The Burning: Black Wall Street and the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921

The Burning: Black Wall Street and the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921

One of the worst acts of racial violence in American history took place in 1921, when a White mob numbering in the thousands decimated the thriving Black community of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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