May 29—Decades before the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, Southwest Missouri was stained by similar violence — the lynching of Black residents followed by mob violence to drive out the Black community. More than a dozen lynchings are recorded in the Joplin area, with four considered by historians to have driven out Black families: Monett in 1894, Pierce City in 1901, Joplin in 1903 and Springfield .