This film is a retelling of the worst act of American terrorism and racism in American History. The Tulsa race massacre of 1921 took place on May 31 and June 1, 1921, when mobs of white residents attacked black residents and businesses of the Greenwood District in Tulsa, 19-year-old Delbert Ridley, a black shoe-shiner, is accused of assaulting Samantha Pacy, the 17-year-old white elevator operator of the nearby Dexter Building. He is taken into custody causing a gathering of angry local whites outside the courthouse where he is being held, along with the spread of rumors he had been lynched, alarmed the Greenwood population, Shots were fired and someone was killed, as news of this event spread throughout the city, mob violence exploded. White rioters rampaged through Greenwood that night and morning killing men, women, and children in addition to burning and looting stores and homes.