The burning : massacre, destruction, and the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921
An account of the massacre at Greenwood recreates this destruction of a prosperous African American southern community near Tulsa, Oklahoma. On the morning of June 1, 1921, a white mob numbering in the thousands marched across the railroad tracks dividing black from white Tulsa, Oklahoma, and obliterated a black community then celebrated as one of America's most prosperous. Thirty-four square blocks of Tulsa's Greenwood community, then known as t...
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