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>> so the next morning, tuesday, may 31st, the tulsa police decide we're 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 there's lynch talks on the streets of tulsa. lynch talk soon turns into a lynch mob. meanwhile, black people are trying to figure out what's going on, what to do, how to organize. there was a feeling amongst black vets that if trouble...

Make dick roland. >> may 31st, the police decide they're 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 there's lynch talks on the streets of tulsa. lynch talk soon turns into a lynch mob. meanwhile black people are trying to figure out what's going on, what to do, how to organize. there was a feeling amongst black vets if trouble comes my way i ain't dodging it. in tul...

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 they've 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 wouldn't black folks want that for themselves?

But tulsa has a truth problem. hiding the truth and people who will not challenge what is perceived to be true. >> what's 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 don ross created the commission to study the tulsa race riot of 1921, which

Female taboo. they're 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, there's lynch talks on the streets of tulsa. >> lynch talk soon turns into a lynch mob. meanwhile, black people are trying to figure out what's going on, what to do, how to organize. there was a feeling amongst black vets that if trouble comes my way, i ain't dodging it. in tulsa there had not been...