TULSA, Okla. (AP) Hundreds gathered Monday for an interfaith service dedicating a prayer wall outside historic Vernon African Methodist Episcopal Church in Tulsa's Greenwood neighborhood on the centennial of the first day of one of the deadliest racist massacres in the nation.
Tulsa race massacre of 1921, one of the most severe incidents of racial violence in U.S. history. It occurred in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Beginning on May 31, 1921, and lasting for two days, it left between 30 and 300 people dead, mostly African Americans, and destroyed Tulsa’s prosperous Black neighborhood Greenwood.
U.S. President Joe Biden is headed Tuesday to Tulsa, Oklahoma, to commemorate the centennial of the Tulsa Race Massacre, a white mob’s terrifying 1921 destruction of a Black community that left 300 people dead and 10,000 homeless. To this day, it is an episode in the country’s fraught history over racial violence that many Americans…
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One century ago today, a white mob attacked Black Wall Street in one of the worst acts of racial violence in American history. Democratic Oklahoma State Senator and Chair of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Commission, Kevin Matthews, joined Stephanie Ruhle to discuss the anniversary and how the country is remembering the victims 100 years later.May 31, 2021
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