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Black History Year

The Price of White Terror with Tracy Manning-Gibbs

Black History Year

PushBlack

History, Society & Culture

4.32.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

White terrorism has lasting consequences. For the Greenwood District of Tulsa, Oklahoma, the generational wealth they spent 15 years independently building was obliterated in a 24 hour period of racist violence. 100 years later, the community formerly known as Black Wall Street is still economically struggling in the massacre's aftermath. On this episode, we're going straight to the source again to unpack the economic devastation of the Tulsa Race Massacre with Tracy Manning-Gibbs, descendant of a survivor. We'll dig deep into the lingering trauma and financial consequences of white tyranny – and chart a path forward to rebuilding our communities. PushBlack exists because we saw we had to take this into our own hands. BHY is produced by PushBlack, the nation's largest non-profit Black media company – hit us up at BlackHistoryYear.com and share this with your people! You make PushBlack happen with your contributions at https://BlackHistoryYear.com​. Most people do 5 or 10 bucks a month, but everything makes a difference. Thanks for supporting the work. The Black History Year production team includes Tareq Alani, Abeni Jones, Patrick Sanders, Tasha Taylor, William Anderson, Jareyah Bradley, Brooke Brown, Shonda Buchanan, Briona Lamback, Akua Tay, Leslie Taylor-Grover, and Darren Wallace. Our producers are Cydney Smith and Ivana Tucker, who also edits the podcast. Black History Year’s Executive Producer is Julian Walker. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Black Wall Street, they were a community that worked together.

0:08.0

So today we have to begin to build those same things within our community in order to

0:12.6

be successful.

0:14.1

We have to be a community of African Americans that can build and that can trust one another

0:20.2

in that building.

0:26.6

It all started with a vision, a vision of a self-sustained community, where the dictates

0:33.6

of white supremacy couldn't touch the people.

0:37.2

And so, with this idea in hand, heart and mind, a group of black entrepreneurs, innovators

0:43.5

and visionaries went to work, building on a 40 acre plight of land, the district of

0:48.3

Greenwood, also known as Black Wall Street.

0:52.7

In this space, the impossible was possible.

0:57.6

Independence, generational wealth, communism, all of it was being built and fostered for

1:03.3

us, by us.

1:06.0

Our people were thriving, y'all.

1:09.1

Until, in 1921, only a century ago, Envious White Tulsons saw their opportunity to bring

1:18.4

this affluent black community to its knees.

1:22.7

Within 24 hours, Black Wall Street, a community that took 15 years to build, was destroyed,

1:30.5

and then estimated 300 people slaughtered, leaving generations of descendants to grapple

1:36.0

with the trauma and economic fallout of racial violence.

1:41.6

I'm Jay with Push Black, and today on Black History Year, we're returning to the Tulsa

1:46.6

Race Massacre, and unpacking the financial consequences of white terrorism.

1:53.8

As we did earlier this season, we're sitting down with someone whose family has directly

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