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Tulsa massacre 100 years later: Hundreds gather at historic church s prayer wall
By Peter Smith
Tulsa massacre 100 years later
A somber ceremony took place in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Monday to mark the centennial of one of the darkest days in U.S. history: the beginning of the Tulsa race massacre.
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.
National civil rights leaders, including the Revs. Jesse Jackson and William Barber, joined multiple local faith leaders offering prayers and remarks outside the church that was under construction and largely destroyed when a white mob descended on the prosperous Black neighborhood in 1921, burning, killing, looting and leveling a 35-square-block area. Estimates of the death toll range from dozens to 300.
One of the big remembrance events for the victims of the Tulsa Race Massacre was supposed to happen Monday, but it was postponed. Since then, there have been mixed messages about why.
Biden remarks to follow tour, meeting
Following his tour and meeting with survivors, Biden is scheduled to give remarks at 3:15 p.m.
Per the White House, he is scheduled to depart Tulsa at 4:50 p.m.
Biden issues proclamation for massacre to be a day of remembrance
A day before his scheduled visit to Tulsa, Biden issued a proclamation stating the must reckon with and acknowledge the role that it has played in stripping wealth and opportunity from Black communities.
Here s the president s proclamation in full:
One hundred years ago, a violent white supremacist mob raided, firebombed, and destroyed approximately 35 square blocks of the thriving Black neighborhood of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Families and children were murdered in cold blood. Homes, businesses, and churches were burned. In all, as many as 300 Black Americans were killed, and nearly 10,000 were left destitute and homeless. Today, on this solemn centennial of the Tulsa Race Massacre, I call on the American
Hundreds gathered Monday for an interfaith service dedicating a prayer wall outside historic Vernon African Methodist Episcopal Church in Tulsa s Greenwood neighborhood.