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I will shut my dirty little mouth, and let's get right into it. Today we are dabbling
in some American history. Woo! As uncomfortable as American History can be, it's still important that
we talk about it, right? I'm sure we can all agree on that,
at least I hope, because there is something
always to be learnt from it. So, we're going to Oklahoma. That's right baby, Oklahoma. ♫ Oklahoma ♫ In 1921, Oklahoma had a racially, socially,
and politically tense atmosphere. The First World War had ended in 1918, with the return of many
ex-servicemen coming back home. Civil rights was still lacking,
for many people, and the Ku Klux Klan was on the rise. The Ku Klux Klan-- I should have looked up
like when they started, but I think it was around this time. But they were on the rise,
and they were becoming more, and more popular,
and more well know, unfortunately. Tulsa, Oklahoma, was a booming oil city, which supported a large number
of affluent, educated, and professional African Americans. This caused tensions in the city, and a combination of factors
played a part in all of this really. It was mainly like just racial tensions. Oklahoma was admitted as a state,
in November of 1907. The newly created state legislator,
passed Jim Crow laws, which were state, and local laws,
that enforced racial segregation. The 1907 Oklahoma constitution, did not call for strict segregation, but still the very first law passed,
segregated all rail travel, and voter registration rules, which effectively disenfranchised
most of the Black Community. So, that meant that they were also
not allowed to serve on juries, or in local office. Now these laws were in place, until after the passing of
the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965, which was 60 years after this event
that we're talking about today. On August 14th, 1916, Tulsa passed a law that
mandated residential segregation by forbidding blacks or whites,
from residing on any block, where 3/4 or more of the residents
were of the other race. Now the United States Supreme Court declared this was unconstitutional
the following year. Tulsa, and many other
Southern cities continued to establish, and enforce segregation
for the next three decades. They didn't give a shit. They were playing by their own rules. Since 1915, the Ku Klux Klan
had been growing in urban chapters across the country. By the end of 1921, Tulsa had about 3,200
residents in the Klan by one estimate. And the city's population was 72,000 in 1920. There's a lot of people in the Ku Klux Klan
is what I’m saying. So, Greenwood was a district in Tulsa,
organized in 1906. Greenwood became so successful,
that it was known as "The Black Wall Street". So, the Black Community had created their
own businesses and services in this area, and several grocery stores,
two movie theaters. They had night clubs. They had restaurants,
numerous churches, and even their own newspaper. Oh yes. They had Black professionals
including dentists, doctors, lawyers, all lived, and worked in this area as well. Now because the Black Community
was not welcome in other towns, or cities, or even to live on
like the same block as white people, so instead they decided "Hey, let's start
our own successful town, let's do it ourselves". And that's what they did. So, Greenwood residents
selected their own leaders, and raised capital there
to support economic growth. I mean they took it into thei
own hands, they’re like "Look, the white men are not gonna allow us
to be successful in their neighborhood," "or be successful contributing members of
society in their neighborhoods," "so, let’s just take it into our own hands". Which they did. They built their own town,
their own neighborhood, that was very successful. And of course, this caught attention
from the White Community. It fed into the racism that was going on, because "How dare they start their own
successful neighborhood?" "And how dare they
be more successful than us?". They didn’t like that. On May 30th, 1921, a young black teenager
named Dick Rowland, who worked as a shoe shiner,
employed at a Main Street shine parlor. He had entered an elevator
at the Drexel Building, which was an office building
on South Main Street. It’s believed Rowland may have been trying to get to the
only restroom in the building, but its unsure. He goes into the building,
and he goes to the elevator. Now the woman operating the elevator
was a white woman, named Sarah Page. And Dick Rowland had entered the elevator, and what happened on the elevator,
is unknown exactly. But what we do know,
is that at some point, while the two were on the elevator Sarah Page had screamed,
and Dick Rowland was seen running out of the elevator. The guy who was working
the front desk in the building, he ran over to the elevator,
and he saw Sarah, in what he said, was a "distraught state",
and he called the police. The police came out,
