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After decades of silence, the history of the Tulsa Race Massacre is being told

After decades of silence, the history of the Tulsa Race Massacre is being told
>> WHEN WE OPENED THIS EXHIBIT IN 2005. THERE ARE OVER 500 MUSEUMS AND HISTORICAL SOCIETIES IN OKLAHOMA. NOT ONE HAD A PERMANENT EXHIBIT OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY. NOT ONE. SO, THIS IS IT. REPORTER: BRUCE FISHER HAS BEEN A CURATOR FOR THE OKLAHOMA HISTORY CENTER SINCE 1999 AND LARGELY RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR AFRICAN AMERICAN EXHIBIT CREATED SIX YEARS AFTER HE ARRIVED. BRUCE: THEY WERE IN THE PROCESS OF DESIGNING THIS BUILDING. WE HAD VERY LITTLE ARTIFACTS. REPORTER: FISHER바카라 게임 웹사이트S FIRST MISSION TO MAKE SURE THE STORY OF THE 1921 TULSA RACE MASSACRE WAS TOLD, ENSURING, ONE OF THE MOST PAINFUL, DARKEST AND SIGNIFICANT STORIES IN AMERICAN HISTORY HAD A PERMANENT PLACE HERE. BRUCE: HUNDREDS OF BLACK PEOPLE ARE MURDERED. EVERY HOUSE BURNED TO THE GROUND NOTHING. THERE WAS NO PRECEDENT FOR THIS. ANYWHERE. REPORTER: NEWSPAPER HEADLINES LIKE THIS ONE FROM THE BLACK DISPATCH, CHRONICLING ONLY A FRACTION OF THE UNTOLD STORY. DAYS OF MASS CHAOS AND DESTRUCTION IN THE TULSA GREENWOOD DISTRICT KILLING HUNDREDS AND BURNING BLACK WALL STREET DOWN TO ASHES, DESTROYING AFRICAN AMERICANS DREAMS OF HOPE AND PROSPERITY. FISHER BELIEVES ONE REASON THIS CRITICAL PART OF HISTORY WAS DORMANT FOR MORE THAN 70 YEARS. FEAR. BRUCE: YOU HAD PEOPLE WHO DIDN바카라 게임 웹사이트T KNOW WHETHER IT WOULD HAPPEN AGAIN. YOU HAD PEOPLE IN SMALLER COMMUNITIES IF IT HAPPENED THERE, IT MIGHT HAPPEN TO US. I THINK THAT바카라 게임 웹사이트S ONE OF THE REASONS PEOPLE DIDN바카라 게임 웹사이트T REALLY TALK ABOUT IT. REPORTER: HE SAYS MANY EVEN DENYING THE MASSACRE EVER TOOK PLACE. DESPITE THE LIVES LOST, AND DAMAGE DONE, THERE WAS PICTURES -- >> THERE WAS PICTURES AND VIDEOS, BUT NOBODY KNEW WHERE THEY WERE AND WHO HAD THEM. REPORTER: HE SAYS MANY OF THE DOCUMENTED ARTICLES HE TRIED TO COLLECT WERE ALTERED OR DELETED FROM THE ARCHIVES. BRUCE FROM 1893 UNTIL NOW, BUT : WHEN YOU GO TO THE PAGE OF MAY TWINIGHTER, MAY 31바카라 게임 웹사이트ST THE RIOT. WHEN YOU GO TO THAT PAGE IN THE NEWSPAPER, YOU SEE IT CUT OUT. EVERY NEWSPAPER WE COULD FIND AT THE ARTICLE CUT OUT. REPORTER: FISHER SAYS SOME SURVIVORS, INCLUDING HIS OWN GRANDPARENTS, MOVED TO ALL BLACK TOWNS IN OKLAHOMA OR OUT OF STATE ALTOGETHER. THE STORIES PASSED DOWN TO THEIR DESCENDANTS, FISHER SAYS IT WASN바카라 게임 웹사이트T UNTIL 75 YEARS AFTER THE MASSACRE IN 1996 WHEN STATE REPRESENTATIVE DO ROSS AND SENATOR MAXINE HORNER CREATED THE OKLAHOMA COMMISSION. THE COMMISSION CREATING A SAFE PLACE FOR SURVIVORS TO SPEAK OUT AND BE RECORDED. BRUCE YOU KNOW THIS WAS TRAUMA : ON STEROIDS. REPORTER: AND WITH THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE TULSA RACE MASSACRE APPROACHING, FISHER SAYS IT바카라 게임 웹사이트S UP TO REMAINING SURVIVORS TO CONTINUE TELLING THEIR STORIES, FOR HISTORIANS ACCURATELY DOCUMENT THEM, AND FOR SCHOOLS TO TEACH IT. BRUCE IT바카라 게임 웹사이트S GOT TO BE : INCORPORATED INTO THE CURRICULUM. THE TEACHERS HAVE A LOT OF LATITUDE ON WHAT THEY CAN USE IN THE CLASSROOM. THEY CAN바카라 게임 웹사이트T CLAIM IGNORANCE ANYMORE. REPORTER: SO THAT HISTORY DOESN바카라 게임 웹사이트T REPEAT ITSELF. VERSE THERE바카라 게임 웹사이트S NOTHING IN THE : HISTORY OF THIS COUNTRY, COMPARABLE TO THAT. THEN OR NOW. REPORTER: PATRINA ADGER, KOC
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After decades of silence, the history of the Tulsa Race Massacre is being told
It's a little more than two weeks from the 100th commemoration of the Tulsa Race Massacre 바카라 게임 웹사이트 one of the worst acts of racial violence in American history for decades, eliminated from school history books and museums in Oklahoma.바카라 게임 웹사이트When we opened this exhibit in 2005, there were over 500 museums and historical societies in Oklahoma. Not one had a permanent exhibit of African American history. Not one," Bruce Fisher said.Fisher has been a curator for the Oklahoma History Center since 1999 and largely responsible for their African American exhibit created six years after he arrived.바카라 게임 웹사이트They were in the process of designing this building,바카라 게임 웹사이트 Fisher said. 바카라 게임 웹사이트We had very little artifacts."Fisher's first mission to make sure the story of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre was told, ensuring one of the most painful, darkest and significant stories in American history had a permanent place here.바카라 게임 웹사이트Hundreds of Black people are murdered. Every house burned to the ground. Nothing, there was no precedent for this. Anywhere,바카라 게임 웹사이트 Fisher said.온라인 바카라 게임paper headlines, such as the one from the "Black Dispatch," chronicled only a fraction of the untold story. Days of mass chaos and destruction in the Tulsa Greenwood District, hundreds were killed and Black Wall Street was burned down to ashes, destroying African Americans바카라 게임 웹사이트 dreams of hope and prosperity.Fisher believes one reason this critical part of history was dormant for more than 70 years: fear.바카라 게임 웹사이트You had people who didn't know whether it would happen again," Fisher said. 바카라 게임 웹사이트You had people in smaller communities if it happened there, it might happen to us. I think that's one of the reasons people didn't really talk about it."Fisher said many even denied the massacre ever took place despite the lives lost and damage done. 바카라 게임 웹사이트There were pictures and videos, but nobody knew where they were and who had them," Fisher said.Fisher said many of the documented articles he tried to collect were altered or deleted from the archives. 바카라 게임 웹사이트From 1893 until now, but when you go to the page of May 29... May 31, the riot, when you go to that page in the newspaper, you see it cut out. Every newspaper we could find had the article cut out," Fisher said. Fisher said some survivors, including his own grandparents, moved to all-Black towns in Oklahoma or out of state altogether. The stories were passed down to their descendants.Fisher said it wasn't until 75 years after the massacre in 1996 when State Rep. Don Ross and Sen. Maxine Horner created the Oklahoma commission, which provided a safe place for survivors to speak out and be recorded.바카라 게임 웹사이트You know this was trauma on steroids," Fisher said. With the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre approaching, Fisher said it's up to remaining survivors to continue telling their stories for historians to accurately document them and for schools to teach it.바카라 게임 웹사이트It's got to be incorporated into the curriculum," Fisher said. 바카라 게임 웹사이트The teachers have a lot of latitude on what they can use in the classroom. They can't claim ignorance anymore.바카라 게임 웹사이트So that history doesn't repeat itself.바카라 게임 웹사이트There's nothing in the history of this country comparable to that. Then or now," Fisher said.

