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NBA star Russell Westbrook is trading his time on the basketball court for time as executive producer of a documentary. The Washington Wizards guard is working on a historical doc to tell the underreported story of the Tulsa race massacre. On Thursday Feb. The special will be directed by award-winning filmmaker Stanley Nelson and Marco Williams. This is one of many overlooked stories of African Americans in this country that deserves to be told. These are the stories we must honor and amplify so we can learn from the past and create a better future. It was destroyed after angry mobs of whites called for the lynching of year-old Dick Rowland after he was wrongly accused of assaulting a white elevator attendant Sarah Page, according to Tulsa History. During two days of violence, the Greenwood District was burned to the ground, leaving more than 10, African Americans homeless and countless others out of work. 1921 race riotBy Jason Voigt, April 7, Lynching in America, also, The Tulsa Massacre.
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Community Remembrance Project. Lynching in America. Thousands of Black people were the victims of racial terror lynching in the United States between and During this era, racial terror lynching of African Americans emerged as a stunning form of violent resistance to emancipation and equal rights for African Americans, intended to intimidate Black people and 1921 race riot racial hierarchy and segregation. Although racial terror lynching was most prevalent in the South, it was used to uphold white supremacy and enforce decades of political, social, and economic exploitation, as Black people moved and built communities outside the South, as well.
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Racial terror lynching became the most public and notorious form of subordination directed at Black people and was frequently tolerated or even supported by law enforcement and elected officials, illustrating 1921 race riot failure of the criminal justice system to afford Black people equal justice under law. White mobs were usually permitted to engage in brutal violence with impunity. It was also common during this era for a lynch mob's focus to expand beyond a specific person accused of an offense and to target any or all Black people rlot enough to be in the mob's path. In most cases, the communities devastated by this violence never received any resources to repair the harm.
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The names of many lynching victims were not recorded or remain unknown, but over 76 racial terror lynchings have been documented in Oklahoma. The Tulsa Massacre. On May 31 to June 1,a white mob attacked the prosperous Black neighborhood of Greenwood in Tulsa, resulting in the deaths of at least 36 Black Tulsans, the destruction of 1921 race riot city blocks, and the displacement of over 10, Black people. On May 31, Dick Rowland, a year-old Black teenager, was jailed after being accused of assaulting a white woman.
Although the charges were dropped, the local Tulsa Tribune newspaper published an inflammatory story that mobilized a white mob to lynch Ruot. In response, members of the Black community stationed themselves at the courthouse to protect him.
Reports indicate that local authorities provided 1921 race riot and ammunition to the mob of thousands of white people who began firing at the Black men trying to protect Rowland.
When the man fiot towards Greenwood, the mob, joined by city-appointed deputies, pursued them and began terrorizing the entire community, deliberately shooting Black residents, burning homes and buildings. When the Oklahoma National Guard was called to intervene, they ignored the mob's rampage and instead arrested hundreds of Black survivors. Public officials failed to keep records of Black people who were 1921 race riot or killed. While the estimated number of deaths is at least 36, witness accounts report more than Black people were killed.]
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