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The racist, violent attack on Black Wall Street and its residents is finally in the open — and raising questions about all that Americans don’t know and have tried to hide.
This May 31 and June 1 will mark 100 years since the Tulsa Race Massacre. A White mob stormed a Black neighborhood in Tulsa’s Greenwood District – leaving an estimated 300 people dead. Scholars have called it "the single worst incident of racial violence in American history."
9:13 am UTC May. 28, 2021 Editor's note: The following may include first-person accounts of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre contain graphic depictions and antiquated racial terminology. We have chosen not to edit these survivor accounts to leave their stories unencumbered by interpretation or exclusion. TULSA, Okla. – After 100 years, the stories of brutality and destruction are almost unfathomable. A white mob's attack on Greenwood, a district of Tulsa, Oklahoma, home to about 10,000 people, left the community in ruins, reduced to a pile of smoldering bricks and debris. May 31-June 1, 1921,...
2:46 pm UTC May. 26, 2021 Editor's note: The following may include first-person accounts of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre contain graphic depictions and antiquated racial terminology. We have chosen not to edit these survivor accounts to leave their stories unencumbered by interpretation or exclusion. TULSA — After 100 years, the stories of brutality and destruction are almost unfathomable. A white mob's attack on Greenwood, home to about 10,000 people, left the community in ruins, reduced to a pile of smoldering bricks and debris. May 31-June 1, 1921, was a nightmare for Black Tulsans wh...
He chairs the education committee for the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Commission and serves as local curator of its new history center, Greenwood Rising, which will be dedicated on June 2 as part of the centennial commemoration. He recently published his 10th book, "Black Wall Street 100: An American City Grapples With Its Historical Racial Trauma." In addition, the Tulsa author, attorney and independent consultant was named Thursday to the 2021 class of the Oklahoma Hall of Fame. "I am humbled and honored to join the Oklahoma Hall of Fame. Much of my work centers on building comm...