60 minutes overtime the story is about one of the worst race massacres in u.s history
and what was so shocking was i had not heard anything about it my name is nicole
young and i'm the producer for this week's story exhume the truth in 1921 a white mob
came into the black side of tulsa called greenwood and literally burned it to ash
killed upwards of 150 to 300 people 1200 homes burnt houses looted businesses destroyed people's
livelihoods completely obliterated before the massacre greenwood was a thriving black idea
of what could have been for so many people today and it was completely ripped away and taken away
the vernon ame church in tulsa is one of the only surviving original buildings and it's survived by
a piece of the church from 1921 they were able to build back around in the same place where it stood
we worked with reverend turner of the amy church i don't know how they did it but the following
sunday after the massacre they came in worship in our basement and that's the same basement
that we have today this is nicole young everybody she's the producer of this story
so we asked the congregation to tell us the oral histories that they heard from
their grandparents their great-grandparents my great-grandmother awakened my grandmother
by the words of eldoras get up the white folks are killing the colored folks my grandmother my
father's mother was pregnant with him on the day of the massacre they didn't talk about it in our
family what i do know is that my father grew up watching them rebuild from ashes and in that crowd
right in the front row was tiffany lyanna and reverend joe the family of terence crutcher
so not only did they live the horror of the death of their son and brother they're also
direct descendants of the massacre from 99 years ago okay my name is uh reverend joey crutcher
my grandmother would tell us about the race ride that's what they called it she said we had a real
bad race ride and her mother and her and i think she might have a couple of children at that time
they fled tulsa they fled and they stayed the way they were really scared about what was going on
in 2017 bill whitaker did a two-part segment on the shooting of terence crutcher there was
absolutely no justification whatsoever with all the backup for officer shelby to pull that trigger
no justification whatsoever if i wait to find out if he had a gun or not i could very well be dead
but as it turned out he did not have a gun no he did not and because of your action
a man is dead yes after bill whittaker's 2017 piece betty shelby was acquitted
you still have a city that has huge racial tension and you have so much history of that racial
tension and what that tension has caused the day after memorial day in 1921 a massacre happened
and 99 years later almost to the day george floyd was killed and people are protesting
in tulsa they're raising their arms and raising their voices if there was that much tension 99
years ago there's got to be tension now when you still have terrence crutcher's family coming to
the vernon amy church tulsa still has deep racial divide you still have a black side of tulsa you
still have a white side of tulsa there's still a railroad track dividing both sides of the town
and you have a highway that was built in the 60s right through greenwood the massacre was
always important which is why 60 minutes was there but now seeing the heartache of a nation
of a community of a people understanding the dark history of america in all its ugly forms
all of the hard conversations are more important now than they ever have been