01:01:53 113.64 |
STUNTMEN-DAREDEVILS ON BUILDING TOPS. ESCAPE
ARTISTS. HOUDINI. CLIMBING SIDES OF BUILDINGS. STUNTS. FLAG POLE SITTING. HANGING UPSIDE DOWN FROM ROPE IN STRAIGHT JACKET. LOWERED. |
01:03:10 190 |
BAPTISM IN SWIMMING POOL. DISCIPLES OF AIMEE
SEMPLE MCPHERSON. RELIGIOUS CEREMONIES. RITUALS. |
01:04:01 241.64 |
CALIFORNIA. PROSPERITY. LUXURY ITEMS. FUR COATS.
FANCY CLOTHES. 1920s FASHION SHOW. WOMEN MODEL BATHING SUITS. |
01:04:51 291 |
HOUSTON TEXAS. BURNING DUMMY. RECESSION EFFIGY
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01:05:12 312.08 |
NARRATOR SPEAKS ON SCREEN
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01:06:12 372 |
WARREN G. HARDING PLAYS GOLF. CAMPAIGNING. LINE
OF PEOPLE. WHITE HOUSE. |
01:07:16 436 |
CU TAFT. PAN ANDREW MELLON AND OTHER CABINET
MEMBERS POSE. HOOVER, HUGHES, WALLACE, DOHERTY |
01:07:32 452 |
CROWDS LINE UP TO SHAKE HANDS WITH THE PRESIDENT
AND HIS WIFE. |
01:07:53 473 |
MONTAGE VETERANS IN WHEELCHAIRS.
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01:08:56 536 |
EUROPEAN RELIEF. FARMERS. SURPLUS OF FOOD.
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01:09:17 557 |
LOTS OF PEOPLE WAVE HANDKERCHIEFS.
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01:09:22 562 |
LONG TABLE OF MEN EATING ALFRESCO
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01:09:30 570 |
MEN CLEARING LAND. CHOPPING TREES.
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01:09:57 597 |
SOLDIERS. 1921 TULSA, OKLAHOMA RACE RIOTS. TULSA RACE RIOTS, TULSA MASSACRE. AFRICAN AMERICAN, BLACK SECTION OF THE CITY, GREENWOOD, IN RUINS. CALLED BLACK WALL STREET, LITTLE AFRICA. AFFLUENT, RICH BLACK PEOPLE LIVED THERE. KILLED ABOUT 300 BLACK PEOPLE. CROWDS OF BLACK PEOPLE. "POLICE PROTECTION" RIBBON.
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01:10:52 652 |
RACIAL DISCRIMINATION. INTOLERANCE. RACISM.
INFORMATION TABLE. KKK. THE KU KLUX KLAN. HOODED KLANSMEN, HIDDEN IDENTITIES. RITUALS. BURNING CROSS |
01:11:08 668 |
PUBLIC RALLIES. ARENA FILLED WITH PEOPLE.
|
01:11:27 687 |
KKK RITUAL, HOODED KLANSMEN MARCHING IN A
CIRCLE. CU GRAND DRAGON. SKULL-FACED LEADER. NEW MEMBER SWORN IN. ANTI-CATHOLIC MOVEMENT. DRIVE TO ELIMINATE CATHOLIC SCHOOLS. |
01:12:12 732 |
NARRATOR SPEAKS ON SCREEN
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01:12:32 752 |
DISMANTLING MACHINES OF WAR. BURNING GAS MASKS,
ETC. BONFIRE. |
01:13:03 783 |
STEAMSHIP. BATTLESHIP. MELTED DOWN. HUGE MAGNET
PICKS UP PIECES OF SCRAP METAL. MOLTEN METAL. |
01:13:38 818 |
FACTORY INTERIOR. RED HOT PIECES OF METAL.
