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Tulsa Race Massacre: 100 years ago, a White mob torched 'Black Wall Street' and slaughtered Black residents

This May 31 and June 1 will mark 100 years since the Tulsa Race Massacre. A White mob stormed a Black neighborhood in Tulsa’s Greenwood District – leaving an estimated 300 people dead. Scholars have called it "the single worst incident of racial violence in American history." ....

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A rumor, then a gunshot: How 'Black Wall Street' was decimated in the Tulsa Race Massacre

A rumor, then a gunshot: How 'Black Wall Street' was decimated in the Tulsa Race Massacre
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Tulsa Race Massacre: How 'Black Wall Street' burned down in 1921

9:13 am UTC May. 28, 2021
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, Okla. – After 100 years, the stories of brutality and destruction are almost unfathomable. A white mob s attack on Greenwood, a district of Tulsa, Oklahoma, 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. ....

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A century after 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, Greenwood still rebuilding

2:46 pm UTC May. 26, 2021
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. ....

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Oklahoma Hall of Fame names Roscoe Dunjee, Jim Stovall to 2021 class

He chairs the education committee for the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Commission and serves as local curator of its new history center, Greenwood Rising, which will be dedicated on June 2 as part of the centennial commemoration. He recently published his 10th book, Black Wall Street 100: An American City Grapples With Its Historical Racial Trauma.
In addition, the Tulsa author, attorney and independent consultant was named Thursday to the 2021 class of the Oklahoma Hall of Fame.
I am humbled and honored to join the Oklahoma Hall of Fame. Much of my work centers on building community through education and shared experiences. That work is its own reward. This added, high-level recognition is like icing on the cake, Johnson said in an email to The Oklahoman. ....

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