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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 ...
The Wall Street bombing was an act of terrorism on Wall Street at 12:01 pm on Thursday, September 16, 1920. The blast killed 30 people immediately, and another 10 later died of wounds that they sustained in the blast.
The violence took place in Tulsa, Okla., on May 31 and June 1, 1921 when a White mob descended on the city’s thriving Greenwood business district, known as “Black Wall Street,” burning and ...
The Tulsa race massacre, also known as the Tulsa race riot or the Black Wall Street massacre, [25] was a two-day-long white supremacist terrorist [26] [27] massacre [28] 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, [29] attacked ...
"Beautiful, bustling, and Black"—that was how author, attorney, and activist Hannibal B. Johnson described Tulsa, Oklahoma's Greenwood District in his book "Black Wall Street: From Riot to ...
A Black Wall Street mural is pictured June 12, 2020, on the north side of Interstate 244 that runs through the historic Greenwood District in North Tulsa, know at the time as the Black Wall Street ...
Wall Street bombing: A horse-drawn wagon filled with explosives was detonated in front of the J. P. Morgan bank on Wall Street, killing 38 and wounding 143. Galleanist anarchists were again suspected, but the perpetrators were never caught. [17] Galleanist anarchists (suspected) 42 June 1, 1921
The Black Wall Street may refer to: Greenwood District, Tulsa, Oklahoma, a neighborhood containing many African-American businesses in the early 20th Century Tulsa race massacre of 1921, in which a white mob destroyed much of Greenwood; Jackson Ward, a thriving African-American business community in Richmond, Virginia