“I’ll say that I’m Black and I’m proud,” said Viola Fletcher, who was 7 years old when as many as 300 people died in Tulsa — BY, RACHEL DESANTIS Viola Fletcher is the oldest known living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre — and she recently celebrated a milestone birthday. Fletcher, who was […]
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The Ground Breaking review: indispensable history of the Tulsa Race Massacre | The Guardian
On the centenary of the attack on ‘Black Wall Street’, one of the worst racist outrages in US history, Scott Ellsworth has produced an impeccable work — BY, MICHAEL HENRY ADAMS Under the subtitle “An American City and Its Search for Justice”, Scott Ellsworth has produced a much-needed book that acts like a mirror. Though […]
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Before Making Military History, She Witnessed One Of History’s Worst Race Riots | NPR WAMU 88.5
Olivia Hooker was a 6-year-old in Tulsa, Okla., when a race riot destroyed her community as well as her own home. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] In less than 24 hours, mobs of white men destroyed more than 1,000 homes and businesses in the Greenwood District, an affluent African American neighborhood of Tulsa. It’s estimated as many as […]
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