Healing history- the power of trustbuilding
The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre is identified as one of the bloodiest and least discussed massacres in United States history. Tulsa was the first US city attacked by air when the white majority turned on the black minority. In a bold move to embrace a shared, painful history and promote honest dialogue, a delegation consisting of 10 Tulsans told their different perspectives and understanding of the city's past. Included in the delegation was a past elected city official, librarian, educator and historians. Descendants of the massacre referenced today's value with relation to the economic loss their families suffered. Educator, Dr. Anthony Marshall, drew the striking diagram of what the city would look like today had the victimized half of the community thrived financially
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Anthony Marshall, discussed obstacles faced when attempting to teach students of the painful event in the city’s past, without use of textbooks as a reference. Dr. Marshall challenged the lack of curriculum and worked to change the curriculum to include discussing the horrific massacre.
Recent racial upheaval in US cities Charlotte, Ferguson and Baltimore create a profound sense of urgency to springboard honest and open dialogue within divided communities. Dr. Marshall spoke, “Many young people in today’s generation can relate to ‘hands up don’t shoot’ I show students it is not a new concept. In 1921, individuals marched down the streets with their hands up after their community was destroyed. As educators, we have to make history and the lessons learned relevant to today”.
Many in the delegation had not met prior to their arrival in Caux although they have lived miles apart for decades. However, upon meeting they have embraced the Caux spirit of elbow diplomacy and are now working together in their community to widen the reach and depth of understanding race in hopes of healing their shared history.
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If I were to ask you what you knew about W.E.B. Du Bois and the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot, what would your answer be? You might state the obvious and say that there was a race war in Atlanta that affected many people including Du Bois but do you know the depth of the matter? The 1900’s was a powerful and intriguing time period in history that included events from the assassination of William McKinley to the infamous World Wars. While events such as these took the nation by storm there were other affairs that were rattling the people of America, specifically those in the South, that became known as the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot. The Atlanta Race riot began on September 22 and ended on September 24, 1906. American history students should read this
Nikole Hannah-Jones, the author of the article “School Segregation, the Continuing Tragedy of Ferguson,” (2014) writes about how the Normandy school district in which Ferguson students attend, ranked at the very bottom of all Missouri schools for performance. As relayed by Hannah-Jones (2014), the Normandy school district is “among the poorest and most segregated in Missouri” (p. 2). The August 2014 shooting death of a young African-American, Michael Brown, by a white police officer, spurred riots not only in St. Louis, but also in other cities nationwide. Black and white children in the St. Louis region remain educationally divided, and the state Board of Education knows what needs to change in order for black children to gain a better
What has been described here has kept African Americans proud of where they came from and how they can overcome any problem that they are faced with. The phrase “Strength in numbers” comes to mind when reading what they had to endure especially the families of the four little girls that died in the devastating bombing of the 16th street church. They will always be remembered and missed dearly.
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The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 was of the most devastating riots in the history of the United States. Was the reaction of an envious white mob to the extremely wealthiest “Black Wall Street”. How was it that one scream that was heard by almost no one was able to create an angry mob of thousands of people? The setting of the Tulsa race Riot history, impact on law enforcement and the nation made a huge impact on us today.
Black men have been taught from a young age to be wary of how they speak to the police (Hughes, 2014). Grandparents of millennials have told their grandchildren firsthand stories of segregation. Flags of the Confederate Army still fly high in some of the South’s state capitals. It didn’t take the highly publicized deaths of Trayvon Martin or Jordan Davis for Southerners to realize this country’s systematic injustices, as the South has been well aware of the countries racial injustices since the days of slavery.
