The Tulsa Race Massacre is just one of the starkest examples of how Black wealth has been sapped, again and again, by racism and racist violence forcing generation after generation to start from scratch while shouldering the burdens of being Black in America.
100 years after Tulsa Race Massacre, the damage remains
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A burned blook in the Greenwood District is seen after the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre in Tulsa, Ok. (Tulsa Historical Society and Museum)
May 25, 2021
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Not her body. She had left this Earth 18 years ago, at age 100. But on this day, three generations of her family brought Ernestine’s keepsakes back to this place which meant so much to her. A place that was, like their matriarch, a survivor of a long-ago atrocity.
Albums containing black-and-white photos of the grocery business that has employed generations of Gibbses. VHS cassette tapes of Ernestine reflecting on her life. Ernestine’s high school and college diplomas, displayed in not-so-well-aged leather covers.
The Tulsa Race Massacre is just one of the starkest examples of how Black wealth has been sapped, again and again, by racism and racist violence forcing generation after generation to start from scratch while shouldering the burdens of being Black in America.
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