Race Riots: Rosewood and Black Wall Street

The Destruction of Black Wall Street
1.) Greenwood community had such luxuries as, indoor plumbing and a school system that superiorly educated Black children, that created envy between its neighbors.
2.) I think Greenwood gained the nickname "Little Africa", because the town was transformed into a little community amongst all African American's there were they ran their own businesses, created proficient school systems and build churches.
3.) I think Greenwood was labeled "Black Wall Street" because of how the African American community there created so many entrepreneurial opportunities for themselves. They created business centers that included banks, hotels, cafes, clothiers, movie theaters, and contemporary homes.
4.) The National Guard arrested and detained 6,000 black Tulsans during the span of the riots, so their response to the massacre just added fuel to the fire, they weren't on the blacks Tulsans side.
Tulsa Race Riot Today Show
1.)  It was described as a community exploding with opportunity; they had just about every business imaginative own by blacks, from plumbing to shoe shinning to grocery stores.
2.) Dick Rolland was the name of the young man that "assaulted" the white woman. This lynching  separates itself from any other lynching we have learned about in this class thust far, because it was the start of a huge race riot/ massacre.
3.) The interviewers describe the day of the massacre as a "nightmere" and how they were in fear of losing their lives, because the lynch mobs were setting their houses on fire, and just walking up to blacks and shooting them.
The Rosewood Massacre 
1.) I think it took so many years to uncover Rosewood, because like Ms. Minnie Lee, a lot of the victims did not like to speak on the chain of events that took place. At the end of the video Ms. Minnie Lee, admits that she did not want her family to know that she was in the woods fearing for her life, and that she also didn't want them to know what a terrible thing the white people did to her family and many others.
2.) Ms. Minnie Lee recalls the Rosewood Massacre as a haunted memory. She speaks on how as a young girl the whites burned down her grandmothers house and all their belongs, and how they made her grandfather, with one arm, dig his own grave and then shot him in the back as he stood right in front of it, so he could fall in it.
3.)  A man attacking Fanny Taylor in her home is what caused the Massacre.
4.) According to Mr. Fred KIrkland about 700 whites joined the mob. To those running out to the woods, they were shot dead.
5.) John Wright owned a general store and his home was one of a few that survived the fires from the massacre. Wright is remembered as a hero, because he opened up his home to women and children who were running from the mob, and sent out a message to the train, telling them " the town was on fire, send a train." This train helped many blacks escape.
6.) I think Ms. Minnie Lee, like many other victims of racism back then, never spoke on the massacre to her family, because it is something that hurts her deeply and she may be ashamed of that she ever had to whiteness such.