Its population stemmed largely from formerly enslaved Black people and sharecroppers who relocated to the area fleeing the racial terror they experienced in other areas. 34 square blocks of Tulsa's . Two survivors of the 1921 massacre of black people in the US city of Tulsa have been granted citizenship of Ghana, according to the Justice for Greenwood Foundation. Tulsa, 1921: Reporting a Massacre by Randy Krehbiel It was the same along virtually every road leading east of Greenwood. Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. The truth. Even those who worked outside of Greenwood only spent their money in the area, reinvesting in the neighborhood, he said. By 1919, white civic leaders sought Greenwoods land for a railroad depot or other uses. Tulsa police commissioner J. M. Adkison and police chief John Gustafson were under pressure to keep law and order in the rough and tumble boomtown. A Tulsa judge is allowing a lawsuit brought by plaintiffs including three living survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre to officially move forward. Over the course of three days, dead bodies were stacked up on trucks and railroad cars and buried in secret around the city by white aggressors. DuBois had already warned the Black veterans of World War I, in the May 1919 issue of the, Details are difficult to gather, because many survivors of the massacre fled the city. Although they had survived one of the deadliest race massacres in U.S. history and their district was demolished, many residents returned. Rowland went inside the building to use the third-floor segregated restroom. I still see Black men being shot, Black bodies lying in the street. Smitherman had chastised Blacks for allowing the lynching of Claude Chandler the year before in Oklahoma City, and he urged the men in the room to protect Rowland and themselves. To catch full episodes of all The Motley Fool's free podcasts, check out our podcast center . Greenwood is just outside of North Tulsa, which is mostly Black, while South Tulsa is a mostly white area. In just a few years on or near Greenwood and Archer streets, exciting sights, sounds, and smells inspired the captions The Black Wall Street and a regular Monte Carlo.. OHS-202 - Documentation, Database, and Correspondence. W.E.B. These African-American lawyers filed claims against the city of Tulsa and against its new Fire Ordinance No. An unflinching account of America's most horrific racial massacre, The Burning is essential reading as America finally comes to terms with its racial past. He is author of Black People Are My Business: Toni Cade Bambaras Practices of Liberation (2020) and Ballers of the New School: Race and Sports in America (2010). As the Magic City grew with the steady influx of white settlers and fortune hunters, it became more like the rest of America, but with less law and order. Tulsa, 1921 : reporting a massacre / Randy . The committee accomplished this by using a variety of sources that took roughly three and a half years to compile. eng. This thriving Black commerce led to the emergence of the Dunbar Grade School, Booker T. Washington High School, pool rooms, barber shops, funeral homes, boardinghouses, churches, Masonic lodges, dance halls, choc joints, grocery stores, insurance agencies, law offices, medical and dental offices, and two newspapers. Ethelyn Gimlin (H1983.109) The final report was submitted on February 21, 2001. Great Value. From WKY-TV News, this documentary shares stories of Black Oklahomans from pre-statehood to the 1970s through rare photographs and interviews. Before emancipation, Blacks enslaved by the Indians fared better than those enslaved by whites. Tulsa, 1921: Reporting a Massacre Kindle Edition by Randy Krehbiel (Author), Karlos K. Hill (Foreword) Format: Kindle Edition 377 ratings Kindle $16.43 Read with Our Free App Audiobook $0.00 Free with your Audible trial Great on Kindle Great Experience. We didnt have much. "I could see planes circling in. Includes an All-New Afterword. This riot is covered extensively in Elliot M. Rudwick, Race Riot at East St. Louis, July 2, 1917 (Cleveland: World Publishing Co., 1966), and mentioned in the Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (New York: Bantam Books, 1968), 217-18, hereafter referred to as Report on Civil Disorders, and in Alex L. Swan, "The Politics of Identification, a Perspective of . . The elevator operator was seventeen-year-old Sarah Page, a white girl. This page includes Oklahoma Historical Society resources and collections that chronicle this devastating event in our state's history. These PDFs contain thousands of pages from the Tulsa Race Riot Commission Collection. OHS-201 - Commission Information and Research. Every Negro was afforded the same treatment, regardless of his education or advantages. So, promises broken. According to Tim Madigans. A year before the massacre, an association of medical professionals, visiting Tulsa for a conference, lined up for a panoramic photo in