HIS 100 Module Five Activity Template - Roleshia Bickham

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HIS 100 Module Five Activity Template: Historical Interpretations Replace the bracketed text below with your responses. Identify the topic you chose to explore:  Racism, Inequality in Human Rights  Tulsa Race Massacre Describe how exploring your research question improved your understanding of the historical roots of your current event.  Exploring my research question gave me a better understanding of how racism is an ongoing factor today. Now with social media and different organizations such as Black Lives Matter, the issues stemming from racism and hate are now in the forefront and bringing awareness to events such as The Buffalo Mass Shooting. My research question is “To what effect did the Tulsa Race Massacre have on African Americans in the Greenwood District and how did race play a part in it?”. Racism was a contributing factor because the rioters consisted of Tulsa’s branch of the National Guard, the police, the special deputies (Police Commissioner Adkison randomly deputized at least 500 people to legitimize the retaliation by white people), and rioters whom all were white. George Floyd was killed by Derek Chauvin who is a white police officer by kneeling on George Floyd’s neck long enough to cut off the flow of his oxygen after he repeatedly stated he could not breath. The Buffalo Mass Shooting which left 10 black people dead at the hands of Payton Gendron who was a 19-year-old white male at a Buffalo Supermarket. The four black schoolgirls that were killed in the 16 th street Baptist church bombing in 1963 by the hands of Robert Chambliss, a well-known Ku-Klux-Klan member. These are just a few racially motivated events that have happened. Explain how biased perspectives influence what is known about both your historical and current events.  Bias perspectives influence the way we think about a situation or an event. By researching events in the past, we must rely on articles or content that could be one-sided which causes us not to get the facts and form our own opinion of what happened. It can also lead to misconceptions and false narratives about the events that happened. Most of the articles for the Tulsa Race Massacre were not firsthand accounts. They were articles from other historians and researchers that are trying to get answers and knowledge, closing gaps to unanswered questions. With the articles that I have, I could only find two that have statements from survivors or witnesses. It appears no one spoke on the aftermath and effect of the Tulsa Race Massacre that encountered it. The difference between 1921 and present, we have so many outlets that allow our voices to be heard but also allow us to voice opinions of events that may not always be accurate. Propose how the narrative about your historical event might change if it were told from a missing perspective.  The narrative, if told from a missing perspective, will give us a better understanding of the events that led to the massacre. What happened in the elevator that day? We need to know the viewpoints from those that started the event, the sheriff, the white rioters, the police commissioner, Dick Rowland, and Sarah Page. Why did government officials never charge anyone of the crimes? Getting the perspectives from both sides will give us a true understanding

of what took place and answer questions that we have. Also, we use the knowledge gained from events that happened in the past to understand, prepare for, and correct current and future events. In my opinion, if told from a missing perspective, it may over or underexaggerate what really happened that day. Propose how the narrative about your current event might change if it were told from a missing perspective.  The narrative will change because it will show that what was done was justified and with good reasoning. I chose several events as examples of racism and inequality and if each, the shooter, the bomber, and the police officer told their stories, they may have felt as though they were justified in committing the crimes that they have been convicted of. So many questions that are unanswered which causes people to form their own opinion of these events. What would cause a person to spew hate and hurt others? This is a question that we may never get an answer to.

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