The Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Commission on Thursday canceled an event for Memorial Day that was slated to include Stacey Abrams and singer John Legend.
It's been 100 years since white residents of Tulsa, Oklahoma laid waste to a thriving Black community, the Greenwood District, also known as Black Wall Street.
The last remaining survivors are fighting for reparations. City leaders are building a $30 million museum. Here s a look at how Tulsa is grappling with.
Tracing Kansas Cityâs Ties to the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
Centennial Next Week Share this story Published 2 hours ago Above image credit: The ruins of Black Wall Street after the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921. (Courtesy | Library of Congress)
Last October an Oklahoma forensic team found 12 unmarked coffins containing human remains in a Tulsa cemetery.
What investigators called a âmass graveâ represented evidence of what witnesses had described almost a century ago â that victims of what often is considered the worst incident of racial violence in American history had been buried together without any stone or memorial marking the spot.
The discovery also meant 21
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Editor s note: The following may include first-person accounts of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre contain graphic depictions and antiquated racial terminology. We have chosen not to edit these survivor accounts to leave their stories unencumbered by interpretation or exclusion.
TULSA After 100 years, the stories of brutality and destruction are almost unfathomable. A white mob s attack on Greenwood, home to about 10,000 people, left the community in ruins, reduced to a pile of smoldering bricks and debris.
May 31-June 1, 1921, was a nightmare for Black Tulsans whose success and insistence on being treated fairly ended with a rumor triggering one of the worst race massacres in 20th-century America.