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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 ...
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 district, also known as Black Wall Street, was the site of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. On May 31 and June 1 that year, roughly 35 blocks of the nation’s most prosperous Black community ...
"The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre temporarily stilled the economic engines that revved on Black Wall Street. That said, the community quickly rebounded and rebuilt, peaking economically in the 1940s ...
Map of Tulsa in 1920. Another community that flourished in Tulsa during the early oil booms was Greenwood. It was the largest and wealthiest of Oklahoma's African American communities and was known nationally as "Black Wall Street". The neighborhood was a hotbed of jazz and blues in the 1920s.
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 ...
O. W. Gurley (December 25, 1867 – August 6, 1935) was once one of the wealthiest Black men and a founder of the Greenwood district in Tulsa, Oklahoma, known as "Black Wall Street". [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Early life
A map of Tulsa in 1920. ... Tulsa was home to the "Black Wall Street", one of the most prosperous Black communities in the United States at the time. [21]