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1 of 2 KYLE PHILLIPS PHOTO / CNHI News ServicePhil Armstrong, project manager for the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Commission, awaits completion of Greenwood Rising. COURTESY OKLAHOMA HISTORICAL SOCIETYThe Tulsa Race Massacre destroyed more than 1,200 homes and businesses in in 1921. TULSA, Okla. — John W. Franklin wept as he read his grandfather’s account of the Tulsa Race Massacre. The fragile, yellowing, 90-year-old document, which recounts the worst race massacre in U.S. history, now sits in the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. “I wept the first time I read it, the second time I read it, and the third time I read it,” he said about B.C. Franklin’s eyewitness account of the 1921 massacre. It describes the horrors in Tulsa s affluent, thriving Greenwood District, when a white mob — fueled by racism, envy and fear — murdered, looted and burned out the Black community with impu

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