'The loss is incalculable': descendants of the Tulsa massacre on what was stolen from them | Oklahoma
Last modified on Mon 31 May 2021 03.01 EDT Earlier this month, the three known survivors of the 1921 Tulsa massacre testified in Congress about the world they lost when a white mob burned their thriving community to the ground. âThe neighborhood I fell asleep in that night was rich â not just in terms of wealth, but in culture, community and heritage,â said Viola Fletcher, who was visiting the US capital for the first time in her 107 years. âWithin a few hours, all of that was gone.â After being willfully suppressed from the national memory for close to a century, in ...
Source: theguardian.com
