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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 two-hour documentary Tulsa Burning: The 1921 Race Massacre will commemorate the 100th anniversary of the tragedy—one of the greatest acts of violence in American history. The Greenwood ...
The Justice Department provided new insight and chilling details about the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, describing the two-day raid that killed 300 Black residents and destroyed their businesses as a ...
NBA star Russell Westbrook is teaming up with History Channel to take an in-depth look at the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 in an all-new, two-hour documentary. The special directed by award-winning ...
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.
Otis Clark (February 13, 1903 – May 21, 2012) was one of the last survivors of the May 31, 1921, Tulsa race massacre, considered to be the worst racial massacre in American history. He later worked as a Hollywood butler for movie stars Clark Gable, Charlie Chaplin, and Joan Crawford. Clark's wife lived at the Crawford residence working as the ...
Smoke billows over Tulsa, Oklahoma, during the 1921 race massacre. In a review that concluded Friday, federal investigators outlined the scope and impact of the massacre, an attack by a White mob ...
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.