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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 ...
In June 2020, it was announced that Salima Koroma would direct and produce a documentary film about the Tulsa race massacre, with LeBron James who is set to serve as an executive producer under his SpringHill Entertainment banner. [1]
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 violence took place in Tulsa, Okla., on May 31 and June 1, 1921 when a White mob descended on the city’s thriving Greenwood business district, known as “Black Wall Street,” burning 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 ...
In a photo provided by the city of Tulsa, a monument to honor people found or exhumed during a probe into the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre stands in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Tuesday, November 12. (City of ...
Tulsa race massacre: 1921 May 31 and Jun 1 Tulsa: Oklahoma: 39–300 ≥ 800 wounded. One of the nation's worst incidents of racial violence. Battle of Blair Mountain: 1921 Aug 25 Logan County: West Virginia: 10–33 Private army and US Troops against union organizers. WWI gas bombs used against union organizers. Herrin massacre: 1922 Jun 21 ...
A World War I veteran is the first person identified from graves filled with more than a hundred victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre that devastated the city’s Black community, the mayor ...