Opinion | The Tulsa race massacre's 'public nuisance' is an ongoing injustice washingtonpost.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from washingtonpost.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Much of what the world knows about the Tulsa massacre, one of the most consequential events of state-sanctioned racial violence and displacement in America’s history, started with the work of one woman. Although Mary E. Jones Parrish’s name has made a resurgence in recent history, the impact of her book about the disaster still isn’t […]
white tulsans could control what justice looks like. could control the narrative. could control whatever they want. the only reason the black wall street existed was because of necessity. these people were not able to participate in the regular economy run by the dominant culture because of segregation. the vast majority of people who lived in greenwood were not wealthy. but they had regular jobs in the white community. and they had a regular paycheck in the white community.