Encore: Tulsa Race Massacre | Bearing Witness | 5

American History Tellers

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History, Education For Kids, Kids & Family, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 23 June 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Like many Americans, Anneliese Bruner didn’t hear about the Tulsa Race Massacre growing up. But what made it surprising in her case was that her grandmother and great-grandmother were survivors of the massacre. Still, a conspiracy of silence surrounded the events of May 31 and June 1, 1921, even in Bruner’s own home.

Today, Bruner is fighting to change that. This year, she re-published her great-grandmother Mary Parrish’s written account of the destruction under the title The Nation Must Awake: My Witness to the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921. On this episode, she joins Lindsay to discuss the massacre’s legacy, the efforts to restore its place in American history, and the case for offering reparations to survivors and their descendents.

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members, you can listen to American History Tellers add free on Amazon Music,
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0:09.0	Imagine it's been a long day, and you're tired to the bone.
0:21.6	You just returned to Greenwood from the fancy Tulsa Hotel where you work as a porter.
0:25.9	There's a part of you that can't believe you're back at your job, working for the white
0:29.8	folks after what they did, but you've got a family to feed.
0:33.5	Tonight though, you somehow found the energy to come out to the high school.
0:37.2	The Greenwood Relief Committee and the pastors have called a meeting, supposedly to discuss
0:41.8	the offers all those white men have been making to buy up all of your neighbor's land.
0:46.0	One of them came by your tent just last week, and you've been thinking about his offer
0:49.7	ever since.
0:51.3	In the crowd, you catch sight of your neighbor, Isaiah.
0:53.8	He looks as tired and wrung out as you feel.
0:56.6	Isaiah!
0:57.6	How are you in Georgina doing, brother?
1:00.2	Best we can, I guess.
1:02.2	Sure glad it's dry today.
1:03.8	We're sick of all this rain, the tent leaking in on.
1:07.0	How about you?
1:08.0	I'm dying to know what this committee has to say.
1:10.6	But I'll be honest, Isaiah.
1:12.6	I'm pretty sure I'm going to sell.
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