By JONATHAN LEMIRE and DARLENE SUPERVILLE
Associated Press
TULSA, Okla. (AP) â President Joe Biden led a remembrance Tuesday of one of the nationâs darkest â and long suppressed â moments of racial violence, marking the 100th anniversary of the destruction of a thriving Black community in Tulsa.
Biden helped commemorate the deaths of hundreds of Black people killed by a white mob a century ago, his visit coming amid a national reckoning on racial justice. The events stood in stark contrast to then-President Donald Trump s trip a year ago, which was greeted by protests.
Biden is the first president to participate in remembrances of the destruction of what was known as âBlack Wall Street.â In 1921 â on May 31 and June 1 â when a white mob, including some people hastily deputized by authorities, looted and burned the Greenwood district.