The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre was a two-day attack beginning on May 31, 1921, in which a white mob attacked the Greenwood district of Tulsa, Oklahoma, a thriving Black community.
May 31, 1921
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Overview of the origin and timing of the 1921 attack on Tulsa's Greenwood neighborhood.
The attack during the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre resulted in hundreds of deaths, widespread burning and looting of homes, and the destruction of over 30 city blocks in Greenwood, a prosperous Black neighborhood often called 'Black Wall Street'.
May 31, 1921
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Scope and impact of the violence and destruction in the Greenwood neighborhood during the 1921 massacre.