{"id":11872,"date":"2019-06-05T08:05:36","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T13:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/?p=11872"},"modified":"2019-06-05T08:05:42","modified_gmt":"2019-06-05T13:05:42","slug":"searing-eyewitness-account-found-chronicling-the-destruction-of-black-wall-street-and-the-tulsa-massacre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/searing-eyewitness-account-found-chronicling-the-destruction-of-black-wall-street-and-the-tulsa-massacre\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Searing’ eyewitness account found chronicling the destruction of Black Wall Street and the Tulsa massacre"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Franklin’s typewritten Tulsa massacre account<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The grandson of a survivor of the Tulsa massacre is a senior program manager at the National Museum of African American History and Culture<\/a>, where now resides the manuscript detailing the Tulsa, Oklahoma massacre and its impact on Black Wall Street residents. It is a first person account written by attorney Buck Colbert Franklin<\/a>\u00a0(1879-1960), who survived the massacre although his law practice was burned to the ground.\u201cI could see planes circling in mid-air. They grew in number and hummed, darted and dipped low. I could hear something like hail falling upon the top of my office building. Down East Archer, I saw the old Mid-Way hotel on fire, burning from its top, and then another and another and another building began to burn from their top,\u201d he wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Franklin writes that he left his law office, locked the door, and descended to the foot of the steps … \u201cThe side-walks were literally covered with burning turpentine balls. I knew all too well where they came from, and I knew all too well why every burning building first caught from the top,\u201d he continues. \u201cI paused and waited for an opportune time to escape. \u2018Where oh where is our splendid fire department with its half dozen stations?\u2019 I asked myself. \u2018Is the city in conspiracy with the mob?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The grandson of a survivor of the Tulsa massacre is a senior program manager at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, where now resides the manuscript detailing the Tulsa, Oklahoma massacre and its impact on Black Wall Street residents. It is a first person account written by attorney Buck Colbert Franklin\u00a0(1879-1960), who … <\/p>\n

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