Interview with Joe Burns as a part of the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot (Massacre) Commission investigation

Interview with Joe Burns as a part of the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot (Massacre) Commission investigation

Video and text from recorded testimony from Joe Burns as a part of the Tulsa Race Riot (Massacre) Commission survivor inquiry. Burns was a child in 1921, but shares his memories of what he heard from adults around him and what he saw from his perspective. Mr. Burns testimony is minutes 46:30 - 53:28 of the larger recording labled "Tape 2."

Burns, Joe (Interviewee)

Excerpted from a 1999 recording made by the Survivor's Committee of the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot (Massacre) Commission, led by Eddie Faye Gates.

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Gates, Eddie Faye (Interviewer)

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1999.069.02