Survivors remember Tulsa race massacre 100 years later as Biden marks anniversary
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After 100 years remembering, last survivors mark race massacre in Tulsa
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Lessie Benningfield Randle, 106, can still remember a house engulfed in flames and the bodies stacked on trucks, one hundred years later. I was quite a little kid but I remember running and the soldiers were coming in, Ms Randle said in an interview with Reuters as her Oklahoma hometown of Tulsa prepared to mark one of the darkest chapters in its history.
31 May marks the centenary of a massacre targeting Tulsa s prosperous African-American community in the district of Greenwood that bore the nickname Black Wall Street .
After a black man was accused of assaulting a white woman, an allegation that was never proven, white rioters gunned down blacks, looted homes and set fire to buildings block by block. More than 1,000 buildings were destroyed.