and most likely questioned Sarah, but there was no written account anywhere
of her statement, that has been found. They must’ve been like "Oh I’ll just remember it with my mind",
or they burnt it, we don’t know. Most believe that the police had determined
what happened between the two, and then authorities conducted
like a low-key investigation of their own, without doing the proper paperwork. Now unfortunately, people were talking. Rumors were swirling. Not even long after the
incident took place, about what supposedly happened
on that elevator, it had circulated through
the city’s White Community. A front-page story in the Tulsa Tribune, reported that police had arrested Rowland
for sexually assaulting Page. This is what they put on the
front page of their newspaper, that Rowland had sexually assaulted Page. Mind you, this didn’t happen. I know it’s a spoiler,
but he didn’t sexually assault her, they were just being shitty people, okay. But they ran it. Oh baby they ran that story. Front page? Front page, you don’t think that’s
gonna get people a lil' riled up? Of course, it is, it's 1921. They’re just waiting for an excuse to rage. The white people that is. This newspaper gets out there, and Rowland had a
good reason to be scared, because at this time,
an accusation alone could put him at risk for an attack by angry mobs
of white people. He knew his life is now in danger. So, Rowland now fearing his life
for good reason, Rowland decided to stay with his mother, who lived in the Greenwood neighborhood. So, he went there to try and hide out, until hopefully things calmed down. On the morning after the incident,
Rowland was located and arrested, and taken to the Tulsa city jail, then was transferred, due to the jail
receiving threatening phone calls, from people saying that they were going to
kill Rowland, and to just hand him over, because they were going to take care of him. “They” meaning the angry white people. So, as night-time approached, an angry white mob was
gathering outside the courthouse, where Rowland was at. And they were demanding
that the Sheriff hand over Rowland. The Sheriff, Willard McCullough,
he refused to hand over Rowland, and his officers barricaded
the top floor to protect him as well. They shut down the building’s elevators, and had the remaining men
barricade themselves at the top of the stairs, with orders to shoot
any intruders in sight, pretty much if they came up,
and were trying to get through. The sheriff though decided, "I’m just gonna go outside,
and try and like talk to the angry people," "angry white people,
try to calm them down". So, he goes out there,
tries to calm them down, and send them home,
but he had no luck. They were not going anywhere. They were not going
unless he handed over Rowland. The angry mob wanted
Rowland lynched, and were protesting
to Lynch Rowland. Now, a few blocks away, members of the community gathered,
and discussed what was going on. What happened to Rowland? Why was everyone angry? Like "What are we gonna do to calm this down,
and make sure that Rowland is okay?". They were trying their best
to come up with a plan to prevent the crowd
from lynching Rowland, because let’s be real, it was probably
going to happen if they allowed it. At around 9 p.m., a group of about 25 armed
black men, including some World War I veterans, they went to the courthouse, to offer help
guarding Rowland from the growing mob. Now, the reason it’s said why they went
down there in the first place, because naturally, y'know
people want to think like, "Well they were trying to
start something by going down there," "and they shouldn’t have done that". But the reason they said that they
went down there in the first place, was because the main Sheriff,
Sheriff McCullough, he personally told them their
presence was required at the courthouse. So, 25 of them, they go out there,
and the Sheriff turns them away. Saying they were not needed,
but 10 witnesses said that they were just following the order
from the Sheriff in the first place. That he personally asked for them to be there. The sheriff went out,
made like a public statement, saying "I never asked for them", he’s publicly denying that he gave any orders
for them to be there. So, little frustrated, but they were just
trying to follow the rules. Now, seeing the armed
Black Community show up, many of the white mob tried to unsuccessfully
break into the National Guard armory nearby, they were trying to break in, steal guns,
and also get more ammunition. So, rumors are still circling around that
there’s going to be a possible lynching. Obviously, people from the Greenwood
community were getting nervous about this, that this is probably going to happen, it’s
going to happen unless they stand their ground. 75 members of the Greenwood community, they had returned to the courthouse, armed, and they showed up there around 10 p.m., they just were there to make sure