front of Williams Dreamland Theatre. The book contains first-person accounts of survivors, but it is said that only two dozen copies were printed. In this book, Krehbiel describes the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 and discusses the antecedents and consequences of the tragic event that left somewhere around ~300 African Americans dead (estimates unknown and widely varying) and destroyed Tulsa's prosperous "Black Wall Street" in the neighborhood of Greenwood. Special Collections and Archives. "Examines the events and players contributing to, participating in, and responding to Tulsa's 1921 race riot and massacre and the social, political and historical context in which it occurred"--. June 3, 1921June 10, 1921June 17, 1921June 24, 1921, The Morning Tulsa Daily WorldJune 1, 1921, extra editionJune 1, 1921, second extra editionJune 1, 1921, final edition, The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture, Oklahoma Heritage Preservation Grant Program, View the Tulsa Race Riot Commission Collection finding aid. On average, North Tulsans live 14 years less than South Tulsans. But on May 31 of that year,. The House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties held a hearing on the issue May 19 in which three remaining known survivors, experts and advocates called on Congress to issue reparations to the living survivors and all descendants to rectify the lasting impact of the massacre. This week marks the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre, in which a mob of whites invaded and burned to ashes the thriving African American district of Greenwood, also known as Black Wall Street. W.) founded the Greenwood District. A furious mob of thousands of white men then surged over Black homes, killing, destroying, and snatching everything from dining room furniture to piggy banks. . Little, N. Hare, and J. Hare; The Burning: Massacre, Destruction, and the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 by Tim Madigan; Events of the Tulsa Disaster by Mary E. Jones Parrish; The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story (TV movie); The Victory of Greenwood: Horace Peg Leg Taylor, September 20, 2020, by Carlos Moreno, Tulsa Star; Tulsa Race MassacreOklahoma Digital Prairie: Documents, Images and Information., SUBSCRIBE FOR HUMANITIES MAGAZINE PRINT EDITION Browse all issuesSign up for HUMANITIES Magazine newsletter, The brief success of Harlem's own record company, Scam Advisory: Recent reports indicate that individuals are posing as the NEH on email and social media. We are not asking for a handout, Ellis said through tears. We are asking for justice for a lifetime of ongoing harm.. He bought land and opened another general store north of Tulsas St. Louis and San Francisco or Frisco Railroad tracks. The Tulsa Race Massacre of May 31-June 1, 1921 was one of the deadliest attacks on an African American community in U.S. history. In North Tulsa, where Greenwood was located, there is not a hospital and there has not been one there since the massacre. This article was most recently revised and updated by, https://www.britannica.com/event/Tulsa-race-massacre-of-1921, Oklahoma Historical Society - Tulsa Race Massacre, PBS LearningMedia - A History of Trauma, Violence and Suppression - Tulsa: The Fire and the Forgotten, Tulsa race massacre of 1921 - Children's Encyclopedia (Ages 8-11), Tulsa race massacre of 1921 - Student Encyclopedia (Ages 11 and up), 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Commission. Desk Blotter Report Tulsa County Jail . I will never forget the violence of the hate mob when we left our home. Viola Ford Fletcher, 108 and . He was born in Huntsville, Alabama, on Christmas Day in 1868, and educated in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. Late in the battle as gunfire was sporadic, Jackson walked back to his home, after attending to victims, with his hands up. The first grocery store since the 1940s or 1950s is just now under construction in North Tulsa! Only in 2020, 99 years after the fact, did the Greenwood massacre become part of the Oklahoma school curriculum! Before May 31, 1921, Tulsa's black business district known as Greenwood flourished in spite of segregation. Stover traveled to Oklahoma before and during the coronavirus pandemic to interview scientists and . Phone: 918-581-8385 Follow Tim Stanley Most Popular Tulsa planning meeting disrupted by crowd alleging global conspiracies, officials say Thursday's routine public meeting to discuss the city's. Smitherman and his brother John, a deputy sheriff. It will air in May 2021, on the centennial of what's known as one of the worst incidents in American history of racial violence against Black people. Oklahomas Tulsa Race Massacre Commission reported that 100 to 300 people were killed, though the real number might be even higher. Postcards, issued in 1911, featured the hanging of African-American farm wife Laura Nelson and her castrated son from a bridge in Okemah, Oklahomaan