Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre

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The wealth created jobs, raised buildings and attracted newcomers from far and wide, seeking fortune and a fresh start.

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Question 2

Its residents descended from Black Indians, from formerly enslaved people, and from Exodusters, who moved West in the late 1800s fleeing the violence and racism of the segregated South

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Question 3

Train tracks divided the Black and White communities

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Question 4

Segregation laws called for separate neighborhoods, schools, phone booths, and railroad and streetcar coaches.

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Question 5

Unfair tests made it hard for Blacks to register to vote.

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And laws barred marriages across racial lines.

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Question 7

The name later became Black Wall Street, and the community kept thriving

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Question 8

There were furriers, a pool hall, a bus system, and an auto shop - nearly two hundred businesses in all.

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Question 9

Once upon a time in Greenwood, there were barbershops and beauty salons

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Question 10

The soda fountain at William Confectionery was the backdrop for scores of marriage proposals

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And there was the luxurious Stratford Hotel, then the largest Black-owned hotel in the nation.

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Question 12

There were even six privately owned airplanes

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Question 13

All it took was one elevator ride, one seventeen-year-old white elevator operator accusing a nineteen-year-old Black shoeshine man of assault for simmering hatred to boil over.

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Question 14

At the jail, they faced off with two thousand armed whites.

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But the worst was yet to come

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Question 16

Unable to to get to the jailed suspect, the white mob sparked rumors that the Black community planned to attack.

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Question 17

Threatening to shoot, the mob blocked firefighters from putting out the blazes.

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Question 18

But they were outnumbered and outgunned.

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Question 19

Families fled with only what they could carry.

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Question 20

Hundreds more were injured.

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Question 21

More than eight thousand people were left homeless.

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And hundreds of businesses and other establishments were reduced to ash.

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Question 23

For decades, survivors did not speak of the terror.

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Question 24

Seventy-five years passed before lawmakers launched an investigation to uncover the painful truth about the worst racial attack in United States history

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Question 25

But the park is not just a bronze monument to the past.

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Question 26

It is a place to realize the responsibility we all have to reject hatred and violence and to instead choose hope.

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