UPDATED: 11 a.m. ET, May 31, 2023
An increasing number of Americans have been forced to come to grips with one of the country’s most racist black eyes — pun intended — amid commemorations of the centennial of the Tulsa Race Massacre in 1921 when white supremacists destroyed a thriving Black business district and killed hundreds of people.
It was widely regarded as the worst single instance of violence by white people against Black people in the history of the United States of America.
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It was 102 years ago when mobs of angry, racist white people descended on the Greenwood section of Tulsa and strategically targeted Black people along with businesses and residences they built and worked and lived in that were part of Black Wall Street, as the area had come to be known for its historic financial success and overall prestige. Historians believe that Greenwood was likely the wealthiest Black community in the country at a time when that type of financial success was disproportionately restricted to white people.
On this day, May 31st, in 1921, the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma witnessed one of the most horrific racial atrocities in American history: the Tulsa Race Massacre.
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The violence included deadly shootings and arson to 35 blocks of buildings, leaving bodies strewn in the streets and structures smoldering after being burned down to the ground.
Photos taken during the Tulsa Race Massacre’s 18 hours of violence as well as others captured in the hours, days, weeks, months and years since it took place underscore the devastation inflicted on Black Wall Street and its survivors, many of whom lost family members.
Today is the 102 year anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre in which white supremacist terrorists mass murdered 300 Black Americans.
Here’s how media reported on it—a…
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