The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story
In 1921, the "Oil Capital of the World" had a population of 100,000... and a Ku Klux Klan with a membership of over 3,000.
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|2000|80 minDocuments the race riot of 1921 and the destruction of the African-American community of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma. With testimony by eyewitnesses and background accounts by historians.
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