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In the 1920s, there was a Strong Black Community here in tulsa called greenwood. These people were the core of black entrepreneurship. People call it The Black Wall Street. Greenwood was like putting harlem, Bourbon Street, and Chocolate City all in one place. But White Tulsans talked about greenwood as Little Africa or [bleep] land. Tulsa was a powder keg, needing only something to set the community alight. Between 100 and 300 people, most of them black, were killed. Today we call it a massacre. They were hastily trying to get rid of the bodies by dumping them in mass graves around the city. ...

Point. you know, every high school student in oklahoma has to go through an oklahoma history course. never came up. my dad had been president of tulsa historical society. never came up. hearing about that, it was shocking to me because i loved tulsa. i couldn't believe that tulsa would be the kind of city where something like that could happen. we have tulsans of an 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 them. suv. (man) we've got some catching up to do. (woman) sure ...

The tulsa oklahoma historical society, it never came up. it was shocking to me. i loved tulsa. i couldn't believe that tulsa would be the kind of city where something like that would happen. we have tull sans of an undetermined number who were murdered in this event so we have a responsibility, i think, as a city to try and find out where their remains are and what happened to them. >> a moment in american history that should never be forgotten. you can watch "dreamland" monday night at 9 p.m. right here on cnn. stay with us. it comes from within. it drives you. and it guides you. to shine you...