Mildred Blocker News Today

Last week, we mourned the passing of Hughes Van Ellis, one of the last remaining survivors of the 1921 Tulsa, Oklahoma race massacre, which destroyed the once thriving Black community of Greenwood. The deadly attack occurred on June 1, 1921, when white rioters burned and looted the community – also known as Black Wall Street. Homes and business were destroyed, and historians believe that as many as 300 people died in the wake of the violence.