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01:14:17 857 |
CHINESE OFFICIALS MEET WITH AMERICANS. SIGNING
TRADE TREATY. |
01:15:08 908 |
CROWDS OF PEOPLE IN BERLIN. PLACARDS IN GERMAN
READ "NEVER AGAIN IN WAR" |
01:15:22 922 |
ARMY OF OCCUPATION TROOPS MARCH OUT LEAD BY
GENERAL PERSHING'S ARMY. VISIT TOMB OF THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER. PAYING TRIBUTE TO WAR DEAD |
01:16:10 970 |
SOLDIERS MARCH WITH THEIR FOREIGN WIVES AND
CHILDREN. GET ON TRAIN. WAR BRIDES. |
01:16:43 1003 |
LITTLE KIDS PRETEEN BOYS WITH FAKE CAMERAS
ON TRIPODS. PRETEND TO MAKE NEWSREELS |
01:17:18 1038 |
FADS. GIRLS SHAPE BANGS TO MAKE BOYFRIENDS
INITIALS. |
01:17:41 1061 |
GIRLS DANCING IN BLOOMERS. SCANTILY CLAD FOR
1921. 1921 FASHIONS |
01:18:01 1081 |
GIRLS GET INTO AIRPLANE. ELOPING BY PLANE. WOMAN
IN FLIGHT GEAR. WEDDING KISS. FOX NEWS ON AIRPLANE. UNUSUAL WEDDINGS. |
01:19:12 1152 |
STUNT MAN STANDS ON FLYING AIRPLANE. STUNT FLYING
DAREDEVIL |
01:19:34 1174 |
CU COWBOY RIDES PLANE LIKE A HORSE COMPLETE WITH
SADDLE. HANGING FROM PLANE. STUNT DAREDEVIL |
01:20:27 1227.39 |
NARRATOR SPEAKS ON SCREEN
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01:21:28 1288 |
PROHIBITION ERA. RAID ON MOONSHINE OPERATION.
MAN GAGGED AND TIED TO TREE. BEATING UP MAN. BOOT LEGGER. |
01:22:07 1327 |
BEER MANUFACTURED ON ASSEMBLY LINE. BREWERY.
|
01:22:14 1334 |
WORKERS LOADING PILES OF WOODEN CRATES ON TOP
OF ONE ANOTHER, DELIVERING "MEDICINAL" WINE TO PHARMACY. JEWISH WINE DISTRIBUTED. |
01:22:47 1367 |
PILES OF WOODEN CRATES, MEN ADDING MORE. NEAR
BEER. |
01:22:55 1375 |
RUM RUNNER SHIPS. SHIPS ON THE OCEAN. FEDERAL
OFFICERS. MARINE GLIDERS. CAPSIZES, DUMPING STILLS INTO THE WATER FROM BOAT BY THE NAVY. CARRYING WOODEN BOXES. |
01:25:23 1523 |
BREAKING WOODEN BARRELS. BOOTLEGGERS. POURING
OUT LIQUOR. BEER FOAM EVERYWHERE. FLOWING DOWN BACK ALLEY. 1920s PROHIBITION |
01:26:07 1567 |
NARRATOR SPEAKS ON SCREEN
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01:27:00 1620.47 |
REEL ENDS, CREDITS ROLL
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01:27:52 1672.1 |
END
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Description: HIGHLIGHTS OF THE YEAR 1921 The Tulsa race massacre (known alternatively as the Tulsa race riot, the Greenwood Massacre, the Black Wall Street Massacre, the Tulsa pogrom, or the Tulsa Massacre) took place on May 31 and June 1, 1921, when mobs of white residents, many of them deputized and given weapons by city officials, attacked black residents and businesses of the Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It has been called "the single worst incident of racial violence in American history." The attack, carried out on the ground and from private aircraft, destroyed more than 35 square blocks of the district—at that time the wealthiest black community in the United States, known as "Black Wall Street." More than 800 people were admitted to hospitals, and as many as 6,000 black residents were interned in large facilities, many of them for several days. The Oklahoma Bureau of Vital Statistics officially recorded 36 dead. A 2001 state commission examination of events was able to confirm 39 dead, 26 black and 13 white, based on contemporary autopsy reports, death certificates and other records. The commission gave several estimates ranging from 75 to 300 dead.
Keywords: TULSA MASSACRE
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