We're at the beginning of truth.

I'm standing in Oklahoma in the cemetery with a guy named Cabin Ross.

Cabin's an activist, a photographer, he's a big guy with a bellowing voice and he can

tell you everything you'd want to know about the history of this place.

We're here standing where we are walking through as one of the most early cemeteries

in the city.

We're here in the cemetery next to a busy highway because it's central to the search

for the truth that Cabin's talking about.

One hundred years ago this week, the Greenwood District, a bustling business sector known

as Black Wall Street, was burned to the ground by a white mob.

The tragedy known today as the Tulsa of Race Massacre was one of the worst incidents

of racial violence in the history of this country and until recently one of the least known.

For decades the government wouldn't even acknowledge that the massacre ever happened.

We've been told a lie, we've been banned booze, you noticed that, led astray all these

years and in the pretense that it never happened or don't talk about it.

The Oklahoma Bureau of Vital Statistics recorded 26 Black victims back in 1921, but experts

estimate the number is closer to 300 and none of the white perpetrators were ever held responsible

for the murders.

So the Black folks doing that time did not have the opportunity to be able to heal to more

on the laws, they were left with ashes, enrouble and heartache.

White political leaders tried to bury the truth along with all those Black victims of the

riot and they pretty much succeeded for 76 years until 1997 when the state legislature

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