Biden declared that the nation must learn from its “dark sides” as he became the first president to lead a remembrance ceremony in Tulsa for victims of the long overlooked racist massacre.
Biden becomes first president to lead remembrance for Tulsa race massacre victims Chris Sommerfeldt
Joe Biden declared Tuesday that the nation must learn from its “dark sides” as he became the first president to lead a remembrance ceremony in Tulsa for victims of the long overlooked racist massacre that unfolded in the Oklahoma city’s historically Black Greenwood district a century ago.
Marking the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Biden said he traveled to Oklahoma for the remembrance to “fill the silence” that has hung over the May 31, 1921 tragedy, when a white mob looted and burned Greenwood and killed hundreds of its Black residents.