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White supremacist massacre Tulsa, Oklahoma 31 May, 1921
Why Trump’s Tulsa Rally Put the City’s Black Residents on Edge Video NYT News The New York Times 22 june 2020
President Trump’s rally in Tulsa, Okla., the site of one of the country’s worst episodes of racial violence in 1921, angered the city’s black residents.
In this news analysis, we explain what this moment could mean for Mr. Trump’s re-election bid.
YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jdps9MiVKqA
Mt. Zion Baptist Church was burned by white mobs during the 1921 Tulsa race riot.
Photograph: Greenwood Cultural Center, via Associated Press
Tulsa’s Prayers, and Past Scars, Softened Reaction to Police Shooting NYT Sept. 23, 2016
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/24/
Smoke rises from buildings during the 1921 race riot in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Photograph: Library Of Congress/Reuters
Tulsa still haunted by memory of white supremacist massacre on eve of Trump visit G Fri 19 Jun 2020 14.11 BST Last modified on Fri 19 Jun 2020 15.11 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/19/
Some of the ruins from the Tulsa Race Massacre in June 1921, when white vigilantes set the Oklahoma city’s African-American district ablaze.
Photograph: Bettmann Archive/Getty Images
The Burning of Black Wall Street, Revisited Nearly a century after the Tulsa Race Massacre, the search for the dead continues. NYT June 19, 2020
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/19/
A group of National Guard troops, carrying rifles with bayonets attached, escort unarmed African-American men to a detention center after the Tulsa Race Massacre in June 1921.
Photograph: Oklahoma Historical Society/Getty Images
The Burning of Black Wall Street, Revisited Nearly a century after the Tulsa Race Massacre, the search for the dead continues. NYT June 19, 2020
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/19/
Black detainees are led to Convention Hall following the race riot in Tulsa, Okla., in 1921.
Photograph: Tulsa Historical Society & Museum
Tulsa’s Prayers, and Past Scars, Softened Reaction to Police Shooting NYT Sept. 23, 2016
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/24/
31 May, 1921
Tulsa, Oklahoma
White supremacist massacre
As African American economic successes, especially business and property ownership, mounted, fear and jealousy swelled within the white community.
White corporate and railroad interests coveted the land on which the Greenwood district sat.
The Ku Klux Klan made its presence known.
The media fanned the flames of racial discord.
And, of course, systemic racism continued unchecked.
On 31 May, thousands of armed white men, some deputized by local law enforcement, invaded the Greenwood district and savaged Tulsa’s burgeoning black community.
They gunned people down and set fires throughout the district.
Planes, likely privately owned, dropped incendiary devices on the Greenwood district.
In less than 24 hours, a white mob reduced a vibrant, 35-block area to rubble and dead bodies.
Hundreds of people, as many as 300, died, with many others injured.
Most were black.
Some African Americans fled Tulsa, never to return.
Property damage, conservatively estimated, ranged from $1.5m to $2m, well over $25m in present value.
The massacre depleted black wealth to an inestimable degree.
Black prosperity slowly returned, peaking in the 1940s, but was hobbled by insurance redlining, discrimination, and the challenges that accompanied integration and “urban renewal”.
- Guardian, June 19, 2020
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/19/
A white mob rampaged through a wealthy black business district in Tulsa, Okla., in 1921, in a spate of violence that destroyed more than 1,200 homes and left up to 300 people dead.
- NYT, October 4, 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/04/
Police are still investigating (in 2012) whether the weekend shooting spree in Tulsa, Okla., was racially motivated.
A massive riot there in 1921 left about three dozen people dead. - NPR, April 10, 2012
https://www.npr.org/2012/04/10/
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