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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 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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
The Justice Department (DOJ) began to review the Tulsa Race Massacre last September, at the time recognizing Viola Fletcher and Lessie Benningfield Randle, the last two survivors from the days ...
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.
The Department of Justice announced Tuesday that it will launch a review of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, more than a century after one of the worst acts of racist violence in American history.