Encore: Tulsa Race Massacre | Bearing Witness | 5
Like many Americans, Anneliese Bruner didn’t hear about the Tulsa Race Massacre growing up. But what made it surprising in her case was that her grandmother and great-grandmother were survivors of the...
23 Jun 202134min
Encore: Tulsa Race Massacre | Rebirth | 4
On June 2, 1921, thousands of black Tulsans interned at the Tulsa Fairgrounds woke under armed guard. Many had no idea where their loved ones were or if they were still alive; they didn’t know whether...
16 Jun 202148min
Encore: Tulsa Race Massacre | The Invasion | 3
On the night of Tuesday, May 31, 1921, a violent white mob attacked the prosperous Black neighborhood of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma. As the night progressed, the disorganized mob transformed into so...
9 Jun 202140min
Encore: Tulsa Race Massacre | The Powder Keg | 2
As Black teenager Dick Rowland sat in a jail cell at the Tulsa courthouse, news of his arrest flew through the town. Egged on by rumors about his alleged rape of white teenager Sarah Page, a white mob...
2 Jun 202139min
Encore: Tulsa Race Massacre | The Promised Land | 1
In 1921, Tulsa, Oklahoma boasted one of the nation’s most prosperous African-American communities. Greenwood was home to 108 Black-owned businesses, two theaters, 15 physicians, two newspapers, and a ...
26 Mai 202148min
The Mystery of D.B. Cooper | The Man in Row 18 | 1
On November 24th, 1971, a man on a Boeing 727 bound for Seattle handed a flight attendant a note that read, “Miss, I have a bomb here.” No one knew the man’s real name. But soon, the press was calling...
19 Mai 202135min
Bleeding Kansas | The Man Who Sparked the Civil War | 5
John Brown has been called many things: fanatic, hero, terrorist, martyr, zealot. Some of his contemporaries, including Frederick Douglass, believed that were it not for his raid on Harpers Ferry, the...
12 Mai 202143min
Bleeding Kansas | His Soul Goes Marching On | 4
On October 17th, 1859, John Brown was barricaded inside the federal armory at Harpers Ferry with his hostages and his remaining followers. His attempt to lead an antislavery insurrection had failed. A...
5 Mai 202138min
