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Book World: The destruction of Black Wall Street and its long aftermath

By Victor Luckerson

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Amid Juneteenth celebrations, 109-year-old Tulsa race riot survivor tells News of 1921 massacre that claimed hundreds of Black lives

Amid Juneteenth celebrations, 109-year-old Tulsa race riot survivor tells News of 1921 massacre that claimed hundreds of Black lives
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Amid Juneteenth celebrations, 109-year-old Tulsa race riot survivor tells News of 1921 massacre that claimed hundreds of Black lives

For years, she wouldn’t admit it. For years after that, she wouldn’t even discuss it. Even thinking about what happened to her family and community felt like a crime punishable by more death and destruction. Over time, Viola Ford Fletcher began to tell her story. How much time? Fletcher is 109 years old, and next month — on Independence Day — Fletcher is releasing a new book chronicling one of .

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The Trauma and Resilience of Tulsa s Greenwood District

Karlos K. Hill, a historian of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, speaks with Victor Luckerson, author of an “epic” new book on Greenwood.

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The Tulsa Race Massacre

It's been more than 100 years since white residents of Tulsa, Oklahoma laid waste to a thriving Black community, the Greenwood District, also known as Black Wall Street.

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