There’s been undeniable progress in the relationship between the Tulsa police and the city’s Black community in the past 100 years. Then again, it’s hard to imagine it could have gotten worse.Complaints about police bias and a lack of enough minority.
By: Ashley Holden
TULSA, Oklahoma -
Monday marked 100 years since the start of one of the most infamous moments in Tulsa’s history.
On that day, the Greenwood District was burned down. Hundreds were killed.
Black Wall Street is much smaller than it was a century ago.
People gathered Monday to remember those that were lost, still unknown and to mark the ground as sacred.
Two survivors of the massacre were at the event. To our dear survivors, Mr. Ellis and Mother Fletcher, U.S. Rep. Hank Johnson (Georgia) said. We are so indebted to you for your example.
The survivors of the massacre are why people finally learned what happened 100 years ago.
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There's been some progress in the relationship between the Tulsa police and the city's Black community in the 100 years since the Tulsa Race Massacre left as many as 300 Black people dead and thousands of Black residents displaced
There has been undeniable progress in the relationship between the Tulsa police and the city’s black community in the past 100 years. Then again, it is hard to imagine it could have gotten worse.
Complaints about police bias and a lack of enough minority officers remain.
Yet the police chief is now a black man from north Tulsa, the area that includes what was once the US’ wealthiest black business district.
Back in 1921 decades before the civil rights movement even the thought of a black police chief would have been inconceivable. On May 31 and June 1 that year,