event that later inspired the activism of Woody Guthrie. according to a report issued by Human Rights Watch. But the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre is an example of the inability to transfer wealth intergenerationally because of disruptors some of these wealthy Black men, their wealth was lost in the massacre, and it was not restored.. Thabiti Lewis is professor of English and associate vice chancellor of academic affairs at Washington State University. A Greenwood legend, Peg Leg Taylor, a veteran of the Spanish-American War, was said to have shot a dozen white men from a sniper position on Standpipe Hill. Black wealth is generally one-tenth of white wealth. Turning in the direction of the scream, he saw a young black man running from the building. The father of John Hope Franklin, he represented many victims claims in lawsuits seeking compensation for damage to property and business. This upheaval resulted in the uncontested mob outnumbering the remaining Black people by 20 to 1, the report said. Dreisen Heath, a researcher at Human Rights Watch who authored the report, said law enforcements involvement in the massacre illustrates the demands of racial justice movements a century later. African Americans had been around Oklahoma for a long time. Im going to use it, if I have to was the retort. While most mob members were not deputized, the general feeling was that they were acting under the protection of the government. Full Report: The Case for Reparations in Tulsa. Many Black Tulsans simply disappeared. By the 1880s, under the leadership of African-American attorney Edwin P. McCabe, a former clerk for the United States Treasury Department, Blacks formed Oklahoma clubs and worked to make Oklahoma an all-Black state. The Tulsa Tribune then published the front-page headline Nab Negro for Attacking Girl in Elevator. Later, Walter White, who investigated the incident for the NAACP, wondered why so many were willing to believe that Rowland was foolish enough to attack a white girl on an elevator on a holiday during a time of terror. During the course of eighteen terrible hours on May 31 and June 1, 1921, more than one thousand homes and businesses were destroyed, while credible estimates of deaths range . 1,229 pages. On the morning of May 30, 1921, a brief encounter between a black male and a white female, both teens, sparked a massacre which resulted in the deaths and injuries of hundreds of people and the destruction of a large section of Tulsa. The Tulsa massacre, the New York Times has noted, has gone from "virtually unknown to emblematic with impressive speed." Its own film critics have suggested watching all three new documentaries about the day in 1921 when the entire Black community was burned to the ground by rioting white Tulsa residents, with as many as 300 people killed. As Rowland sat in jail, back at the offices of the Black newspaper, A. J. Smitherman of the Tulsa Star led an impassioned discussion about how to protect him. By 1942, over 200 Black businesses were operating in Greenwood. They were issued identification tags and remained at the camps some for months and could not leave without their tags and permission from white supervisors, the report said. Randi Richardson reports for TODAY Digital and NBC BLK from New York. The massacre left somewhere between 30 and 300 people dead, mostly African Americans, and destroyed Tulsas prosperous Black neighbourhood of Greenwood, known as the Black Wall Street. More than 1,400 homes and businesses were burned, and nearly 10,000 people were left homeless. The white mob blocked firefighters while 1,256 homes were destroyed and another 400 were looted. We know that there were several thousand unaccounted for, Mechelle Brown, program coordinator for the Greenwood Cultural Center, told CNN during a 2016 interview. And one of the ways to harmonize that dissonance is to bring the Black folks down a peg through violence.. Late in the battle as gunfire was sporadic, Jackson walked back to his home, after attending to victims, with his hands up. A Conversation with Hannibal B. Johnson: The Tulsa Race A number of the massacres that happen that are normally coined as a riot Memphis, Chicago, those are all places where you also have documentation of police participation and being deputized, she said. As city streets throbbed with protests (and what some might call uprisings) during the summer of 2020, two science fiction dramas recalled the massacre of Tulsa, Oklahoma, which took place 100 years ago this spring. The Bloomberg Philanthropies gave Tulsa $1 million for an expansive public art project called the Greenwood Art Project. It was, then and now, among the bloodiest outbreaks of racist violence in U.S. history. The tragic events took countless homes and businesses and led to the destruction of one of the largest, most affluent and prosperous Black communities in America. He is a member of the Association for the Study of Classical African