It's been 100 years since the Tulsa Race Massacre: From May 31 to June 1, 1921, a giant mob of white supremacists—some deputized by city officials—looted and burned down the Black neighborhood of Greenwood in Tulsa, OK. Known as Black Wall Street because of its prosperity, somewhere from 100 to 300 people were killed during the siege. Historians estimate that over 1,200 homes and businesses were completely destroyed, reports NPR. News about the massacre was.
An emotional President Joe Biden marked the 100th anniversary of the massacre that destroyed a thriving Black community in Tulsa, declaring Tuesday that he
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Voice of America
02 Jun 2021, 10:05 GMT+10
On Tuesday, Joe Biden became the first sitting American president to commemorate the anniversary of the destruction of a prosperous Black community by a white mob that left up to 300 people dead and 10,000 homeless. Just because history is silent, it doesn t mean that it did not take place, Biden said in remarks to survivors of the massacre and their families at the Greenwood Cultural Center. Some injustices are so heinous, so horrific, so grievous, they can t be buried, no matter how hard people try.
Biden becomes first president to lead remembrance for Tulsa race massacre victims Chris Sommerfeldt
Joe Biden declared Tuesday that the nation must learn from its “dark sides” as he became the first president to lead a remembrance ceremony in Tulsa for victims of the long overlooked racist massacre that unfolded in the Oklahoma city’s historically Black Greenwood district a century ago.
Marking the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Biden said he traveled to Oklahoma for the remembrance to “fill the silence” that has hung over the May 31, 1921 tragedy, when a white mob looted and burned Greenwood and killed hundreds of its Black residents.