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100 years ago, a White mob in Tulsa, Okla., killed 300 Black people and reduced a thriving Black community to ashes. New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow talks about one of the most notorious massacres in U.S. history and those who witnessed it. ....
The Rockefeller Foundation Updates I was in eighth grade when I first learned about the terror inflicted on the lively and prosperous community of Tulsa’s Greenwood District in 1921. I held back tears then, but I couldn’t earlier this month as I listened to Viola Ford Fletcher, now 107, testifying before Congress about that night. Her quiet dignity made me think of my own Mississippi grandmother. “I still see Black men being shot, Black bodies lying in the street,” said Mother Fletcher, as she is known. “I still smell smoke and see fire. I still see Black businesses being burned. I still hear airplanes flying overhead. I hear the screams. I have lived through the massacre every day…I’m here seeking justice, and I’m asking my country to acknowledge what happened in Tulsa in 1921.” ....