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100 years later, FGCU students and professor help bring justice to Tulsa massacre victims Published: June 3, 2021 6:05 PM EDT Updated: June 3, 2021 6:08 PM EDT It’s been 100 years since a white mob laid waste to the Greenwood District, home to the wealthiest Black community in the U.S. at the time. Greenwood, Black Wallstreet as it was known, was leveled between May 31 and June 1 of 1921, 35 square blocks destroyed by a mob of people, many of them deputized and handed weapons by city leaders. Black neighbors were killed and their businesses destroyed in the Tulsa, Oklahoma neighborhood. Hundreds of bodies remain unidentified. FGCU master’s students and their professor are in Tulsa to help excavate the remains of those killed and dumped in a mass grave in hopes of identifying them and telling their stories. ....
Forward to, but that small piece of shrapnel buried in his brain that causes so much trouble will be with him wherever he goes. president biden has been visiting the city of tulsa in oklahoma, to mark a century since a white mob attacked a black district, killing as many as 300 people. the attack on an affluent black community known as black wallstreet followed an alleged assault on a white teenage girl. president biden has called on all americans to reflect our correspondent gary o donoghue reports from tulsa. this is the first time an american president has come to tulsa to acknowledge the horror of the massacre. local residents showed him around the greenwood cultural centre where he got to meet the only known survivors of that murderous night in 1921 america s worst single act of racial violence in its history. for much too long, the history of what took place here was told in silence, cloaked in darkness. ....