Greenwood Massacre: Exhume the Truth | 60 Minutes Archive

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Published 2024-06-12
In 2020, Scott Pelley reported on efforts to investigate the violent Greenwood Massacre in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In 1921, a white mob burned a prosperous Black community to ash, leaving hundreds dead.

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All Comments (21)
  • @hhenryf.8
    Hatred expressed is the highest degree of ignorance.
  • @jenjenbee1340
    This is despicable. Incomprehensible. Heartbreaking.
  • @albertkane9133
    What happened is absolutely disgraceful something this country should be ashamed of
  • @NC-qc7wd
    With a heavy heart, I struggle to find the words to express the depth of despair and shame I feel in the face of such despicableness. It fills me with profound sadness and a sense of disgrace, knowing that hate could lead to my own undoing.
  • @wegder
    Elaine Arkansas as well.
  • @LisaKayOGQueen
    The internet…for all the things you weren’t told in school. We were a horrible society and continue to be. #RightIsRight
  • @LamarA-bq1zz
    Oklahoma owes the black people of this town! People that had nothing to do with anything lost property and businesses. On top of lives lost.
  • @marksykes3817
    CUT ✂️ THE CHECK 🎉. REPARATIONS NOW FOR BLACK AMERICANS REPARATIONS NOW FOR BLACK AMERICANS REPARATIONS NOW FOR BLACK AMERICANS REPARATIONS NOW FOR BLACK AMERICANS REPARATIONS NOW FOR BLACK AMERICANS REPARATIONS NOW FOR BLACK AMERICANS 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
  • @AllIsWellaus
    The City of Tulsa need to pay in some form of compensation. Programmes to help and actually give back in some way of physical form, even if it has been nearly 100 years ago. Their community, their quality of life is still being affected due to the City's inaction and even participation in the massacre.
  • @rongeorge574
    Our school never taught us about all the race riots
  • And the Oklahoma Supreme Court had an opportunity to right a wrong by giving the last survivors reparation and they said no. Shocker?
  • @jokodihaynes419
    We give our lives and soul for a country that didn't love us back and this is how we're repaid
  • What did any of THAT have to do with the boy in the elevator ?!?
  • @ML77619
    Tulsa is one of the most dangerous cities in the U.S.
  • @barbican124
    An interesting, touching story. I wish they'd share these story when it's not election time.