Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Website. www.cityoftulsa.org. Tulsa (/ ˈtʌlsə / TULL-sə) is the second-most-populous city in the state of Oklahoma, after Oklahoma City, and is the 48th-most-populous city in the United States. The population was 413,066 as of the 2020 census. [ 5 ] It is the principal municipality of the Tulsa metropolitan area, a region with 1,034,123 ...
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 ...
July 2, 2024 at 5:49 PM. OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Attorneys for the last two remaining survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre asked the Oklahoma Supreme Court on Tuesday to reconsider the case ...
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 ...
1910-1921. Known for. Death in Tulsa Race Massacre. A.C. Jackson was an African American surgeon who was murdered during the Tulsa race massacre in 1921 and is known as the most prominent victim of the massacre. Jackson was a leading member of the Oklahoma medical community and the African-American community in Tulsa, Oklahoma until his death.
Her family, including four of her siblings, was living in Greenwood, a wealthy Black neighborhood of Tulsa known as the Black Wall Street, at the time of the massacre. [1] [5] [6] Fletcher was seven years old at the time. [1] She was in bed asleep on May 31, 1921, when the massacre began; her mother woke the family and they fled.
Downtown Tulsa is an area of approximately 1.4 square miles (3.6 km 2) surrounded by an inner-dispersal loop created by Interstate 244, US 64 and US 75. [1] The area serves as Tulsa's financial and business district; it is the focus of a large initiative to draw tourism, which includes plans to capitalize on the area's historic architecture. [2]