Interview Excerpt - "Were you aware of what started this riot? "

Interview Excerpt - "Were you aware of what started this riot? "

Video and text from interview with Joe Burns, O.G. Clark, Mrs. G.E. Jackson for the National Visionary Leadership Project discussing the events leading up to and early communication during the destruction of the Greenwood neighborhood during the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.

Burns, Joe (interviewee); Clark, O.G. (interviewee); Jackson, Mrs. G.E. (interviewee)

Excerpted from National Visionary Leadership Project interviews and conference collection (AFC 2004/007), Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Library of Congress, American Folklife Center

Cosby, Camille O. (Interviewer)

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