Tulsa Massacre

Discovery Of Mass Graves Reinforces Need For Truth And Reconciliation

June 14, 2021 Equal Justice Initiative. Create! Indigenous Rights, Racism, truth and reconciliation, Tulsa Massacre

One hundred years after the Tulsa Massacre, a team of scientists has discovered the remains of 27 people believed to be murdered by the white mob that destroyed the prosperous Black neighborhood of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1921. The victims were uncovered just two weeks after the discovery of a mass grave on the grounds of the Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia, a boarding school where Indigenous children were forcibly sent until the late 1970s. The bodies of 215 children—some as young as three years old—have been uncovered so far. In both Tulsa and British Columbia, the discoveries came after decades of effort by descendants of survivors and family members of victims urging local and federal officials to acknowledge this history.

From Black Wall Street To Black Capitalism

June 7, 2021 Too Black, Hood Communist. Educate! Black Capitalism, Black Wall Street, Tulsa Massacre, US Imperialism

The Tulsa Massacre began 100 years ago on May 31st, 1921 when an angry white mob accused a 19-year-old Black man, Dick Rowland, of raping a 17-year-old white girl, Sarah Page. Flustered by the perceived “Negro Uprising” of Black men armed to defend and protect Dick Rowland outside the Tulsa courthouse, the inflamed white mob, sanctioned by the state, responded with brute terror — burning down the Black segregated neighborhood of Greenwood destroying 1,256 homes, nearly 191 Black businesses and the death of roughly 300 (likely more) people by the morning of June 1st, 1921. 100 years since these 16 hours of white barbarism occurred, suppressive forces have steadily worked to delete this tragedy from scribing its crimson pages into the books of American history.

Lost Manuscript Of Eyewitness Account Of Tulsa Race Massacre

June 19, 2020 Allison Keyes, Smithsonian Magazine. Educate! Donald Trump, Racism, Tulsa Massacre, Tulsa Race Riot

With President Trump holding a campaign rally in Tulsa, OK on June 20, 2020, we thought it would be good to republish this article on the Tulsa Massacre, often referred to as the Tulsa Race Riot. It was a white rampage in the successful black community of Rosewood, also known as Black Wall Street. No one knows how many people were killed in the massacre but “the vast majority of Tulsa's African American population had been made homeless by the event.” The white race riot began around a false charge of a white woman being raped by a back man, and conflicts between white and black people at the courthouse, with whites seeking to lynch the man. Greenwood had been considered one of the most affluent African American communities in the United States for the early part of the 20th century,

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