Monday marks 100 years since the Tulsa Race Massacre, which is considered one of the worst incidents of racist violence in U.S. history. The horrific event occurred in Tulsa over a 14-hour period from ...
Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. On May 31 and June 1, 1921, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, mobs of white residents brutally attacked the African American ...
A project nominally associated with Bill Cosby is seeking support in Hollywood. After being hidden away for nearly a century in the shadows of America's collective memory, the Tulsa Race Massacre of ...
It’s been just under a century since Tulsa, Okla., saw one of the most brutal and evil acts of American racism imaginable post-slavery. On May 31, 1921 hundreds of Black people were murdered and over ...
Viola Fletcher rejoined her ancestors this week. She was 111 years old. At the time of her death, Fletcher was the oldest survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. When I first learned about it in the ...
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Viola Fletcher, the oldest survivor of the Tulsa race massacre, has passed away at 111. In 1921, when the Black neighbourhood of Greenwood in Oklahoma was destroyed by white mobs, Fletcher was a kid.
President Joe Biden on Tuesday will travel to Tulsa, Oklahoma to mark the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre — an attack on a Black majority neighborhood of the city that left hundreds dead ...
OKLAHOMA CITY -- The House of Representatives passed two measures Tuesday that would serve as vehicles for the recommendations of the Tulsa Race Riot Commission. However, the question of reparations ...
A decadeslong effort to recover mass burial plots from the 1921 Tulsa race riot has been spurred forward after an investigation found that two sites in the Oklahoma city may contain unmarked mass ...
One of the last known survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre in Oklahoma has died. Viola Ford Fletcher was 111.
OKLAHOMA CITY — The Oklahoma Senate passed a measure Thursday that would require high schools in the state to teach students about the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921. Senate Bill 1381, by Sen. Judy Eason ...