National civil rights leaders joined multiple local faith leaders offering prayers and remarks outside the church that was largely destroyed by a white mob in 1921.
National civil rights leaders joined multiple local faith leaders offering prayers and remarks outside the church that was largely destroyed by a white mob in 1921.
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 spent much of the last century denying the 1921 race massacre. Now the city is finally acknowledging the history and its lasting scars, even as it resists calls for reparations for the survivors and descendants.