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WASHINGTON, May 3, 2021 — A century ago this month, the Greenwood District of Tulsa, OK, known as “Black Wall Street,” 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 city’s Black residents were dead, and dozens of blocks—homes, businesses, livelihoods—w...