Civilizations and has conducted 1,820 African-American oral histories for The HistoryMakers. The assembly was quiet until the arrival of the armed Negros, which precipitated and was the direct cause of the entire affair, the grand jury wrote. Many people in the white mob that destroyed the Greenwood community back in 1921 were deputized by local law enforcement. Hannibal Johnson, author of Black Wall Street: From Riot to Renaissance in Tulsas Historic Greenwood District, said the area thrived as an ancillary economy that kept money within the community. Shortly after the massacre there was a brief official inquiry, but documents related to the massacre disappeared soon afterward. It all began on Memorial Day, May 31, 1921. Mary E. Jones Parrish, who rana typewriting school in Greenwood, became one of the first historians of the destruction. "The massacre was actively covered up in the white community in Tulsa for nearly a . Tulsa's Greenwood district is the site of one of the most devastating race disturbances in the history of the United States. A. C. Jackson, physician and surgeon, saw patients at an office on Greenwood avenue and Archer Street. 2156, which would prevent most of the victims from rebuilding and the insurance companies from paying for damage caused by the massacre, even as white pawnshop and hardware store owners were compensated for damages to their shops. The most significant lesson it has taught me is that the love of race is the deepest feeling rooted in our being. Encyclopaedia Britannica's editors oversee subject areas in which they have extensive knowledge, whether from years of experience gained by working on that content or via study for an advanced degree. Crowds of people watching the fires on June 1, 1921 in Tulsa, Okla., looking from Cincinnati Ave. from 2nd St. to Detroit Ave. Hughes Van Ellis, left, a Tulsa Race Massacre survivor and Viola Fletcher, second right, oldest living survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, testify before the Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Subcommittee hearing on "Continuing Injustice: The Centennial of the Tulsa-Greenwood Race Massacre" on Capitol Hill on May 19, 2021. A Mississippi native who had come to Tulsa via Rochester, Parrish has disappeared from the record. It was too late. After it was published, The Burning , like its subject matter . Notes, bibliography, and index. By Randy Krehbiel. Take me. Dont shoot him! 726 pages. Black folks were shut out from the dominant white-led economy in what I call an economic detour. Thousands were left homeless & some 300 died. Moderated by J. D. Baker, special assistant to Oklahoma City Mayor Holt, the panel included Brenda Alford, who shared her familys story of surviving the Tulsa Race Massacre; Oklahoma State University professor Dr. The written order, filed on Wednesday . When he heard of the Glenn Pool oil strike, Gurley saw opportunity and moved to Tulsa in 1906. That harm includes the city of Tulsa faulting Greenwood residents for the damage. On May 31 and June 1, 1921, a white mob set fire to the district, once known as "Black Wall Street," and killed up to 300 Black residents . The legacy of the Tulsa Race Massacre and Tulsa's path forward. Massacre and Greenwood Rising And they mustered the strength to rebuild. Our country may forget this history, but I cannot.. 1 online resource (pages cm. Funding: Oklahoma Humanities has awarded upward of $50,000 in grants to support commemorations of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, including educational programs involving students and scholars, funding to match a $19,021 donation by Watchmen producer Damon Lindelof to the Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Commission, a traveling exhibit, and a symposium. Kweku Larry Crowe is an independent researcher from Dayton, Ohio. Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 2019. The event never received widespread attention and was long noticeably absent from the history books used to teach Oklahoma schoolchildren. OHS-205 - Case Dockets #19167-19221, 1921. Several aspects of Tulsa's social structure served as causes of the Greenwood's destruction in 1921, including both demographic shifts and structural failures. True deliverance for the people of Greenwood, however, came from within, as documented in their own record of the massacre and its aftermath. The all-white jury indicted more than 85 people, who were mostly Black. Identifier: 1989-004 An artificial collection comprised of research materials from a variety of sources, including recordings, photographs. Everyone knew that he should lie low for a while. Tulsa race massacre of 1921, also called Tulsa race riot of 1921, one of the most severe incidents of racial violence in U.S. history. William Loren Katzs Black Indians and Art Burtons Black, Red, and Deadly cite an early Black presence in Oklahoma, then called Indian Territory. Randy Krehbiels Tulsa 1921: Reporting a Massacre quotes Washington Irvings 