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On this day in history: The wealthiest black community in the US was destroyed
Posted on 6/1/14 at 11:34 am
Posted on 6/1/14 at 11:34 am
"The Black Wall Street" over 100 businesses and almost 1300 homes were destroyed in one of the largest domestic terrorist attacks in the US. 300 black people were killed and the entire area was torched to the ground.
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Posted on 6/1/14 at 11:35 am to RDRGeaux09
umm.. ok
Posted on 6/1/14 at 11:35 am to RDRGeaux09
got heem
Posted on 6/1/14 at 11:36 am to RDRGeaux09
Went too hard
Posted on 6/1/14 at 11:37 am to GEAUXmedic
Jus an interesting bit of history I'd thought I'd share
Posted on 6/1/14 at 11:38 am to RDRGeaux09
o geeeez
Posted on 6/1/14 at 11:38 am to RDRGeaux09
That gives a whole new meaning to "the man holding me down."
Posted on 6/1/14 at 11:38 am to RDRGeaux09
I'm really glad I didn't grow up during that time.
Posted on 6/1/14 at 11:41 am to RDRGeaux09
Interesting. Thanks for the post.
Posted on 6/1/14 at 11:41 am to StraightCashHomey21
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o geeeez
Posted on 6/1/14 at 11:44 am to upgrayedd
Yea I know. I'd never heard about this before. I ran across a few articles on twitter and looked it up. I wonder what'd it be like had that community been allowed to thrive? What kind of generational wealth would been accumulated and passed on?
Posted on 6/1/14 at 11:45 am to RDRGeaux09
I do admit that there is alot of history with that kind of stuff we don't know about.
Posted on 6/1/14 at 11:50 am to RDRGeaux09
Interesting find, I hadn't heard of it.
Posted on 6/1/14 at 11:53 am to RDRGeaux09
Heard about this sometime back but never looked into it. Very interesting.
Posted on 6/1/14 at 12:04 pm to RDRGeaux09
Interesting read
Posted on 6/1/14 at 12:08 pm to RDRGeaux09
Posted on 6/1/14 at 12:32 pm to RDRGeaux09
yeah, it was pretty ruthless.
It basically destroyed that community.
also this
It basically destroyed that community.
also this
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Numerous witness accounts described airplanes carrying white assailants, who fired rifles and dropped firebombs on buildings, homes, and fleeing families. The planes, six biplane two-seater trainers left over from World War I, were dispatched from the nearby Curtiss-Southwest Field (now defunct) outside Tulsa.[20] White law enforcement officials later stated the planes were to provide reconnaissance and protect whites against a "Negro uprising".[20] Eyewitness accounts and testimony from the survivors maintained that on the morning of June 1, the planes dropped incendiary bombs and fired rifles at black residents on the ground.[20]
This post was edited on 6/1/14 at 12:35 pm
Posted on 6/1/14 at 1:04 pm to Duckie
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White law enforcement officials later stated the planes were to provide reconnaissance and protect whites against a "Negro uprising
So is this why we have so many drones these days?
Posted on 6/1/14 at 1:32 pm to RDRGeaux09
It's so hard for me to believe just how ruthless and hateful our country was back then. I mean, it really wasn't that long ago that we didn't even share water fountains with blacks or allow them to eat in the same restaurants as us. It's crazy to think about and truly a black eye on our nations history.
Posted on 6/1/14 at 1:44 pm to supadave3
I learned about this event a few years ago. The whole thing, from start to finish was unbelievable. And, it was like 60 years after the Civil War.
And yes. There is A LOT of history like that that we do not know anything about. The way that black people were treated in America pre-1970 was overall rather barbaric.
Read Slavery By Another Name by Douglas Blackmon. Basically says that the steel industry in and around Birmingham was built by what was essentially slave labor between 1880-1940. Lots of injustice there.
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And yes. There is A LOT of history like that that we do not know anything about. The way that black people were treated in America pre-1970 was overall rather barbaric.
Read Slavery By Another Name by Douglas Blackmon. Basically says that the steel industry in and around Birmingham was built by what was essentially slave labor between 1880-1940. Lots of injustice there.
LINK
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