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Fletcher was 7 years old in 1921 when a deadly and shameful race riot broke out in Tulsa, Okla., a heinous act of violence that resulted in the deaths of hundreds of Black people over the span of ...

Six descendants of victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre cannot sue for reparations, an Oklahoma judge said, while three known survivors of the attack can move forward with the lawsuit.. Tulsa ...

The last riot of that year, according to the Archives, occurred on Nov. 30 in Lake City, Florida. A Black man alleged to have attacked a white woman was found hanging from a tree.

Reflecting on the Tulsa, Oklahoma, race riot of 1921. In this Townhall piece, Allen West (former member of Congress and a current candidate for governor of Texas); Kent MacDonald, president of ...

The 1992 Rodney King riots in Los Angeles killed 63 people—higher than the number of confirmed killed in Tulsa. Most recently, at least 19 people died in two weeks of rioting last summer in ...

As Tulsa commemorates its riots on the 100th anniversary, Knoxville also grapples with losses the city endured in 1919. The lost lives of Black Knoxvillians, ...

In Tulsa, like with many other race riots at the time, Dr. Williams says the complete destruction of Greenwood, a prosperous African American neighborhood also known as Black Wall Street, began ...

Growing up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, 67-year-old historian Scott Ellsworth remembers people treating the Tulsa Race Massacre like a shameful secret. “I would occasionally overhear stories from adults ...

When Viola Fletcher, 107, appeared before Congress in May 2021, she called for the nation to officially acknowledge the Tulsa race riot of 1921. I know that place and year well. As is the case ...

TULSA , OKLAHOMA - JUNE 18 ... The Black Wall Street Massacre happened in 1921 and was one of the worst race riots in the history of the United States where more than 35 square blocks of a ...

I first learned about the Tulsa “riot” from a Q&A item in Parade magazine in my Sunday paper sometime between 1968 and 1970.