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Editor s note: The following 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. From a small office inside the Greenwood Cultural Center in Oklahoma on a recent Saturday afternoon, Tiffany Crutcher could look south and see a Black Wall Street mural under a freeway, then east and see Vernon African Methodist Episcopal Church, the only Black-owned building that remains from the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921.
A short walk would lead to old railroad tracks that historically divided the predominantly Black north side of Tulsa from the south part of the city.