Greenwood Rising should be a must-see center for any Oklahoman who appreciates history, including its sordid past.
Tulsa race riots began after a Black man was accused of assaulting a white woman. The case was later dismissed in court, but historians estimate that up to 300 people died during the riots.
Alvin C. Krupnick Co./AP / Library of Congress Eleven additional sets of human remains have been found in connection with the 1921 Tulsa, Oklahoma, race riots, three of which have gunshot wounds ...
A black attorney had been in Tulsa only a few months when the race riot of 1921 erupted, but he was able to convince a surging group of black residents they shouldn't invade white areas to set fires.
The 1908 riot in Springfield was part of a pattern ... razed the Greenwood district in what would become known as the Tulsa Race Massacre. The neighborhood, which African Americans had dubbed ...
the remaining survivors of the Tulsa Massacre appealed a decision to dismiss their lawsuit seeking reparations. They’ve vowed to continue their fight up to the Supreme Court.But despite an effort in ...