It's a little more than two weeks from the 100th commemoration of the Tulsa Race Massacre 바카라 게임 웹사이트 one of the worst acts of racial violence in American history for decades, eliminated from school history books and museums in Oklahoma.

바카라 게임 웹사이트When we opened this exhibit in 2005, there were over 500 museums and historical societies in Oklahoma. Not one had a permanent exhibit of African American history. Not one," Bruce Fisher said.

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Fisher has been a curator for the Oklahoma History Center since 1999 and largely responsible for their African American exhibit created six years after he arrived.

바카라 게임 웹사이트They were in the process of designing this building,바카라 게임 웹사이트 Fisher said. 바카라 게임 웹사이트We had very little artifacts."

Fisher's first mission to make sure the story of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre was told, ensuring one of the most painful, darkest and significant stories in American history had a permanent place here.

바카라 게임 웹사이트Hundreds of Black people are murdered. Every house burned to the ground. Nothing, there was no precedent for this. Anywhere,바카라 게임 웹사이트 Fisher said.

온라인 바카라 게임paper headlines, such as the one from the "Black Dispatch," chronicled only a fraction of the untold story. Days of mass chaos and destruction in the Tulsa Greenwood District, hundreds were killed and Black Wall Street was burned down to ashes, destroying African Americans바카라 게임 웹사이트 dreams of hope and prosperity.

Fisher believes one reason this critical part of history was dormant for more than 70 years: fear.

바카라 게임 웹사이트You had people who didn't know whether it would happen again," Fisher said. 바카라 게임 웹사이트You had people in smaller communities if it happened there, it might happen to us. I think that's one of the reasons people didn't really talk about it."

Fisher said many even denied the massacre ever took place despite the lives lost and damage done.

바카라 게임 웹사이트There were pictures and videos, but nobody knew where they were and who had them," Fisher said.

Fisher said many of the documented articles he tried to collect were altered or deleted from the archives.

바카라 게임 웹사이트From 1893 until now, but when you go to the page of May 29... May 31, the riot, when you go to that page in the newspaper, you see it cut out. Every newspaper we could find had the article cut out," Fisher said.

Fisher said some survivors, including his own grandparents, moved to all-Black towns in Oklahoma or out of state altogether. The stories were passed down to their descendants.

Fisher said it wasn't until 75 years after the massacre in 1996 when State Rep. Don Ross and Sen. Maxine Horner created the Oklahoma commission, which provided a safe place for survivors to speak out and be recorded.

바카라 게임 웹사이트You know this was trauma on steroids," Fisher said.

With the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre approaching, Fisher said it's up to remaining survivors to continue telling their stories for historians to accurately document them and for schools to teach it.

바카라 게임 웹사이트It's got to be incorporated into the curriculum," Fisher said. 바카라 게임 웹사이트The teachers have a lot of latitude on what they can use in the classroom. They can't claim ignorance anymore.바카라 게임 웹사이트

So that history doesn't repeat itself.

바카라 게임 웹사이트There's nothing in the history of this country comparable to that. Then or now," Fisher said.