that nothing happened to Rowland, like it was simple as that, y'know? Unfortunately, though, there was
only 75 of them. When they got to the courthouse, they see
that there were over 1,500 angry white people. 1,500 verses 75, scary. Now, according to witnesses, a white man is alleged to have told
one of the armed black men, to surrender his pistol, course it was probably
more aggressive than that, but pretty much telling him to
"Give me your gun" or whatever, y'know. But the man refused, and a shot was fired. Now some say that it may have been accidental, or it was meant to be a warning. but because of this one shot, it turned into
many firing their weapons at one another. So, after shots were fired,
pretty much chaos broke out. Mhm. One gunshot pretty much started everybody
getting out of control. So those who came from Greenwood,
they pretty much retreated on foot, back to Greenwood,
some in vehicles, I’m sorry. But they pretty much
went back to Greenwood. The armed white mob,
instead of just leaving them alone, they decided to follow them,
back into Greenwood. So, a lot of the angry white mobsters, they stopped to loot local stores for additional
weapons and ammunition. Along the way, any bystanders, who they saw
like leaving a movie theatre, maybe like the show has just ended,
they’re walking out, someone leaving a restaurant or whatever, the angry white people, they shot them. They were just shooting anybody
that they saw, who was black. So, panic had set in,
because the angry white mob, they began firing on any
black people that they saw, turning quickly into an angry white riot. At around 11 p.m., members of
the National Guard unit, began to assemble at the armory,
to organize a plan to subdue the rioters. Several groups were deployed downtown
to set up guard at the courthouse, also, at the police station,
and other public facilities. The forces appeared to have been deployed
to protect the white districts, which were adjacent to Greenwood,
and not there to protect Greenwood itself, or the community, AKA
the Black Community at all. It was there to protect
the angry white people. As the evening continued, the National Guard
rounded up numerous black people, and took them to the Convention Hall
on Brady Street for detention. Why they were being arrested, and detained? Well, to simply put it, they were being arrested
because they were black. I mean, they didn’t have guns-- there were many people arrested,
detained, and taken in, who were not armed, who were just fucking
minding their own damn business. And that’s a fact, I mean that’s not
even up for debate. Some people try to debate it but... I don’t know why. So, many prominent white Tulsans,
also participated in the riot, including Tulsa founder and
Ku Klux Klan member, W. Tate Brady, who participated in the riot
as a night watchman. He showed up like
"Oh, I’m gonna help with this shit!". So, June 1st, 1921, throughout the early morning, small groups of whites made it into Greenwood
by car, some on foot, but mainly on car, and was just shooting with no rhyme or reason
into businesses and residences, and they would throw lighted oil rags into
several buildings along the streets, setting whatever was in their path on fire. Then crews from the
Tulsa Fire Department came to town, y'know, they arrived, right? To put out the fires, as fireman do. So, they showed up, and they were there
to put out the fires, but the firefighters were
turned away at gunpoint, by the angry white mob. They would not allow them
to enter into the town and put out the fires. So, residents inside Greenwood, many of them
began to get their handguns, or something to
defend their neighborhood, while a lot more
tried to flee the town completely. They had to get out. But throughout the night,
both sides continued fighting. According to a Red Cross estimate, around
1,256 houses were burned throughout the night, 215 others were looted, but not set on fire. Two newspaper companies, schools, a library,
a hospital, churches, hotels, stores and many other black-owned businesses
were destroyed, or damaged by fire. For what? We know what, because they were
racist and angry! It’s believed that 100 to 300 people
were killed during this massacre. Numerous eyewitnesses described airplanes
flying above the town, and they were firing their rifles,
out of the airplane, and they also dropped firebombs
on buildings, homes and families. Law enforcement personnel were thought to
be aboard at least some of those airplanes, but there were some flights
said to be privately owned. By who? Y'know? By who? Eyewitness accounts, such as
testimony from the survivors, during Commission hearings and a manuscript
by eyewitnesses, discovered in 2015, said that on the morning of June 1st, at least "a dozen or more"
planes circled the neighborhood and dropped "burning turpentine balls"
on an office building, a hotel, a gas station and multiple other buildings. Men also fired rifles at young and old black
