Tulsa race massacre of 1921, one of the most severe incidents of racial violence in U.S. history. It occurred in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Beginning on May 31, 1921, and lasting for two days, it left between 30 and 300 people dead, mostly African Americans, and destroyed Tulsa’s prosperous Black neighborhood Greenwood.
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
May 31, 2021, 1:16 PM UTC
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.
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