Following a series of events that drew reporters to Oklahoma, local legislators created a commission to investigate the massacre. Eventually the story broke in 1998 that there were potential mass graves in Greenwood. HISTORY Vault: The Night Tulsa Burned By 1921, Tulsa’s Greenwood area was one...
Investigators are back at a cemetery in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in hopes of finding victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre who are believed to be buried there. As many as 300 residents of the city may have died during one of the worst episodes of racial
100 years later, Tulsa Race Massacre survivors appeal to lawmakers: ‘I hear the screams’ [ABC News] Human remains found at possible 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre mass-grave location. [The Black Wall Street Times]
- Officials in Oklahoma on Monday announced the discovery of 17 additional adult graves at an excavation site, part of the city’s effort to find unidentified victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. The recent discovery comes after the city of Tulsa in 2018 began an investigation into ...
Monday marks 100 years since the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921. It's widely considered the worst display of racist violence in U.S. history, with some 300 black people being killed. Oklahoma State Senator Kevin Matthews joins CBSN's Tanya Rivero for a closer look at the historic day.May 27...
Subsequent generations of people, including those born and raised in Oklahoma, never heard of the Tulsa Race Massacre. Starting in the 1990s, a series of events finally began to force the shocking history back into the public eye. More to History: Tulsa Race Massacre ...
Tulsa- a major city of northeastern Oklahoma on the Arkansas river; once known as the oil capital of the world and still heavily involved in the oil and gas industries OK,Oklahoma,Sooner State- a state in south central United States
The Tulsa race massacre (also called the Tulsa race riot, the Greenwood Massacre, or the Black Wall Street Massacre) of 1921 took place on May 31 and June 1, 1921, when mobs of white residents attacked black residents and businesses of the Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It has ...
Some of the ruins from the Tulsa Race Massacre in June 1921, when white mobs set the Oklahoma city’s African American district ablaze. PHOTO/Bettmann Archive/Getty Images A renewed search for bodies in 2020found at least 12in an unmarked mass grave in a Tulsa cemetery. A team led by Ok...
Tulsa, city, Osage and Tulsa counties, seat of Tulsa county, northeastern Oklahoma, situated on the Arkansas River. It originated in 1836 as a settlement of Creek Indians who named it for their former town in Alabama. White settlement began after the arr