when as many as 300 in the thriving black wall street district were slaughtered by a white mob. that s the story. any mitigation of that is not the truth. and at the same time that we condemn this as obscene, as a reminder of what is wrong, we see in realtime today one of the greatest assaults on democracy under way once again targeting minorities. the party of trump intensifying its efforts to strip people of color of their rights to vote. the boldest attempt since the era of jim crow. president biden drew a through line in tulsa today. 100 years ago at this hour on this first day of june, smoke darkened the tulsa sky. this was not a riot. this was a massacre.
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100 years ago at this hour on this 1st day of june, smoke darkened the tulsa sky, rising from 35 blocks of greenwood that were left in ash and ember, razed and rubble. less than 24 hours less than 24 hours, 1,100 black homes and businesses were lost. my fellow americans, this was not a riot. this was a massacre. president biden speaking in oklahoma today on the 100th anniversary of the tulsa race massacre. the attack is likely the single largest event of race-based
this first day of june, smoke darkened the tulsa sky. this was not a riot. this was a massacre. i come here to help fill the silence. because in silence, wounds deepen. what happened in greenwood was an act of hate and domestic terrorism. with a through line that exists today still. reporter: a through line, a throughline of hate. a through line means just because there s not another tulsa massacre doesn t mean the efforts are not equally unholy and un-american. those efforts that we ve seen recently. the president referenced charlottesville, neo-nazis brandishing torches. a century later, hate crimes against jewish and
of may 31st, 1921, an angry white mob stormed through tulsa s greenwood neighborhood, also known as black wall street. in less than 24 hours, more than 1,000 homes and businesses were destroyed. an estimated 300 black americans killed. all after allegations that were never proven, that a black man assaulted a white woman in an elevator. today, what no president has ever done, standing in tulsa, putting words to the horror of what happened. 100 years ago, at this hour, on this first day of june, smoke darkened the tulsa sky. rising from 35 blocks of greenwood, they were left in ash and ember, razed in rubble. the mob terrorized greenwood, torches and guns, shooting at will. a mob tied a black man by the waist to the back of their truck with his head banging along the pavement as they drove off.