Featured Document: Remembering the Tulsa Race Massacre
WASHINGTON, May 3, 2021 â A century ago this month, the Greenwood District of Tulsa, OK, known as âBlack Wall Street,â was ablaze. An incident in an elevator between a Black teenage boy and a White teenage girl triggered two days of violence against the Black community. When the smoke lifted, the destruction was massive: White residents had mobbed the neighborhood. Scores of the cityâs Black residents were dead, and dozens of blocksâhomes, businesses, livelihoodsâw...
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