100 Years After the Tulsa Massacre, What Does Justice Look Like?
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100 Years After the Tulsa Massacre, What Does Justice Look Like?
In 1921, a white mob attacked the Greenwood district of Tulsa, killing hundreds of Black people and destroying the neighborhood. Justice has never been served. Can it still be today?
Lessie Benningfield Randle, a 106-year-old survivor of the Tulsa massacre.Credit.Rahim Fortune for The New York Times
May 25, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
As dusk was falling on Sept. 16, 2016, callers began dialing 9-1-1 to report that a Lincoln Navigator had been abandoned on 36th Street North in Tulsa, Okla.
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11:36In this story from 2000, CBC reporter Sandra Batson takes a look at the history of African Americans who came to the Canadian Prairies, and the discrimination they confronted in search of a better life.11:36
In this 2000 report for the
The Magazine, Sandra Batson (now the host of CBC Edmonton News) explores the history of African-Americans who came to the Canadian Prairies and the discrimination they confronted in search of a better life.
Updated: 4:30 PM EDT May 10, 2021 Mecca Rayne Anchor/Reporter It s a history so painful most didn t or wouldn’t talk about it.But tough conversations are necessary for the Tulsa Race Massacre. The violence seen that day eventually became the center of several lawsuits. Nearly 100 years ago, horrors befell Tulsa s once-thriving Black community of Greenwood. The victims stories were fraught with terror and violence, spurred on by racism.During a time when racism was alive and legal, Black Wall Street created a world and walls where Black Oklahomans could thrive. Their own space was able to provide all-important services that outside were nearly impossible to receive without the threat of unfair treatment. So the residents were business owners, doctors, service providers and more. They did well.But that fateful day in 1921 changed everything the community worked so hard to build. Their homes, way of life and peace were demolished. Many lost their lives
Updated: 3:30 PM CDT May 10, 2021 Mecca Rayne Anchor/Reporter It s a history so painful most didn t or wouldn’t talk about it.But tough conversations are necessary for the Tulsa Race Massacre. The violence seen that day eventually became the center of several lawsuits. Nearly 100 years ago, horrors befell Tulsa s once-thriving Black community of Greenwood. The victims stories were fraught with terror and violence, spurred on by racism.During a time when racism was alive and legal, Black Wall Street created a world and walls where Black Oklahomans could thrive. Their own space was able to provide all-important services that outside were nearly impossible to receive without the threat of unfair treatment. So the residents were business owners, doctors, service providers and more. They did well.But that fateful day in 1921 changed everything the community worked so hard to build. Their homes, way of life and peace were demolished. Many lost their lives
It’s a history so painful most didn’t or wouldn’t talk about it.But tough conversations are necessary for the Tulsa Race Massacre, whose violence eventually because the center of several lawsuits. By now, you’re aware of the horrors that befell the once-thriving Black community of Greenwood. During a time when racism was alive and legal, Black Wall Street created a world and walls where Black Oklahomans could thrive. Their own space was able to provide all-important services that outside were nearly impossible to receive without the threat of unfair treatment. So the residents were business owners, doctors, service providers and more. They did well.But that fateful day in 1921 changed everything the community worked so hard to build. Their homes, way of life and peace were demolished. Many lost their lives. What happened remained a secret for years. The magnitude of the violence was so great that victims opted to suppress the details. Eventually, the veil of darkness lif