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After the 100th anniversary, questions remain over how to remember one of the worst acts of racial terror in U.S. history and what the victims are owed.
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Scholars excavating scene of Tulsa Race Massacre are working to reconstruct a suppressed history By Tori B. Powell Scholars excavate scene of Tulsa massacre
Nearly 100 years after the Tulsa Race Massacre, a team of scholars is working to uncover the unmarked graves of victims with hopes of identifying some of their bodies. We knew its history had been suppressed, Phoebe Stubblefield, a forensic anthropologist at the University of Florida, said in an interview with CBSN. The first challenge, then, was finding where the dead are buried.
Between May 31 and June 1, 1921, a White mob looted and destroyed a section of Tulsa, Oklahoma, called Greenwood, where many Black families lived at the time. It was known to some as the Black Wall Street. The mob was fueled by claims that a Black teenager attacked a White woman.
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Before the Tulsa Race Massacre, the cityâs African American district thrived as a community of business leaders and visionaries.
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Customers stand outside Berry s Service Station in Tulsa. Credit: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Princetta R. Newman
Before the Tulsa Race Massacre, the cityâs African American district thrived as a community of business leaders and visionaries.
As more is learned about the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, including the discovery of mass graves, the stories of the African Americans who turned the city’s Greenwood district into “Black Wall Street” are equally as revealing. Before a white mob decimated 35 blocks of a thriving community, African Americans had migrated to Tulsa, pooling their resources and building wealth to create successful businesses amid Jim Crow discrimination.