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In Search of History: The Night Tulsa Burned

  • Documentary
RELEASE

1999-02-19

BUGET

N/A

LENGTH

41 min

Description

Long-buried tale of the tragic hours that brought Greenwood to a fiery end, and the misunderstanding that started when a white elevator operator accused 19-year-old Greenwood resident Dick Rowland of assault prompted the violent race riot. Eyewitness accounts, archival film, and dramatizations recount the 1921 race riots in Tulsa.