The Tulsa World covers the OK County Release Friday here: http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/capitol_report/turmoil-continues-in-oklahoma-republican-party-over-brogdon-staffer/article_33042569-8499-50ac-9325-e504ed12e7bd.html sharon June 6, 2015 at 1:23 pm Ok I agree with the safety of chi...
On May 31 and June 1, 1921, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, mobs of white residents brutally attacked the African American community of Greenwood, colloquially known as 'Black Wall Street,' in the deadliest racial massacre in U.S. history. Homes, businesses, and Expand Historians who have studied the e...
In Tulsa, it arrived in the spring of 1921. On May 12, 1921, a brief item in theTulsa Tribune, a white-owned daily, noted that an elderly black couple, Mr and Mrs Gilbert Irge had been fined $10 for refusing to sit in the back of a streetcar. The incident, predating Rossa P...
" Ellsworth said. "Tulsa's two daily white newspapers, they went out of their way for decades not to mention the massacre. Researchers who would try to do work on this as late as the early 1970s had their lives threatened and had their career...
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Several people were injured after a pickup truck drove through a crowd gathered on a Tulsa interstate protesting the death of George Floyd, a protest that occurred on the 99th anniversary of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre.
Tulsa race riot of 1921 Date: May 31, 1921 - June 1, 1921 Location: Oklahoma Tulsa United States See all related content News• More Than a Century After the Tulsa Race Massacre, One Question Endures: What Is Justice?•Jan. 19, 2025, 4:15 AM ET (New York Times) ...
As Americans’ rage over racial injustice boils over into a sixth day of protests, Monday also marks the 99th anniversary of one of the worst acts of racial violence the country has ever seen.