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May 27, 2021 · On May 30, 1921, Dick Rowland, a 19-year-old Black shoe shiner, walked into an elevator in downtown Tulsa, Okla. What happened next is unclear, but it sparked the Tulsa race massacre, one of the...
Archaeological researchers have uncovered a possible mass grave in Oaklawn Cemetery, Tulsa’s oldest graveyard. It could finally reveal how many people were killed in the infamous 1921 attack on...
Sep 30, 2023 · The just-ended search began Sept. 5 and was the third such excavation in the search for the remains of the estimated 75 to 300 Black people killed during the 1921 massacre at the hands of a white mob that descended on Greenwood, the Black section of Tulsa.
Nov 3, 2022 · Twenty-four unmarked graves have been found in a historic Tulsa, Oklahoma, cemetery amid recently relaunched efforts to find and identify victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, city officials said Wednesday.
- Nina Golgowski
The massacre, which occurred over May 31-June 1, 1921, when white mobs invaded Tulsa’s African American Greenwood District, resulted in the fiery destruction of some 35 blocks of the formerly...
Jul 17, 2020 · The white mobs looted scores of businesses, burned over a thousand homes and killed an untold number of residents of the Greenwood district. Estimates of the death toll range from 36 to 300,...
May 28, 2021 · Greenwood, the African American Tulsa neighborhood later known as Black Wall Street, had been burned to the ground, block after block meticulously destroyed by White rioters.
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