Historical Movie

Last night we viewed the doumentary movie, "Black Wall Street", about the terrible mob lynching and massacre in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1921 -- an event which seems to have been hidden. I want to know why this historical event is so little known. You can view the film here. To avoid being sickened, the first several minutes could be skipped.

The date was June 1, 1921, when "Black Wall Street," the name fittingly given to one of the most affluent all-Black communities in America, was bombed from the air and burned to the ground by mobs of envious whites. In a period spanning fewer than 12 hours, a once thriving 36-Black business district in northern Tulsa lay smoldering--a model community destroyed, and a major African -American economic movement resoundingly defused.

I was reminded of the Rosewood Massacre of 1923 which also is mostly lost history.