For All Disposed in Mass Graves of Non- Histories

Theorist Clyde Woods calls this phenomenon of socially evicted Black communities of the South to build power as well as ensure their political and social survival as Blues Epistemology. This frame work that pulls from the namesake of the radical music tradition, aptly describes the inexorable irrepressible will, indestructibility, and malleability of Black communities in the face of white supremacy. Blacks of the Greenwood community took a collective stand of resistance to the mob of white Tulsans that gathered outside of the county courthouse. They would protect Rowland as if their lives depended on it, because indeed their lives did depend upon it.