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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 ...
Some law enforcement members participated in arson and murders that occurred during the 1921 race massacre in Tulsa, Oklahoma, according to a U.S. Department of Justice report released Friday. The ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
The Tulsa Race Massacre was a massacre that occurred May 31 and June 1, 1921, when a white mob descended on Greenwood and burned, looted, and destroyed more than 1,000 homes in the once-thriving ...
Tulsa Girl, by Shameen Anthanio-Williams, is a children's book focused on Hooker's experiences in the Tulsa Race riots. [35] In October 2019, it was announced that the fast response cutter USCGC Olivia Hooker would be named in her honor. This will be the sixty-first Sentinel-class cutter, due to be delivered to the Coast Guard after 2023. [36]