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100 years ago, this area was known as Black Wall Street. Then it came to a heartbreaking end


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100 years ago, this area was known as Black Wall Street. Then it came to a heartbreaking end
May 16, 2021 12:33 PM
CNN
FILE - In this Monday, June 15, 2020, file photo, a sign marks the intersection of Greenwood Avenue and Archer Street, the former home of Black Wall Street, in Tulsa, Okla. Black community leaders in Tulsa said they fear a large rally by President Donald Trump in the city this weekend could spark violence, and the state s governor asked Trump not to visit the site of a race massacre where up to 300 black residents were killed by white mobs in 1921. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki) ....

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What Role Did Airplanes Play in the Tulsa Race Massacre?


What Role Did Airplanes Play in the Tulsa Race Massacre?
Few historians dispute that planes flew low over the city s prosperous Black district during the 1921 attack. What s less clear: whether bullets were fired or incendiaries were dropped.
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Few historians dispute that planes flew low over the city s prosperous Black district during the 1921 attack. What s less clear: whether bullets were fired or incendiaries were dropped.
What role did airplanes play in the deadly Tulsa race massacre of 1921?
Just after Memorial Day that year, a white mob destroyed 35 city blocks of the Greenwood District, a community in Tulsa, Oklahoma known as the “Black Wall Street.” Prompted by an allegation that a Black man had sexually assaulted a white woman, the Tulsa massacre resulted in between 100 and 300 deaths, the decimation of more than 1,200 homes and the burning of churches, schools, businesses, a ....

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Black History week began in 1926, five years after the Tulsa Massacre, by historian, scholar, and author Dr. Carter G. Woodson.  Dr. Woodson chose a week during February to honor the Great Emancipator President Abraham Lincoln and Scholar and Orator Frederick Douglas s birthdays. Douglass escaped slavery and became a prominent activist, author, and public speaker. He was a leader in the abolitionist movement, which sought to end slavery practices of slavery. The purpose of Black History Week was to honor the significant contributions of African Americans in U.S. history.  In 1976, during President Gerald Ford s administration, Black History Week expanded to a month-long celebration. ....

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