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The Tulsa Massacre, Greenwood, and the Trauma that still plagues Black America

The Tulsa Massacre, Greenwood, and the Trauma that still plagues Black America

The devastation of the Tulsa Race Massacre

The 1921 attack by a White mob on an all-Black neighbourhood in Oklahoma was one of the worst episodes of racial violence in US history.

A rumor, then a gunshot: How 'Black Wall Street' was decimated in the Tulsa Race Massacre

Tulsa Race Massacre: How 'Black Wall Street' burned down in 1921

9:13 am UTC May. 28, 2021 Editor s note: The following may include first-person accounts of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre contain graphic depictions and antiquated racial terminology. We have chosen not to edit these survivor accounts to leave their stories unencumbered by interpretation or exclusion. TULSA, Okla. – After 100 years, the stories of brutality and destruction are almost unfathomable. A white mob s attack on Greenwood, a district of Tulsa, Oklahoma, home to about 10,000 people, left the community in ruins, reduced to a pile of smoldering bricks and debris. May 31-June 1, 1921, was a nightmare for Black Tulsans whose success and insistence on being treated fairly ended with a rumor triggering one of the worst race massacres in 20th-century America.

A century after 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, Greenwood still rebuilding

2:46 pm UTC May. 26, 2021 Editor s note: The following may include first-person accounts of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre contain graphic depictions and antiquated racial terminology. We have chosen not to edit these survivor accounts to leave their stories unencumbered by interpretation or exclusion. TULSA After 100 years, the stories of brutality and destruction are almost unfathomable. A white mob s attack on Greenwood, home to about 10,000 people, left the community in ruins, reduced to a pile of smoldering bricks and debris. May 31-June 1, 1921, was a nightmare for Black Tulsans whose success and insistence on being treated fairly ended with a rumor triggering one of the worst race massacres in 20th-century America.