residents, gunning them down in the street, Where they just left everybody, in the street. Law enforcement officials, y'know,
stepped in, gave a little statement. They’re like "Look, those airplanes," "they were put there
to simply provide safety and protect" "against a 'N-word' uprising". In other parts of the city, where, y'know, there was a lot of middle-class white families,
who employed black people in their homes, as live-in cooks and servants. Well, the angry white rioters
went to their homes, and they demanded that the families turn over their employees
to be taken to detention centers around the city. Now because these angry white people
are showing up with fucking rifles, and fucking shit, many of them complied,
because if they didn’t, well, they were harassed by the rioters and
their homes were then vandalized. So, then the governor of Oklahoma-- Well I kinda already mentioned this. But the governor of Oklahoma had ordered the
National Guards to come in, y'know? So, 109 troops from Oklahoma City,
and then following that, Oklahoma City was put under martial law, which would be established that day. So, troops were pretty much arresting anyone
and everyone who was black, and then requiring them, requiring the detainees
to carry identification cards. And it’s said as many as 6,000 black Greenwood
residents, were held at three local facilities: They had the Convention Hall, which would
be now known as the Brady Theater, the Tulsa County Fairgrounds, which then it
was located about a mile north east of Greenwood, and McNulty Park, which was a-- Or is a baseball stadium,
is it still a baseball stadium? Probably. Some were held aat these locations
for as long as eight days. For what you ask? For being black. Martial law was declared around 11:30 AM, and by noon the troops had managed to suppress
most of the remaining violence. In the hours after the
Tulsa Race Massacre, all charges against Dick Rowland were dropped. Sarah, the woman who was working
the elevator, she decided that she didn’t want to press charges,
or she dropped the charges. So, the police had concluded that Rowland had most likely
just stumbled into Page, or even stepped on her foot,
while they were both in the elevator, which lead to her kind of shrieking,
or screaming, whatever she did. Rowland, who was kept safely under guard
in the jail during the riot, he ended up being exonerated,
and he left Tulsa the next morning, and reportedly never returned. I mean yay for Rowland, but 35 city blocks were completely destroyed, over 800 people were treated
for their injuries, and the “official” tally of deaths in
the massacre was 36 people. Which, now, historians consider much too low. The Tulsa Race Massacre stood as one of the
deadliest riots in U.S. history, behind only the New York Draft Riots of 1863,
which killed 119 people. In the years to come, as the Black Community worked to rebuild
their ruined homes, and businesses, segregation in the city only increased,
and Oklahoma’s newly established branch of the KKK grew in strength. Of course, how the newspaper was playing this,
was of course trying to make the Black Community out to be the bad ones,
like they tend to do. For decades, there was no
public ceremonies, there were no memorials for the dead, or any efforts to even acknowledge
the events taken place between May 31st and June 1st, 1921. Instead, there was a deliberate effort to
cover the whole thing up, like it never happened. Yep, that’s right. Tulsa massacre what’s that? Rumors... (humming) That’s how I imagine the people
in the office were. "What’s that? "Never heard of it." "Never happened, no". Remember the Tulsa Tribune? They were the newspaper who
reported the story in the first place, and essentially caused the outrage. Well guess what? They removed the front-page story
of May 31st from its bound volumes. Essentially erasing it form its records,
like it never happened. They should be held accountable. Scholars later discovered that police
and state archives about the riot, were completely missing as well. As a result, until recently, the Tulsa Race
Massacre was rarely mentioned in history books, it wasn’t taught in schools,
or even talked about. In 1996, on the riot’s 75th anniversary, a service was held
at the Mount Zion Baptist Church, which rioters had
burned to the ground, and a memorial was placed in front of
Greenwood Cultural Center. The following year,
an official state government commission was created to investigate
the Tulsa Race Riot. Scientists and historians began
looking into long-ago stories, including numerous victims
buried in unmarked graves. In 2001, the report of the
Race Riot Commission concluded that between 100 and 300 people were killed, and more than 8,000 people
were made homeless over those 18 hours in 1921. Over the next year local citizens filed more
than 1.8 million dollars in riot related claims against the city, they did that by June of 1922. Now, despite the promise of funding, many people from
