Local residents gathered Friday to celebrate the legacy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with a commemorative ceremony at Mount Triumph Missionary Baptist Church in McAlester.
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Ceremony and the MLK Unity Banquet are returning to McAlester following two years of cancellations due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Pastor Persists In Efforts To Get Reparations For Tulsa Massacre Victims
Pastor Persists In Efforts To Get Reparations For Tulsa Massacre Victims
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Over the course of a day-and-a half in late May and early June 1921, a white mob, angered by the alleged assault of a white woman by a black man, burned and looted the predominantly black Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma.
The damage covered 35 city blocks, destroying nearly 200 businesses, displacing about 10,000 residents. Hundreds were killed in the Tulsa race massacre, deemed one of the deadliest riots in U.S. history.