Seeking song re: 1921 Tulsa massacre

Subject: Seeking song re: Tulsa massacre
From: GUEST,David Heitler-Klevans
Date: 22 Sep 20 - 11:44 AM

Anyone know songs about the Tulsa massacre. I do know Sweet Honey in the Rock's Oh, Sankofa. Any others?

Thanks,
David Heitler-Klevans
Music for the New Revolution

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Oh, Sankofa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWDnpLzDtVI

Subject: RE: Seeking song re: 1921 Tulsa massacre
From: Joe Offer
Date: 22 Sep 20 - 12:41 PM

For the record, Wikipedia says the Tulsa Race 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.[19] A 2001 state commission examination of events was able to confirm 36 dead, 26 black and 10 white, based on contemporary autopsy reports, death certificates and other records. The commission gave overall estimates from 75–100 to 150–300 dead.

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A DESCRIPTIVE POEM of THE TULSA RACE RIOT AND MASSACRE

https://woodyguthriecenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Tulsa-Race-Riot-Part-1.pdf

https://woodyguthriecenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Tulsa-Race-Riot-Part-2.pdfz

Black Wall Street and the Blues

Song of Greenwood - musical drama

Subject: RE: Seeking song re: 1921 Tulsa massacre
From: Joe Offer
Date: 22 Sep 20 - 02:03 PM

"Tulsa 1921" song about race riot history by 3 Penny Acre, Bryan Hembree original lyrics re: the riots:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KH_NrwpUn90

Subject: RE: Seeking song re: 1921 Tulsa massacre
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 22 Sep 20 - 05:10 PM

Thanks, Joe! This was a questions pushed over here from the Facebook page. The information is also probably sprinkled all through Mudcat, if David starts searching on some of the terms discussed in your links. Especially with discussions about Guthrie and the Guthrie Center over the years.