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A full century after a white mob destroyed the predominantly Black neighborhood of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma, a group of now very old survivors told House lawmakers that they are still waiting on justice.  Mt. Zion Baptist Church burns after being torched by white mobs during the 1921 Tulsa massacre. (Image courtesy of Greenwood Cultural Center) WASHINGTON (CN)  In May 1921, a 19-year-old Black man named Dick Rowland accidentally stepped on a white woman’s toe in Tulsa, Oklahoma, causing her to scream. Rowland fled the scene but was later arrested for sexual assault. On May 31, a mob of white Tulsans began to congregate outside the county courthouse with talk of lynching. They soon descended on the predominantly Black neighborhood of Greenwood.  

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