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The Tulsa race massacre, also known as the Tulsa race riot or the Black Wall Street massacre, [12] was a two-day-long white supremacist terrorist [13] [14] massacre [15] that took place between May 31 and June 1, 1921, when mobs of white residents, some of whom had been appointed as deputies and armed by city government officials, [16] attacked black residents and destroyed homes and ...
Greenwood, Tulsa. Greenwood is a historic freedom colony in Tulsa, Oklahoma. As one of the most prominent concentrations of African-American businesses in the United States during the early 20th century, it was popularly known as America's "Black Wall Street". It was burned to the ground in the Tulsa race massacre of 1921, in which a local ...
Dick Rowland. Dick Rowland or Roland[1] (Born Jimmie Jones and Diamond Dick Rowland[1] in news reports, born c. 1902 — c. 1960s - 1979? [2]) was an African American teenage shoeshiner whose arrest for assault in May 1921 was the impetus for the Tulsa race massacre. Rowland was 19 years old at the time. The alleged victim of the assault was a ...
Ellis died last year. The U.S. Department of Justice's Cold Case Unit has begun a "review and evaluation" of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. The announcement was made by Assistant U.S. Attorney ...
The remains of two adults have been found in an archaeological dig at Oak Lawn Cemetery in Tulsa, Oklahoma, amid efforts to find unidentified victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.
From May 31 to June 1, 1921, one of the single worst acts of racial violence in American history took place as mobs of white residents of Tulsa, Oklahoma, attacked the black people and black-owned ...
June 18, 2021. (2021-06-18TUnited States) Rise Again: Tulsa and the Red Summer is a 2021 American documentary television film, directed and produced by Dawn Porter. It follows journalist DeNeen Brown who investigates the Tulsa race massacre in the search for mass graves, and new insights. It was released on June 18, 2021, by National Geographic.
Education. Atlanta University (BA) Walter Francis White (July 1, 1893 – March 21, 1955) was an American civil rights activist who led the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) for a quarter of a century, from 1929 until 1955. He directed a broad program of legal challenges to racial segregation and disfranchisement.