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Why So Many Tulsa Residents Wrestle With Remembering And Commemorating The 1921 Massacre People in the city, particularly those descended from survivors, are still struggling with their history and the details of what was kept from them. Published 2 minutes ago Written by Jennifer Matthews On May 31 and June 1, 1921, the Greenwood District, 35 blocks of prosperous Black businesses and a community of well-off Black people was smoldering from an attack of racial terrorism. Today what’s left is only a small nook at the corner of Greenwood and Archer. The Oklahoma Eagle, the Black-owned newspaper that succeeded The Tulsa Star after it burned down in the 1921 massacre, sits there.

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