Featured Document: Remembering the Tulsa Race Massacre
WASHINGTON, May 3, 2021 â A century ago this month, the Greenwood District of Tulsa, OK, known as âBlack Wall Street,â was ablaze. An incident in an elevator between a Black teenage boy and a White teenage girl triggered two days of violence against the Black community. When the smoke lifted, the destruction was massive: White residents had mobbed the neighborhood. Scores of the cityâs Black residents were dead, and dozens of blocksâhomes, businesses, livelihoodsâwere destroyed. "Eye witnesses will long remember the speeding ambulances, the crowded hospitals, dru...
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