The 1921 race riot in Tulsa began on Monday, May 30, Memorial Day, when a young black man stepped into an elevator, tripped, and either grabbed a young white girl’s arm to steady himself ...

In 1997, the Oklahoma State Legislature authorized the Oklahoma Commission to Study the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921. The commission released its final report in February 2001. In more recent years ...

On Feb. 11, 1936, a lawyer in Georgia wrote to the Veterans Administration, seeking to secure death benefits for a mother who ...

This -- Black people are not telling the truth about what happened in Tulsa. I don't know the exact story, but it wasn't a massacre. In the good old days, it was a riot, and today it was a riot.

Smitherman in the records of the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot. After discovering Smitherman's ties to Buffalo, where he settled with his family in 1925 and founded the Buffalo Star newspaper, and after ...

Many white citizens were beginning to resent their success. According to a 2005 report by the National Park Service, on May 30, 1921, a Black teenager named Dick Rowland, was accused of assulting ...

The Department of Justice (DoJ) report reveals that the massacre—in which up to 300 black residents of Tulsa, Oklahoma, were killed and 10,000 were made homeless, was not mob violence or a riot (as ...

References to transgender people were removed from a National Park Service website for the Stonewall National Monument, a park and visitor center in New York that commemorates a 1969 riot that ...

"Beautiful, bustling, and Black"—that was how author, attorney, and activist Hannibal B. Johnson described Tulsa, Oklahoma's Greenwood District in his book "Black Wall Street: From Riot to Renaissance ...