Discussion on Class as a Protection Against Racial Violence

We were talking about the Tulsa, Ok race riots in 1921 earlier today and how class is not a protection against racial violence and power inequalities. These two documentaries are very powerful and feature interviews with survivors of the race riots and the attacks on "Black Wall street."

Here is a clip on the East St. Louis, Race riots in the same period, where Whites systematically killed and murdered African Americans in order to "purify" their town--and how the Black community resisted.