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Weird Darkness: Stories of the Paranormal, True Crime, Legends, Lore, Mysterious, Macabre, Unsolved

“THE GREENWOOD RACE MASSACRE” #WeirdDarkness

Weird Darkness: Stories of the Paranormal, True Crime, Legends, Lore, Mysterious, Macabre, Unsolved

Darren Marlar

True Crime, History, Society & Culture, Documentary, Science, Religion & Spirituality

4.64K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Greenwood Avenue featured luxury shops, restaurants, movie theaters, a library, pool halls and nightclubs‚Ķ until late May and early June of 1921. Then a brutal race riot took place in this suburb of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Which is tragicallyironic, watching the news and seeing what is happening all over the USA today. You could almost think that nothing has changed. We‚Äôll look at what happened in Greenwood, Oklahoma over 100 years ago.¬Ý

SOURCES AND REFERENCES FROM THE EPISODE…
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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Originally aired: June 02, 2020

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Coming up in this episode of Weird Darkness, Greenwood Avenue featured luxury shops, restaurants, movie

2:09.4

theatres, a library, pool halls and nightclubs.

2:13.4

Until late May and early June of 1921, a brutal race riot took place in this suburb of Tulsa,

2:20.7

Oklahoma, which is tragically ironic watching the news and seeing what is happening

2:26.8

all over the USA today. You could almost think that nothing has changed.

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