Why So Many Tulsa Residents Wrestle With Remembering And Commemorating The 1921 Massacre
People in the city, particularly those descended from survivors, are still struggling with their history and the details of what was kept from them.
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Written by Jennifer Matthews
On May 31 and June 1, 1921, the Greenwood District, 35 blocks of prosperous Black businesses and a community of well-off Black people was smoldering from an attack of racial terrorism.
Today what’s left is only a small nook at the corner of Greenwood and Archer.
The Oklahoma Eagle, the Black-owned newspaper that succeeded
The Tulsa Star after it burned down in the 1921 massacre, sits there.
One Tulsa, LLC and its founder Fred Jones announced details about the multi generational, multi-genre compilation album 1921.The Black Wall Street Music Project.
On the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre, we asked a cross-section of Oklahoma elected officials two questions: When and how did you first learn of the massacre, and
Tulsa Race Massacre survivors are fighting for reparations, 100 years later
Reparations won’t restore the hard-earned generational Black wealth stolen in the Tulsa massacre. But it’s the least America can do.
People search through the rubble after the Tulsa Race Massacre, in the Greenwood District of Tulsa, Oklahoma, June 1921.MSNBC / Getty Images
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At 106 years old, Lessie Benningfield Randle is one of the oldest known survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre. And like so many others before her, she is demanding redress for the trauma she and her family endured, including the insurmountable loss of property.
According to a Washington Post-ABC News poll from July 2020, only 31 percent of Americans favor reparations.
Much of the acrimony in Tulsa revolves around the issue of reparations for the 1921 race massacre, which left as many as 300 dead, 10,000 homeless and destroyed one of the most prosperous Black neighborhoods in the country.