So here we are Wednesday june 1st around 11 a.m. The violence and destruction had finally started to subside. National guardsmen were in place and martial law was declared by midday. Greenwood had been emptied of all but a handful of its residents, Black Tolson's, trying to escape. Their burning community were marched back into the city to be detained. We left our home, we went north, so we kept going off and we're yeah, true. The militia came. They came, they brought us back trucks through the afternoon and into the next day. National Guard patrols would pick up Greenwood residents and take them to detainment camps. They tell us go through line, we got what we want to eat and they hated us down and on In one of the livestock stars and everywhere you went, there were scenes like this, 4000 black detainees subject to harassment and humiliation and to add insult to injury. Some of them were even robbed of the valuables. They were able to stuff into their pockets before they had to leave their homes, a few found refuge in the homes of white employers, acquaintances and even the churches, including the historic VErnon Chapel Ame Church, the reverend of the church, showing us the basement, one of these structures still standing from the massacre, people came to these windows to hide out. Many detainees remained at the detainment camp for weeks. They were held until a white person could vouch for them, at which point they were given a card to wear on their clothes. This bad said police protection and when she put this badge on it and I walked onto the gate and then they just open the gate and let me out. Those who remained at the detainment camps were required to pay for their meals either out of pocket or by doing various tasks including cleaning up the debris in greenwood, they just saw bodies decaying in the streets. They just saw blood flowing down Greenwood, One of the most prominent Tolson's killed in the massacre was Dr A. C. Jackson. The 40 year old surgeon had a home that sits right where I stand right now, here in the middle of the Greenwood district. His neighbor was a prominent judge at the time. He saw the entire thing. He says. Dr Jackson had his hands up in the air ready to surrender when he was shot by the white mob. That neighbor who was also white said that it was quote cold blooded murder. Dr Jackson's killers were never found. Meanwhile, the story about what happened in Tulsa would make national headlines. Many articles pointing to black Tolson's as the cause. While others blame poor whites and even mexicans on june 25th, just two weeks after the massacre, a grand jury would ultimately blame everything on black people and city officials, Only one man would be charged in the riot, that man black as for the two teens that sparked the tragedy, they left Tulsa and never looked back. In the end, only about 30 death certificates were issued. But the more we learn about this tragedy, the more we realize that thousands were injured and hundreds were killed in the midst of all of this Greenwood district residents who once had a stable home were forced to live in tent cities. And the reports from 1921 show just a few 100 homes were destroyed. The truth of it is much worse. You know, they speak about anywhere from 3 to 5000 being displaced in the days that the massacre was, this was not a single day of the, you know, the houses were systematically looted than burnt to the ground, trying to put tragedy behind them. Black Tolson's wanted to bring Greenwood back to its former glory, but that would be a difficult task. This was an area that with intent on rebuilding, we couldn't put up the type of buildings that we wanted to start with because we have to just put a little shack building. But from that on, it was just a miracle. Just tell you the truth that happened because there's nobody in the world, I don't think I could have me to come back like the black folks of talks because they had nothing in the world To help them. Greenwood residents were able to patch up some of the wounds they suffered in 1921. But by the 1950s and 1960s Greenwood started to show the negative effects of desegregation. You wouldn't think so, but desegregation became a sore spot for black businesses. Greenwood district residents started shopping downtown at white businesses when the rights found out that the green wood dollar was just as green as the green as a dollar. Across the track. They started a campaign if since they had to open up, they started a campaign to attract the black dollars, so to speak and in the late seventies, urban renewal would destroy what was left. Had it not been for the massacre? Had it not been for urban renewal? Uh, coming in and leveling all the homes of business, what would green would look like today? And my response was like Atlanta. It would have been and it would be much bigger. The scars of the massacre would continue. For Tulsa, The sadness, the shame, the truth, it would be hidden for decades. It's not in the history books and a lot of things that I heard made me angry. How can that, how can that be? I thought they were making this stuff up, this part of history, not being taught. In fact, the conspiracy of silence was so prominent. Many here in Oklahoma didn't know what happened in their own state on these grounds.