I think that the Indian version of the Massacre at Sand Creek was most persuasive to me. In 1851, the tribes went to Fort Laramie to make a Treaty with the United States government along with all the plains tribes. The Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes were recognized as the occupiers of most of eastern Colorado. This land was claimed by these tribes, and in return they would let the white people access the trails through their land. That treaty only lasted 10 years. In 1861 a new treaty was formed called the treaty of Fort Wise, which put them on a smaller piece of land on the Arkansas River in southeastern Colorado. This land was a big sand field with no food, so when they went out to hunt and get food a lot of the conflict was because they went out of there
The battle of the Alamo is a symbol of patriotic sacrifice and bravery when faced with unbeatable odds. The battle of the Alamo made the Alamo the symbol of Texan independence.
In “Lift Off” (2016), Donovan Livingston argues that education symbolizes the injustices and oppressions that have plagued America since its founding, but is also the key to success. Livingston displays this ideal by comparing slaves trying to learn (“any attempt...punishable by death”) to his own experiences in the classroom (being labeled as “disruptive, talkative, and a distraction”), by contrasting the fact that his past makes him unable to sit still and stand aside, to the fact that when faced with students similar to Livingston, educators often raise their voices in an attempt to silence them, and by alluding to a number of historical events that were fueled by education (such as Harriet Tubman’s quest for freedom, and the American Dream).
“There is no negro problem; there is no southern problem; there is only an American problem”(Lyndon B. Johnson). The civil rights movement occurred from 1954 to 1968. America was divided into group simple because of someone’s skin color. The nation was separated into a white and black community. Although there were heartbreaking times in this movement, moments of joy were shared after everyone was finally equal citizens. The March to Selma, Alabama was one of the most historically significant events in the struggle for civil rights. Through perseverance and patience, our world was changed dramatically by Sheyann Webb, Jonathan Daniels, and Dr Martin Luther King, Jr.
In the book, A Misplaced Massacre Struggling Over the Memory of Sand Creek by Dr. Ari Kelman is trying to set the record straight about what really happened and why we needed to make the land of the historic massacre to be transformed as an historic land.
The Memphis Race Riot of 1866 was one of the most horrific and terrifying events that Memphis, Tennessee has ever seen in the city’s history. You may be wondering what could have caused something so tragic and terrible to happen to such a small town, but there is only one answer; hatred. Hatred is one of the many things that fueled the fire to start the biggest race riot to ever take place in Memphis, Tennessee. Hatred is the one thing that all of those people had to feel to be so cruel to another human being without a care in the world. But that hatred had to start from somewhere and that somewhere was on a street on May 1, 1866.
On July 18, 1984 one of America’s most horrific and shocking killings took place in San Ysidro, California. A man originally from Ohio committed the fourth-deadliest shooting massacre by a single perpetrator in United States history, killing twenty-one and wounding nineteen others. The “McDonald’s Massacre”, as it came to be called, was a tragic event in a San Ysidro McDonalds.
The Tulsa race riot changed the course of American history by actively expressing African American views on white supremacy. Before the events of the Tulsa race riot African Americans saw the white community taking justice into their own hands. Black citizens of Tulsa stood up against this sort of white mob. This escaladed into the Tulsa race riot. The Tulsa race riot and its effects weighed heavily upon the African Americans of this era.
In the past, this racism presented itself boldly and loudly in people protesting the integration of schools, the burning of crosses on black families’ front yards, and the murder of anyone who tried to break the status quo. Today, racism manifests itself in much more insidious ways; a rude look at a stranger on the street, an off-color joke, or a careless statement. It is easy for people to say that these things don’t matter, that political correctness has run amok, but that simply isn’t true. Every time a black person, or any person of color, for that matter, is forced to sit through one of these things, they learn the worst lesson of all, the lesson that society aggressively pounds into the heads of all minorities: that they are worthless. This final lesson is one that I bought into for many years, and that many people sadly still buy into today. But today, at twenty years old, I realize that it is a lie; all of the lessons that we are forced to learn are lies. This positive message is much harder for me to accept, but I realize it again and again every single day when I see young black people letting go of the chains that tied them down for so long; I realize it when I see them marching through the streets and demanding their