Survivors of the 1921 massacre and their descendants contemplate the meaning of reparations in today’s Tulsa, Okla.
Devastation of Greenwood District after Race Riots, Tulsa, Oklahoma in June 1921. Universal Images Group via Getty Images "While it hasn't been easy for us to relive the pain, we are relieved to ...
It’s been 103 years since a Newnan teenager died in the Tulsa race massacre. Over the past three years, droves of people from Oklahoma, Utah, Florida, and Georgia have worked to identify him.
It wasn't until 2002 that the Oklahoma Education Department added the "Tulsa Race Riot," as it called that event, to the state academic standards, but only as an example of "rising racial tensions ...
The two last survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Lessie Benningfield Randle and Viola Fletcher, released a joint statement ...
says the massacre was not a "race riot" because it was not the “result of racial feeling, or agitators.” Instead, Weiss blamed Tulsa County Sheriff W.M. McCullough for allegedly inviting Black ...
On Feb. 11, 1936, a lawyer in Georgia wrote to the Veterans Administration, seeking to secure death benefits for a mother who ...
Of interest were statements from federal agents' reports filed soon after the massacre, including about rumors of an attack that had prompted officials to prepare "for the defense of Tulsa." ...
Jan. 11 (UPI) --The Justice Department has issued a report on its exhaustive probe of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre in which it concludes that while there is no longer any "avenue of prosecution ...
More than a century ago, Greenwood, a Black neighborhood in Tulsa, Oklahoma, was destroyed in a violent spree by a white mob. It was one of the worst episodes of ...