RSVP FOR FREE VEGAN DINNER, VIEWING & DISCUSSION OF THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY 1921 RACE MASSACRE - BLACK WALL STREET - TONITE 7 PM CALL 718-783-3465 SUN. MAY 30TH 7 PM 138 SAINT JAMES PLACE BKLYN.
 

RSVP FOR VEGAN POTLUCK VIEWING & DISCUSSION OF THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY 1921 RACE MASSACRE 

- BLACK WALL STREET - TONITE 7 PM CALL 718-783-3465 SUN. MAY 30TH 7 PM 138 SAINT JAMES PLACE BKLYN.

5 NEW DOCUMENTARIES ON THE END OF BLACK WALL STREET 100 HUNDRED YEARS AGO & 2 FICTIONAL ONES 

1. 'Tulsa Race Massacre: 100 Years Later' 

When it's premiering: 7 p.m. May 31, with an encore at 10 p.m.  Where it's airing: OETA. 

2. 'Dreamland: The Burning of Black Wall Street' 

When it's premiering: 8 p.m. May 31.  Where it's airing: CNN.

3. Tulsa: The Fire and the Forgotten May 31 9 p.m. on PBS

4. Tulsa 1921: AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY 10 p.m. CBS  

5. 'Rise Again: Tulsa and the Red Summer' 

When it's premiering: 8 p.m. June 18.  Where it's airing: National Geographic.  

Tulsa Race Massacre in historical fiction 

1. 'Watchmen'  Where to see it: Streaming on HBO Max.  

2. 'Lovecraft Country'  Where to see it: Streaming on HBO Max.  

_______________________________________________________________________________________________

1921 May 31 Tulsa Race Massacre begins 

Beginning on the night of May 31, 1921, thousands of white citizens in Tulsa, Oklahoma descended on the city’s predominantly Black Greenwood District, burning homes and businesses to the ground and killing hundreds of people. Long mischaracterized as a race riot, rather than mass murder, the Tulsa Race Massacre stands as one of the worst incidents of racial violence in the nation’s history. 

In the years following World War I, segregation was the law of the land, and the Ku Klux Klan was gaining ground—not only in the Jim Crow South, but across the United States. Amid that charged environment, Tulsa’s African American community was nationally recognized for its affluence. The Greenwood District, known as “Black Wall Street,” boasted more than 300 Black-owned businesses, including two movie theaters, doctors’ offices and pharmacies. 

On May 30, 1921, a young Black man named Dick Rowland entered an elevator in an office building in downtown Tulsa. At some point, Rowland was alone in the elevator with its white operator, Sarah Page. It’s unclear what happened next (one common version is that Rowland stepped on Page’s foot) but Page screamed, and Rowland fled the scene. The next day, the police arrested him. 

Rumors about the incident spread quickly through Tulsa’s white community, some members of which undoubtedly resented the prosperity of the Greenwood District. After a story published in the Tulsa Tribune on the afternoon of May 31 claimed that Rowland had attempted to rape Page, an angry white mob gathered in front of the courthouse, demanding that Rowland be handed over. 

Seeking to prevent a lynching, a group of some 75 Black men arrived on the scene that night, some of them World War I veterans who were carrying weapons. After a white man tried to disarm a Black veteran and the gun went off, chaos broke out. 

Over the next 24 hours, thousands of white rioters poured into the Greenwood District, shooting unarmed Black citizens in the streets and burning an area of some 35 city blocks, including more than 1,200 Black-owned houses, numerous businesses, a school, a hospital and a dozen churches. Historians believe as many as 300 people were killed in the rampage, though official counts at the time were much lower. 

By the time Governor James Robertson declared martial law, and National Guard troops arrived in Tulsa by noon on June 1, the Greenwood District lay in ruins. Survivors of the massacre worked to rebuild the neighborhood, but segregation remained in force in Tulsa (and the nation) and racial tensions only grew, even as the massacre and its lingering scars were left largely unacknowledged by the white community for decades to come. 

In 1997, the Oklahoma state legislature created the Oklahoma Commission to Study the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 (later renamed the Tulsa Race Massacre Commission), which studied the massacre and recommended that reparations be paid to the remaining Black survivors. City officials continue to investigate the events of May 31-June 1, 1921, and to search for unmarked graves used to bury the massacre’s many victims.

