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Hundreds Gather At Vernon AME Church For Prayer Wall Dedication On Massacre's Centennial Anniversary

Chris Polansky
/ KWGS News
TULSA, Okla. (AP) Hundreds gathered Monday for an interfaith service dedicating a prayer wall outside historic Vernon African Methodist Episcopal Church in Tulsa’s Greenwood neighborhood on the centennial of the first day of one of the deadliest racist massacres in the nation.
National civil rights leaders, including the Revs. Jesse Jackson and William Barber, joined multiple local faith leaders offering prayers and remarks outside the church that was under construction and largely destroyed when a white mob descended on the prosperous Black neighborhood in 1921, burning, killing, looting and leveling a 35-square-block area. Estimates of the death toll range from dozens to 300. ....

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BBCNEWS BBC News June 1, 2021 01:09:00

Robert turner is the reverend at the vernon ame church. it was one of several burned to the ground during the massacre. the church was rebuilt with parishioners money as the insurers refused to pay out. after the massacre, - there was this movement by the white community to not ever talk about it because they knew they had gotten away with murder. . they didn t want to ever bring it up, and any of the black- people who brought it up, they were either killed, i run out of town or - intimidated into silence. not a single person was prosecuted for the murders, for the looting or for the arson. not one black family received a penny in compensation. it would take 75 years for there to be any official recognition that a massacre had taken place at all. and now, as tulsa marks the centenary, locating where the victims are buried is onlyjust beginning. ....

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BBCNEWS BBC World News June 1, 2021 00:09:00

To 300 black lives lost. few dispute that it was the worst single act of racial violence in the history of the united states. i will never forget the violence of the white mob when we left our home. i still see black men seen being shot, black bodies lying in the street. i still smell smoke and see fire. because of the massacre, my family was driven out of our home. we were left with nothing. so, here is the basement room, where people hid in. and how many do you think came down here? at least a few hundred. robert turner is the reverend at the vernon ame church. it was one of several burned to the ground during the massacre. the church was rebuilt with parishioners money as the insurers refused to pay out. ....

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Tulsa residents mark 100 years since massacre by demanding reparations

A candlelight vigil on Monday evening will commemorate the victims of the massacre, in which a white mob pillaged a prosperous Black neighborhood. ....

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BBCNEWS BBC News May 31, 2021 16:22:00

I will never forget the violence of the white mob when we left our home. i still see black men being shot, black bodies lying in the street. i still smell smoke and see fire. because of the massacre my family were driven out of our home. we were left with nothing. so here is the basement room where people hid in. and how many do you think came down here? at least a few hundred. robert turner is the reverend at the vernon ame church. it was one of several burned to the ground during the massacre. the church was rebuilt with parishioners money as the insurers refused to pay out. after the massacre there was this movement by the white community to not ever talk about it because they knew they had gotten away with murder. ....

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