the Greenwood community spent the winter of
1921 and 1922 in tents, as they worked to rebuild their neighborhood. Oh yes, they were living in tents,
set up by the Red Cross. Most of the promised funding
was never raised for the residents, and they struggled to rebuild
after the violence. They had little to no financial help. In order to continue rebuilding,
a new fire code was said to be set in place, to prevent another tragedy from happening, and they were going to do this by banning wooden frame houses
in place of the previously burnt homes. Now, because of this new fire code that was
supposedly being set in place, it halted all construction
and caused major delays. So they weren’t even allowed to rebuild
until this new fire code was set in place. So they’re just sitting, and waiting,
and they keep putting it off, putting it off, putting it off,
and they were doing that on purpose, because they wanted to take the land over. So, the Reconstruction Committee simply failed
to formulate a single plan moving forward, which left many of the residents prohibited
from rebuilding for several months, because it was going
against the “fire code”. City planners though, they immediately saw
the fire that destroyed homes, and businesses across Greenwood,
as a really good thing. They were like
"Hey! Awesome! There’s a bunch of open land!". Because they had plans
for this new land, okay? Showing a complete disregard
for the welfare of affected residents. But they were like "Oh hell yeah". You know why? (sigh) Because they were making plans of their own,
on what they wanted to do with the area. Plans were immediately made to rezone
'The Burned Area' for industrial use. The reconstruction committee wanted to have
the black landholders sign over their properties, and less than two years later, a large central rail hub
called the Tulsa Union Depot was built, where many of the homes
and businesses destroyed used to be. Now this is not a fact, but a personal opinion
that I stand by, and truly believe. They were purposely blaming this "fire code"
to prevent them from building in this area, because they knew,
the white Oklahomians, they knew that they wanted to
take this land over. And they didn’t want to
give them 1.8 million dollars, so, they kept putting it off,
putting it off, putting it off, and eventually the people who were living
in tents, trying to rebuild, they had no money, right? They had no homes. They were growing more
and more exhausted, so they left. And some of the landholders were offered a
small compensation for their land, but it was said to not be much,
y'know, like it... (hums in disagreeance) They had no option at that point. Because they had all this extra land now, it allowed for them to build
an even larger train depot, because they just had
so much extra space now. There were NO, zip, zada convictions for any
of the charges related to violence when it came to the white rioters. Because the black community paid a big price,
and a lot of them were detained. There were decades of silence about the terror,
violence, and losses of this event. The riot was largely omitted from local, state,
and national histories. A woman by the name of Mary E. Jones Parrish,
she was a young African American teacher, and journalist, from New York. She was hired to write an account of the riot. She was a survivor, and wrote about her experiences
and collected other accounts, and experiences that people she knew. She gathered photographs and compiled "a partial roster of property losses
in the African American community". She published these in
"Events of the Tulsa Disaster", which was the first book
to be published about the riot. Many who tried to share their stories to local
newspapers, city newspapers, town newspaper, wherever they could, encountered pressure, mainly by the white community, to keep silent, or they would
take the story and do nothing with it. Five elderly survivors filed a suit against
the city of Tulsa and the state of Oklahoma in February of 2003. This suit said that the state and city should
compensate the victims, and their families, to honor their admitted obligations, which
was detailed in a commissions report. The federal district and
courts dismissed the suit, citing the statute of limitations had been
exceeded on the then 80-year-old case. The state requires that civil rights cases
be filed within two years of the event. The Supreme Court of the United States-- When you hear that
"The Supreme Court of the United States", you kinda think like,
"Oh, there’s hope! right?", The Supreme Court, I mean that’s major. Any who, well they failed the people,
and they declined to hear the appeal. And this was in 2003, so I mean it’s not
like it was back in 1921. So in April 2007, there was a push
for U.S. Congress to pass a bill, that extended the statute of limitations
for this particular case, given the state and city's accountability
