68: Episode 68: The Tulsa Race Massacre
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🗓️ 1 February 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
On the morning of May 31st 1921, 19-year-old Dick Rowland, a Black shoeshiner, was accused of assaulting Sarah Page, the 17-year-old white elevator operator of the Drexel Building. After being arrested, a white mob formed outside of the county courthouse, where he was being held, with the intention of taking Rowland out and murdering him. The black citizens of Tulsa knew that Rowland was innocent and that they needed to do something in order to keep him alive. But when the mixture of the angry white men, combined with the concerned black men, violence broke out. Over 18 hours a white mob attacked residents, homes and businesses in the predominantly black Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma, destroying everything in their path.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, I'm Steph. I'm off this time. You did changing it up. How are you doing? I'm great. I'm excited for |
| 0:28.6 | Things that are coming that we can't mention yet not the fun but keep your eye up for the next week or so yeah in a time frame |
| 0:38.1 | Involving around seven days. I was like seven what? Jelly beans. Yes. That's what my physics professor used to say. He'd be like seven what jelly beans. Oh, I hate that. That's like English teachers being like, I don't know, can you? Yeah, like may I go to the bathroom? |
| 0:54.1 | Right. |
| 0:55.1 | Well. |
| 0:56.1 | But yeah, anyway, we're excited to share things with you when we can and we will soon. |
| 1:01.8 | Anyway, it is Black Hill. And we will soon. |
| 1:05.0 | Anyway, it is Black History Month. Yes, it is. |
| 1:06.0 | When this comes out, when we're recording it is not yet, but... |
| 1:10.0 | Oh, yeah, well, it comes out on February 1st so therefore is Black History month and I wanted to talk about a story |
| 1:17.3 | Having to do with Black History because hello important shit you know what I mean and this one's important like I know the |
| 1:25.2 | high-level details but I feel like I do not understand the full scope of the |
| 1:29.7 | story no and I mean the thing with so many of these stories is that we weren't taught about them. |
| 1:36.4 | Yeah. Like there's just so many black stories that are so important to the history of our country that was either mentioned and then just |
| 1:47.2 | whitewashed or completely just erased altogether. |
| 1:51.1 | And like this is one of those that like might may have been mentioned in your |
| 1:55.0 | schooling but was not taught I mean like I know that I learned about this like maybe |
| 2:01.2 | last year which is insane because it was the hundred years after it happened |
| 2:05.9 | it was like the centennial of the of the massacre yeah it's insane so I mean just |
| 2:12.3 | wanted to talk about it and, you know, spread the story because you can't |
| 2:16.8 | have change without awareness, you know? |
| 2:19.4 | So anyway, shall we just jump on it? |
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