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Burning homes and businesses and murdering an unknown number of actual sans. in 1997, the oklahoma state senate forced the first investigation into what happened. they were charged with finding out the basic questions of what happened. who and how many died? where are they buried and are reparations appropriate? 24 years later, we still don t have answers. i want to welcome hannibal johnson. he chairs the education committee for the tulsa race massacre. thank you so much for joining us. i appreciate it. i want to take people through the a, b, cs here and specifically how the massacre began. and it was part of essentially this inflammatory article that was published by the tulsa tribune, talking about an assault accusation made on an elevator operator, a woman. can you talk to us about that? sure. i think we first have to look at the national context in which the 1921 tulsa race massacre ....
Happened. sociologists and historians talk about the nadir point of race relations in america, referring to the early part of the 20th century. we know that red summer occurred summer and fall of 1919. red is a metaphorical reference for blood that flowed in the streets from 24 major so-called race riots in america. this is also the time in which lynching was proliferating across the country. lynching really is a form of domestic terrorism. so it s in this national context that the event here in tulsa occurred. and tulsa was on its way to becoming the oil capital of the world during this period. so a lot of attention around the nation was focused on the city. the black community in the greenwood district, fondly called black wall street, was situated on a parcel of land that was desired by the railroads and other corporate interests. in addition, the klan had a huge presence in tulsa and in oklahoma during the 1920s. ....
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Former u.s. attorney joyce vance. joyce, great to see you this afternoon and thanks for joining us on this. i spoke with allen weisselberg s former daughter-in-law jennifer weisselberg yesterday who was served an election notice this week according to her in retaliation for cooperating with investigators. let s take a listen to what she had to say. now i have to get a real estate lawyer on top of it and try to fight, even though there is a moratorium on covid, and i have spoken to the attorney general s office about it. it doesn t matter. rules don t apply to the trumps or weisselbergs. donald trump knows the owner of my building. they do real estate deals together for decades, 40, 50 decades. and so they have the influence to say we will withdraw all future real estate deals with you and your management company if you do not do what we say. , you have if this turns out to be true, are there any reper indications, implications for ....