1835 eyewitness description of the Creeks, which confirms an early Black presence: quite Oriental in . Forty miles north, several dozen blacks spent the night in Bartlesville's city park, guarded by members of the American Legion. An estimated 300. You have an incident like that, then the breach in trust is huge. Thomas and Mary Hamilton (H1984.019) Copyright 2021 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. I think some readers are missing the point of this book: it's coverage *of the reporting* of the massacre, just like it says in the subtitle. Extent. Smithermans Tulsa Star promoted the idea of the New Negro, independent and assertive. The mission of this organization was to study and provide a report of the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 that would also help to give reparations for the tragic losses of those from the Greenwood District. Tulsa, 1921: Reporting a Massacre Randy Krehbiel, Karlos K. Hill (Foreword) 3.83 298 ratings53 reviews In 1921 Tulsa's Greenwood District, known then as the nation's "Black Wall Street," was one of the most prosperous African American communities in the United States. It boasted of several restaurants, theaters, clothing shops and hotels. Smith 1 Izzy Smith Justin Yates ENGL 1113 10 Nov. 2020 Rhetorical Analysis: Tulsa 1921 Randy Krehbiel's book Tulsa 1921: Reporting A Massacre (2019) published by the Uni-versity of Oklahoma Press, states that newspapers can be reliable and unreliable especially dur-ing these times since it was white versus black. Summary. It is totally true. Members of the commission gathered accounts of survivors who were still alive, documents from individuals who witnessed the massacre but had since died, and other historical evidence. Watchmen and Lovecraft Country, both on HBO, filled television screens with imagery of Tulsas Black neighborhood of GreenwoodBooker T. Washington nicknamed it Negro Wall Street, which morphed into Black Wall Streetas it was shot up, torched, and bombed from the air by white vigilantes. Rezensionen werden nicht berprft, Google sucht jedoch gezielt nach geflschten Inhalten und entfernt diese. I still hear airplanes flying overhead. A massive share of people in Greenwood were left homeless. What does this teach? Tulsa Race Massacre descendant Heather Nash, left, yells at Brenda Alford, 1921 Graves Public Oversight Committee member, and forensic anthropologist Dr. Phoebe Stubblefield as remains from a mass . I never made much money, she said. The lawyer leading the charge was Buck Colbert Franklin, the father of famed historian John Hope Franklin, the late professor emeritus at Duke University. In 1925, Booker T. Washingtons National Negro Business League held its annual meeting in Tulsas partially restored business district. The second building on the right is the Drexel Building, which was a pivotal location in the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. Tulsa police officers arrested Dick Rowland, a Black 19-year-old, May 31, 1921 for allegedly assaulting a white girl, the report said, but there was little evidential proof. Smithermans, W.E.B. Early Oklahoma newspapers reported the Tulsa Race Massacre and its aftermath; below are just a few examples of those publications, which reflect the segregated media of the period. Greenwood functioned independently, with its own school system, post office, bank, library, hospital and public transit. Vernon AME Church with a plaque commemorating the 1921 Tulsa Massacre, in Tulsa, Okla., on May 21st, 2021. White mobacrats employed extralegal tactics to gain an advantage over Blacks, Indians, and even white union organizers. Hear from survivors, descendants of victims and thought . The city's "Black Wall Street" was among the most prosperous neighborhoods in America, and a Black utopia and then it was burned to the ground. On Friday, February 27 from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., TU will host the panel discussion "Black Wall Street and the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre" to explore the success of Black Wall Street before the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. Alicia Odewale is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at The University of Tulsa. Now that Tulsa has scratched its way into popular culture, it stands as a symbol of Black tragedy and also of resurrection and resilience. Four sites were identified in the City's examination: Oaklawn Cemetery, Newblock Park, an additional area near Newblock Park, and Rolling Oaks Memorial . Scholars used the accounts of witnesses and ground-piercing radar to locate a potential mass grave just outside Tulsas Oaklawn Cemetery, suggesting the death toll may be much higher than the original records indicate. . But the words, an eyewitness account of the May 31, 1921, racial massacre that destroyed what was known as Tulsa, Oklahoma's "Black Wall Street," are searing. Later that afternoon at the Black-owned Williams Dreamland Theatre, sixteen-year-old