HOW TO CREATE OPTIMAL HAPPINESS, HEALTH & WEALTH! 

WORLD'S FIRST & ONLY BLACK VEGAN OWNED BED & BREAKFAST, YOGA & EXERCISE STUDIO, EVENT SPACE, DAY SPA, HOLISTIC HEALTH CENTER, RAW VEGAN CULINARY SCHOOL & CATERING SERVICE UNDER ONE ROOF  

RSVP 718-783-3465 DR. NATURAL JOIN WWW.TEMPLEOFILLUMINATION.NING.COM ;

1.) JOBS & ROOMS AVAILABLE FOR VEGAN WOMEN 

2.) EXTENSIVE CALENDAR OF EVENTS 

3.) FREE STUFF  

FREE MEMBERSHIP AT BLINK GYM, HEALTH CONSULTATIONS & INFORMATION, COLON CLEANSING HERBS, ALKALINE WATER, VEGAN FOOD, WOMEN'S CLOTHES, SHOES & SNEAKERS, FURNITURE, HOUSEWARES, ELECTRONICS, ETC.  

4.) SERVICES 

RAW VEGAN PREPARATION DEMONSTRATIONS, AROMATHERAPY SPA TREATMENT, MASSAGE THERAPY, MOTIVATIONAL LIFE COACHING, SPIRITUAL ENLIGHTENMENT STUDIES, ASSISTANCE WITH FINDING YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSES[S], HOW TO START AND GROW YOUR OWN DESIRED BUSINESS[ES], SOUND HEALING SESSIONS, ETC.  

5.) PRODUCTS 

COLONIC IRRIGATIONS, COLON CLEANSING & IMMUNE BUILDING HERBAL FORMULAS, SUPER FOOD NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENTS, MALE & FEMALE HERBAL FORMULAS, EROTIC MASSAGE OIL, HAIR GROWTH FORMULAS, HEALTH BOOKS, DVDS, CDS, HEALTH RELATED CHARTS & POSTERS, ALL-NATURAL SKIN & HAIR CARE PRODUCTS, BEAUTY IN A JAR FACE & BODY CLAY MASK, SAGE FOR SMUDGING PURPOSES, FRUIT & GREEN SMOOTHIES, ENERGY SOUPS, SALADS & SALAD DRESSINGS, RAW VEGAN DESSERTS, LOVE POTIONS, ORGANIC ESSENTIAL OIL BLENDS FOR EVERY PURPOSE, ETC.

TEMPLE OF ILLUMINATION 138 SAINT JAMES PLACE BKLYN,NY 11238 718-783-3465 WWW.TEMPLEOFILLUMINATION.NING.COM ;

ULTIMATE CALENDAR OF EVENTS RSVP DR. NATURAL 718-783-3465  

JOIN WWW.TEMPLEOFILLUMINATION.NING.COM   ;

SPRING CLEANSE & DETOX PROGRAM BEGINS NOW.  

LEARN HOW TO BUILD YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM NATURALLY.    

JOBS, ROOMS, FREE CLOTHES, SHOES, SNEAKERS, VEGAN FOOD, RAW VEGAN PREPARATION DEMONSTRATIONS & BLINK GYM MEMBERSHIP FOR VEGAN WOMEN                                                                 

  EVERY SUNDAY 9 AM - 10 AM PROSPECT PARK GROUP RUN NY FLYERS RUNNING GROUP   

    EVERY SUNDAY 11 AM - 6 PM A TASTE OF AFRICA SQUARE - AN OUTDOOR EVENT ON TOMPKINS BETWEEN PUTNAM & MADISON AVE BKLYN  

EVERY SUN. 12 PM - 10 PM CARIBBEAN BOTTOMLESS BRUNCH & DAY PARTY 290 MESEROLE ST BKLYN  

EVERY THURDAY 2 PM - 9 PM OUTDOOR DAY PARTY VON KING PARK BKLYN  

EVERY THURSDAY 4 PM - 11 PM JIMMY'S 38 NYC 156 W 38TH ST NYC  

EVERY THURSDAY 5 PM - 1 AM AFROHOUSE MUSIC 167 GRAHAM AVE BKLYN  

E-mail me when people leave their comments –

You need to be a member of templeofillumination3 to add comments!

Join templeofillumination3