“THE GREENWOOD RACE MASSACRE” #WeirdDarkness
Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Darren Marlar
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 June 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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IN THIS EPISODE: Greenwood Avenue featured luxury shops, restaurants, movie theaters, a library, pool halls and nightclubs… until late May and early June of 1921. It was almost exactly 99 years ago today that a brutal race riot took place in this suburb of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Which is tragically ironic, watching the news and seeing what is happening all over the USA today in early June of 2020. You could almost think that nothing has changed. We’ll look at what happened in Greenwood, Oklahoma 99 years ago.
(Dark Archives episode from June 03, 2020)
SOURCES AND ESSENTIAL WEB LINKS…
BOOK: “Black Wall Street: From Riot to Renaissance in Tulsa’s Historic Greenwood District” by Hannibal Johnson: https://amzn.to/2ABwQ69
“The Greenwood Race Massacre” from Alexis Clark: https://tinyurl.com/qkb6cs7, and the editors at History.com: https://tinyurl.com/yxpzw2cc
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| 2:34.9 | Coming up in this episode of WeirdDarkness. Greenwood Avenue featured luxury shops, restaurants, |
| 2:42.2 | movie theaters, a library, cool halls and nightclubs, until late May and early June of 1921. |
| 2:50.4 | The brutal race riots took place in this suburb of Tulsa, Oklahoma, which is tragically |
| 2:56.2 | ironic, watching the news and seeing what is happening all over the USA today. You could |
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