Marking a Massacre
A filmmaker unearths the sorrow of Tulsa’s “Black Wall Street,” site of the country’s single worst incident of racial violence.
Candice Frederick
In 2019, HBO s
Watchmen reignited interest in the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, when mobs of white Oklahoma residents murdered as many as 300 Black citizens in the affluent Greenwood District, then widely known as Black Wall Street.
Many viewers had never heard of the event, which has been called the single worst incident of racial violence in America. But for Salima Koroma, director-producer of
Dreamland: The Rise and Fall of Black Wall Street, this history has been etched in her mind for years.
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On May 31 the United States marked one of the darkest moments in its history: the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Massacre. From May 31 to June 1, 1921, a .