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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 first-ever U.S. Justice Department review of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre concluded Friday that while federal prosecution may have been possible a century ago there is no longer an avenue to ...
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 ...
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 ...
Mary Elizabeth Jones Parrish (1892–1972) was an African American journalist, typist and survivor of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre.Parrish kept a record of the events of the race riot and gathered eyewitness accounts from survivors.
Exhumed remains in Tulsa to be sent to Utah to be identified in DNA and genealogical testing. OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The latest search for the remains of 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre victims has ended ...
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.