Bill Williams watched as a neighbor jumped on stage and announced: Were not going to let this happen. The destruction of Greenwood and the assault on its citizens, beginning on May 31, 1921, was called the worst public disturbance since the Civil War. Oklahoma Historical Society Oral History Collection InterviewsThis list includes interviews from the 1980s with survivors or individuals who recall the Tulsa Race Massacre. A Negro was a Negro on that day and was forced to march with his hands up for blocks. Tape 3 (1999.069.03) - interviews with Elizabeth Cooley Chappelle, Annie Birdie Beard, Augusta Mann, George Monroe, and Eldoris McCondichie For decades after the decimation of Greenwood, a "conspiracy of silence" seemed to envelope Tulsa. On the morning of June 1, 1921, a white mob numbering in the thousands marched across the railroad tracks dividing black from white in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and obliterated a black community then celebrated as one of America's most prosperous. A woman walks past a "Black Wall Street" mural during Juneteenth celebrations in the Greenwood district of Tulsa, the site of the 1921 race massacre, on June 19, 2020. . James B. This wasnt the case for us. Omissions? Every year the Tulsa Equality Indicator report comes out and it reveals and outlines alarming disparities along racial lines from policing to the life expectancy. A disguised light-skinned African-American Tulsan overheard an ad hoc meeting of city officials plan a Greenwood invasion that night. He told his family that he had tripped over the elevator threshold and accidentally grabbed a white girl and she had screamed. Quraysh Ali Lansana, an Oklahoma native and the acting director of the Center for Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation at Oklahoma State University, Tulsa, is helping organize an exhibition about the historic Black Wall Street neighborhood, its destruction and its rebirth, for Tulsas Philbrook Museum of Art with Tri-City Collective. Several Black people were tied to cars and dragged through the streets. During the riot, a mob of white people burned the black middle-class neighborhood of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and murdered many of its residents. These days, more than 30 percent of North Tulsans live in poverty compared to 13 percent of South Tulsans, the report said. In the commentary, the HBO producers mentioned that they lifted the idea of the bi-plane bombings from this book: "The Burning: Massacre, Destruction, and the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921.". Ruth Powers (H1983.101) She is a native Tulsan, co-creator of the Tulsa Syllabus and the archaeology project "Mapping Historical Trauma in Tulsa from 1921-2021." . Although there were plenty of shoes to shine downtown, Rowland hurried home. Survivor of 1921 Tulsa race massacre 100 year-old Hughes Van Ellis (2L) sit next to sister 107 year-old Viola Ford Fetcher and family members during a service at Action Chapel International church . He is the author of Tulsas Daily World: The Story of a Newspaper and Its Town. Get the full version of this audiobook: https://audiobookscloud.com/B0851DWL7GTulsa 1921: Reporting a MassacreIn 1921, Tulsa's Greenwood District - known the. Other historical acts of racist terrormob attacks on Black communities in Detroit, Cincinnati, Dayton, and New Yorkoccurred prior to the Civil War. Bynum announced the City of Tulsa would reexamine the potential of graves from the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre as identified in the 2001 State commissioned report. There were indictments of a few white officials, including Police Chief John Gustafson, and several Black Tulsans, among them publisher A.J. In 2010 John Hope Franklin Reconciliation Park was opened in the Greenwood District to memorialize the massacre. The elevator operator was seventeen-year-old Sarah Page, a white girl. North Greenwood Ave. in Tulsa, Okla., prior to the 1921 Tulsa massacre. Relief was sent in from around the country, from the Red Cross, churches, and other philanthropies, though Tulsa city officials attempted to block it. 107-year-old survivor of Tulsa Massacre Viola Fletcher calls on U.S. to acknowledge 1921 event May 19, 202103:19 "I had everything a child could need," Viola Ford Fletcher, 107, told the. The heart of the prosperous African-American district of Greenwood after the massacre. Black residents never received any financial assistance after the massacre to rebuild. It included the willful destruction of what at the time was one of the most successful Black communities in America. Tulsa Race Riot Commission Collection, 19211923 / 19972001 The exhibition will feature 33 Oklahoma-based artists. White mob blocked firefighters while 1,256 homes were destroyed and another 400 looted. Grabbed a white girl half years to compile you have an incident like that, then the breach trust... 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