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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 ...
Roy Belton (1900 or 1901 – August 28, 1920) [1] was a 19-year-old white man arrested in Tulsa, Oklahoma with a female accomplice for the August 21, 1920 hijacking and shooting of a white man, local taxi driver Homer Nida.
The East St. Louis riots or East St. Louis massacres, of late May and July 1–3, 1917, were an outbreak of labor- and race-related violence by whites that caused the death of 40–250 black people and about $400,000 (over $8 million, in 2017 US dollars) in property damage. An estimated 6,000 black people were left homeless.
The Knights of Liberty was a short-lived organization. Known members in Tulsa were suspected to include former Tulsa Police Chief Ed Lucas, other Tulsa Police officers such as George Blaine and H. H. Townsend, City Attorney John Meserve, and W. Tate Brady. [2] [3] Other Knights of Liberty groups sprung up around the country shortly afterwards ...
As many as 300 Black people were killed; more than 1,200 homes, businesses, schools ... Attorneys for the last two remaining survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre asked the Oklahoma Supreme ...
The US Army has set aside the convictions of 110 Black soldiers charged after the World War I-era Houston riots, with the aim of correcting their decades-old records and characterizing their ...
Pages in category "Tulsa race massacre" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. ... This page was last edited on 21 November 2024, ...
Hughes “Uncle Redd” Van Ellis, one of the last three known survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died, according a family statement. He was 102. He was 102.