After being hidden away for nearly a century in the shadows of America's collective memory, the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 has sharpened into a powerful cultural focal point, with multiple film projects underway -- all vying for a June 2021 release to mark the centennial anniversary of one of the
Cineflix is producing a scripted miniseries called"Black Wall Street," directed by Dream Hampton of the"Surviving R. Kelly" documentary. NBA superstar Russell Westbrook has partnered with director Stanley Nelson for a documentary series,"Terror in Tulsa: The Rise and Fall of Black Wall Street."
San Antonio College political science professor Frederick Williams, author of"Fires of Greenwood: A Novel Based on the Tulsa Riot of 1921," wants to produce a big-budget Hollywood film that immortalizes the key figures and the heroic efforts of many in Tulsa's Greenwood neighborhood to defend the community they'd built for decades against an overwhelming mob of armed white Oklahomans.
Wyatt told ABC News that he has not yet garnered any interest in the project from any of the big Hollywood studios, or from any of the other projects already underway. In 1905, oil was discovered in Tulsa, and within 15 years, it had become one of the most prosperous oil boom towns in the nation, home to hundreds of petroleum companies, numerous newspapers and a burgeoning community of Black Americans intent on finally being allowed to participate in the American Dream.
Mann later retreated with fellow soldiers to take up strategic positions to defend Greenwood from an overwhelming mob of armed white residents who marched in and firebombed businesses and homes. Many Black residents were shot as they fled the burning buildings, according to historians and multiple newspaper accounts from the weeks and months that followed.
Another historic figure brought vividly to life in Williams' novel is J.B. Stradford, one of the founding fathers of"Black Wall Street" -- an entrepreneur who graduated from Indiana University with a law degree and moved to Tulsa, acquiring vacant land in the Greenwood neighborhood that he later sold to a wave of Black Americans fleeing the Jim Crow laws that kept them impoverished in the South.
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