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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 ...
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 history in Tulsa is already written, descendants say, but they want more. ... The 35-square-block area where the massacre occurred was known as Black Wall Street, one of the most affluent ...
The attackers, backed by government officials, burned and destroyed more than 35 square blocks of the neighborhood—at the time one of the wealthiest Black communities in the United States, colloquially known as "Black Wall Street". Black Birds in the Sky not only discusses the events of the Tulsa race massacre but also explores the thriving ...
Tulsa Race Massacre survivors Viola Fletcher and her brother, Hughes Van Ellis, listen May 31, 2021, to U.S. Rep. Shelia Jackson Lee at the closing ceremony for the Black Wall St. Legacy Festival ...
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.
On Monday, Tulsans commemorated the 100th anniversary of a two-day assault by armed white men on Tulsa's prosperous Black community of Greenwood, known around the country as Black Wall Street ...