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On Feb. 11, 1936, a lawyer in Georgia wrote to the Veterans Administration, seeking to secure death benefits for a mother who ...
In 1997, the Oklahoma State Legislature authorized the Oklahoma Commission to Study the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921. The commission released its final report in February 2001. In more recent years ...
The violence took place in Tulsa, Okla., on May 31 and June 1 ... in the street,” Fletcher told lawmakers during the 2001 Race Riot Commission. “I still smell smoke and see fire.
It's not as dramatized as the race hustlers ... about what happened in Tulsa. I don't know the exact story, but it wasn't a massacre. In the good old days, it was a riot, and today it was a ...
"The Greenwood Ave Project" documentary revisits the 1921 Tulsa massacre, illuminating the past and powering the future of ...
What Is Critical Race Theory? One hundred years ago, on May 31 and June 1 of 1921, white rioters ransacked and set ablaze a wealthy Black neighborhood in northern Tulsa, Oklahoma – a place known ...
And warning: spoilers ahead! The show opens in the middle of the 1921 Tulsa race riot, a real event in which the white residents attacked black residents and businesses. The riot destroyed more ...
Tim Madigan is the author of The Burning: The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921. When the U.S. Army massacred a Lakota village at Blue Water, dozens of plundered artifacts ended up in the Smithsonian.