for the destruction, and the long suppression
of material about it. Now the bill would introduced, and heard by
the Judiciary Committee of the House, but once again, it did not pass. They Re-introduced the bill in 2009, as the John Hope Franklin Tulsa-Greenwood
Race Riot Claims Accountability Act of 2009, and then again, they re-introduced
the bill in 2012, but It has not gotten out of
the Judiciary Committee. It’s just sat there. It was named in honor of
the late Dr. John Hope Franklin, who was a firsthand witness to the destructive
impact that the riot had on the community. Dr. Franklin made numerous
contributions to the understanding of the long-term effects of
the riot on the people, and worked to keep the issue alive in history. According to the State Department of Education, it has required the topic
in Oklahoma history classes since 2000, and the incident has been included in Oklahoma
history books since 2009, but it wasn’t required really, country-wide
or anything to actually learn about it. So, a bill in the Oklahoma State Senate, requiring that all Oklahoma high schools teach
the Tulsa Race Riot, failed to pass in 2012. The opponents, the people
who were against this bill, claimed "Schools are already learning about
this riot, we don’t need to make it a bill". And in November 2018,
the 1921 Race Riot Commission was officially renamed the 1921 Race Massacre Commission. Nearly a century later,
in April of 2020-- Yes, in April of 2020! This happened in 1921, Tulsa plans to dig
for suspected mass graves, in a city owned cemetery, that may have been
used to dispose the victims’ bodies. (sigh) They believe that
there’s a mass grave somewhere. There has to be. Unfortunately, there really isn’t much of
a happy ending to this story. But my friends, that is the awful
story about the Tulsa Race Massacre. What is owed this community 99 years later
is a repairing, education, and economic incentives, something more than symbolic gestures, or
an official report as an apology extended to the survivors. It’s in the Oklahoma legislature’s hands
and it has been for a long time. I’m sure we can both agree that this story
is just absolutely horrific. And it’s a good example, for anyone out
there who likes to say like "Well why didn’t they just start their community
then and be successful?". 'Cause I’ve seen shit like that. And it’s like well they did. They did just that, and it was
taken away from them. It was burnt to the ground,
along with their families, their family members,
their wives, their kids. Destroyed. Taken from them. They were punished for succeeding. And this, the Tulsa race massacre, was just a small little bump in the road
of racism, abuse, murder, and attacks that they have
faced in this country. The Black Community during this time,
they had just come back from World War I. They were serving a country,
it wasn’t even their country. They went to war,
fought for our country, came back home, and fought another war, And it’s like, nobody
wants to acknowledge-- I’m sorry, not nobody. But a lot of people,
don’t want to acknowledge this struggle that’s
gone on for a long time. As if their lives don’t matter. And I challenge you,
to just learn some history. Read about the things that
have been suppressed for a long time, like this. The 99th anniversary just passed, next year is going to be the 100th anniversary
of the Tulsa race massacre. I don’t know, I’ll try to
think of a plan, like what can we do to help? I’m open to suggestions
in the comment sections, I don’t know how to get like
a bill passed or something. But I would love to have that to happen. These families deserve it. If you were in their shoes,
you would feel that way too. Come on! I hope this is all making sense,
I’m being very careful with my words, because a lot of people can take this as a
personal attack, and get very defensive, and that’s not what I’m trying to do, I’m just trying to have a conversation. We have to educate ourselves,
and we have to do better! Thank you, guys, so much for
hanging out with me today. I hope you have a
wonderful rest of your day. You make good choices. Please be safe out there,
wear a mask, wash your hands, Try and stay sane. Let me know who you want
me to talk about next week. Actually, in my mind,
I think I already know what I wanna talk about. Thank you so much to Hunt A Killer
for partnering with me on today’s video. I’ll be seeing you guys next week. I won’t go missing on you. Be seeing you then. Thank you for the million subscribers. Yay! (claps) That’s so crazy! Bye! (suspicious music)
This was a very interesting story, I never knew about this.
What an infuriating story! So glad to have Bailey back.
Any and all comments are welcome, as usual! Just please be mindful of our rules. :)
Speaking of being welcomed ... hello to all of our new members! I’m sorry I haven’t said that sooner. I see you all joining, I’m happy you’re here, and I hope you are too.