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The 1921 attack by a White mob on the all-Black Tulsa neighborhood of Greenwood was one of the worst episodes of racial violence in U.S. history. As the city marks the massacre’s 100th anniversary this week, this is what happened and what was lost. ....
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan One hundred years ago, Tulsa Oklahomaâs thriving African American neighborhood of Greenwood, known as âBlack Wall Streetâ for its concentration of successful, Black-owned businesses, was burned to the ground by a white mob. The violence grew from a confrontation at the Tulsa courthouse, where whites had been massing to abduct and lynch a jailed African American man who had been wrongfully accused of assaulting a white woman. Black residents of Greenwood arrived to stop the lynching. Gunshots erupted, after which the white mob set upon Greenwood for 18 hours of mass murder, arson, and looting that would become known as the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. ....
Attorney Damario Solomon-Simmons and his co-counsel on a lawsuit demanding Tulsa Race Massacre reparations said righting 1921 injustice is overdue. ....
Tulsa race massacre survivors remember Greenwood before White mob tore it all down May 26, 2021 / 9:15 AM / CBS News Last survivors of Tulsa race massacre speak The Tulsa massacre took place 100 years ago, but it s still clearly ingrained in the minds of survivors Viola Fletcher and Lessie Benningfield Randle. In a CBS News special airing on May 31 at 10 p.m. ET, the centenarians described the affluent neighborhood of Greenwood, known at the time as Black Wall Street, before it was destroyed by a White mob in a two-day attack that resulted in about 300 deaths. We had friends and played outside and visited with neighbors and was happy there with our parents. Just loved being there, Fletcher, 107, told CBS This Morning co-host Gayle King, who anchored Tulsa 1921: An American Tragedy. ....