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'We can't avoid that past': A century later, story of America's worst race massacre finally being told

For decades, many details of what happened in Tulsa a century ago were "rigorously suppressed," historian says ....

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A century later, story of America's worst race massacre finally being told

TULSA, Okla. — John W. Franklin wept as he read his grandfather’s account of the Tulsa Race Massacre. ....

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Books, Media and Events for the 100th Anniversary of Tulsa

For the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre, the New York Times has released an interactive experience, What the Tulsa Massacre Destroyed, that takes viewers through the streets of a digitally created and historically accurate Greenwood neighborhood, demonstrating the destruction the massacre created. Greenwood, Tulsa, Oklahoma was considered the “Black Wall Street” in the 1920s and after a group of Black individuals tried to stop the lynching of a Greenwood resident, a mob of white people from the next town over opened fire on the small town, inciting what is still known as the singular worst display of racial violence the country has ever seen.
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A century later, story of America's worst race massacre finally being told

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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. â John W. Franklin wept as he read his grandfatherâs 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.
âI wept the first time I read it, the second time I read it, and the third time I read it,â he said about B.C. Franklinâs eyewitness account of the 1921 massacre. It describes the horrors in Tulsa s affluent, thriving Greenwood District, when a white mob â fueled by racism, envy and fear â murdered, looted and burned out the Black c ....

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