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.
Archaeologists and historians are beginning the dig to find victims of the 1921 “race massacre” in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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 toIt's a proposal that has received a chilly reception given Cosby's controversial
"First and foremost, Bill and Camille Cosby are not part of this project -- she's just lending her work," Wyatt said, acknowledging that his association with the couple as Bill Cosby's public relations crisis manager through two felony sexual assault trials could be impacting the response the project has received in Hollywood.
Rowland was taken into custody, and rumors spread through town that he would be lynched. A group of Black residents of Greenwood – some of them World War I veterans, according to historians – armed themselves and approached the courthouse to protect Rowland from the growing mob of white Oklahomans.Among the Black war vets was O.B. Mann, who owned a grocery store in Greenwood before enlisting in the U.S.
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