to the north. but all that we have left is just a sliver of its former self. >> every time someone comes back in 20 years, there is less and less of greenwood. people come here all the time and say, is this it? this is greenwood? this is what theyve been talking about, right? everybody wants a community where they can grow and prosper, and that dollar can turn over and they can become educated and own their own business. why wo...

But tulsa has a truth problem. hiding the truth and people who will not challenge what is perceived to be true. >> whats keeping tulsa from being a great shining city on the hill is dealing with the legacy of so-called tulsa race riot of 1921. white actuals ans murdered black folks and were trying to get rid of the bodies by jumping it in mass graves around the city. many offering were done to get rid of the bodies. in the late 1990s, senator max even horner and my father stayed representative d...

Female taboo. theyre going to pick him up. they go to where he lives with his mother in greenwood, arrest him, take him to the courthouse and as with other prisoners put him up in the fourth floor jail. >> the first edition of the tulsa tribune hits the streets around 3:00, 3:30. within 30 minutes, theres lynch talks on the streets of tulsa. >> lynch talk soon turns into a lynch mob. meanwhile, black people are trying to figure out whats going on, what to do, how to organize. there was a feeling...

Undetermined number who were murdered in this event, and so we have a responsibility, i think, as a city to try and find out where their remains are and what happened to them. it doesnt settle into your lines. age perfect foundation by loréal paris we are worth it. every day unilever does good for communities across america. ♪ every squeeze every smile every drop every style every spray every bubble every day dove, suave & hellmanns donate everyday products

Trouble and instigated it, and necessity person who seeks to put half the blame on the white people are wrong. >> what i learned about bodies being dumped in mass graves, and not ever receiving a proper burial, that touched me as a pastor on a visceral level. ♪ >> as a pastor, when you bury somebody, its more than just giving a eulogy. when we do it, we call it the committal, which is that ashes to ashes, that dust to dust over their bodies. that is our way of spiritually releasing them to go ...

Vindicated. it gets us one step closer in giving the families the opportunities to have the truth be known. actually give them a proper burial. >> this is all part of a mission to get back what was lost. weve lost a lot of history, a lot of testimony, a lot of known heritage that could have been passed down because it wasnt safe to talk about for so long. >> nobody said nothing until now. we just now talking about it. >> growing up, old folks didnt talk and they actually kind of hid a lot of stu...

Remarkable. the idea is were going to show you what your place is. we dont care wlf youve fought for the country when youre here, you play by our rules. >> the tulsa tribune published a series of inflammatory articles that really foe meanted hostility in the white community against the black community. tulsa was a powder keg or tind tinderbox, needing only something to set the community alight. age perfect foundation by loréal paris a super hydrating serum enriched with vitamin b3, in a lightwe...

They were hate ing to get rid o the bodies by dumping it in mass graves around the city. >> we tulsians the number it murdered, should not have taken 99 years. anybody who thinks this crime scene is not going to speak doesnt have the ears to hear. the ancestors are awake and the earth is shaking. >> i came to tulsa when i was in the sixth grade. so thats been, whoo, i dont know how many years. my mother is from oklahoma.