Tulsa Race Massacre: 5 free online resources to learn about the tragedy
The Tulsa Race Massacre is a dark chapter in American history that was hidden from history books for a long time. Honor its victims and learn about it with these free, online resources.
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2021-05-31 09:45:00 UTC
If you haven t heard of the Tulsa Race Massacre or Black Wall Street, here s your chance to rectify that.Â
Monday marks the massacre s 100th anniversary. Rumors and media reports that a Black 19-year-old, Dick Rowland, had assaulted a white 17-year-old, Sarah Page, in an elevator in Tulsa, Oklahoma sparked the massacre. A conflicting
Descendants of Greenwood residents who survived the massacre reflect on the legacy of what was lost, their ancestors' heroism and where exactly to go from here.
TULSA, Okla. (AP) Hundreds gathered Monday for an interfaith service dedicating a prayer wall outside historic Vernon African Methodist Episcopal Church in Tulsa's Greenwood neighborhood on the centennial of the first day of one of the deadliest racist massacres in the nation.
Tulsa race massacre of 1921, one of the most severe incidents of racial violence in U.S. history. It occurred in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Beginning on May 31, 1921, and lasting for two days, it left between 30 and 300 people dead, mostly African Americans, and destroyed Tulsa’s prosperous Black neighborhood Greenwood.