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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 ...
"Cities and Towns: Tulsa, Oklahoma". Encyclopedia of the Great Plains. University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 0-8032-4787-7. Carl Gregory (2007). "Tulsa". Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History & Culture. Oklahoma Historical Society and Oklahoma State University Library Electronic Publishing Center. David Goldfield, ed. (2007). "Tulsa, Oklahoma".
Zoot Suit Riots (ABC-CLIO 2014), Hispanics in Los Angeles in 1940s. Chicago Commission on Race Relations. The Negro in Chicago: A Study of Race Relations and a Race Riot (1922) on Chicago race riot of 1919; Dobrin, Adam, ed. Statistical handbook on violence in America (Oryx, 1996) hundreds of tables and charts, focused on late 20th century.
In 1997, former state Rep. Don Ross introduced legislation that created the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot Commission, an effort to examine the facts and the historical effects of the massacre that Ross and ...
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 U.S. Department of Justice has launched a review and evaluation of the 1921 race massacre in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke said. The massacre started on May 31 ...
The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 – also known as the 1921 Race Riot, the Tulsa Race War, or the Greenwood Riot – was one of the nation's worst acts of racial violence and large-scale civil disorder. From May 31 to June 1, 1921 during 16 hours of rioting by whites, more than 39 people were officially reported killed (although unofficial ...
Tulsa, Oklahoma: Tulsa race massacre: White mobs of approximately 500–1000 people, instigated by the rumor of an assault of a white woman and subsequent minor riot, armed themselves and attacked a black neighborhood in Tulsa known as the Black Wall Street.