Discrimination, urban renewal killed Black Wall Streets outside Tulsa freep.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from freep.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Letter: Never forget burning of Black Wall Street in Tulsa
Portsmouth Herald
May 29 - To the Editor:
This Tuesday marks the 100th anniversary of the infamous burning of Black Wall Street, one of the worst unrecorded tragedies of the 20th century. In 1921, the Tulsa Tribune published an inflammatory story titled, Nab Negro for Attacking Girl in an Elevator, setting off years of building racial tensions. Bustling with shoppers, visitors, tourists, and even investors, Black Wall Street in Tulsa, Oklahoma, was busied by banks, restaurants, hotels, mutual aid societies, insurance companies, law firms, all razed. At least 300 people were killed in the attack, yet the mainstream media rarely mentions the tragedy.
KUOW - Artist's Black Wall Street Project Is About Tulsa 100 Years Ago — And Today kuow.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from kuow.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Paul Rucker's multimedia work tackles mass incarceration, lynching, police brutality and the ways America has been shaped by slavery. His latest marks the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre.