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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/
us/tulsa-police-shooting-reaction.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

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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/
tulsa-oklahoma-white-supremacist-massacre-trump-rally

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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/
opinion/tulsa-race-riot-massacre-graves.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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/
opinion/tulsa-race-riot-massacre-graves.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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/
us/tulsa-police-shooting-reaction.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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/
tulsa-1921-massacre-trump-violence-legacy

 

 

 

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/
us/mass-graves-tulsa-race-massacre.html

 

 

 

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/
150335245/history-of-tulsas-race-riot

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/26/
opinion/tulsa-race-massacre-mass-grave.html

 

https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racial-justice/2020/09/03/
909151983/oklahoma-lawsuit-seeks-reparations-in-connection-to-1921-tulsa-massacre

 

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/07/17/
us/tulsa-massacre-mass-graves.html

 

https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racial-justice/2020/07/14/
890785747/excavation-begins-for-possible-mass-grave-from-1921-tulsa-race-massacre

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/13/
us/tulsa-massacre-graves-excavation.html

 

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=Jdps9MiVKqA - video - NYT - 22 June 2020

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/19/
opinion/tulsa-race-riot-massacre-graves.html

 

https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2020/jun/19/
why-is-trumps-comeback-rally-in-tulsa-the-site-of-a-massacre

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/18/
opinion/tulsa-race-massacre-racism.html

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/18/
trumps-visit-tulsa-sp

 

https://www.npr.org/2020/02/28/
809759133/before-making-military-history-she-witnessed-one-of-historys-worst-race-riots

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/11/
opinion/tulsa-race-massacre.html

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/05/
us/tulsa-race-massacre-mass-grave.htm

 

 

 

 

https://www.npr.org/2019/12/17/
789015343/new-research-identifies-possible-mass-graves-from1921-tulsa-race-massacre

 

 

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/23/
obituaries/olivia-hooker-dead.html

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/04/
us/mass-graves-tulsa-race-massacre.html

 

https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2018/05/31/
615546965/meet-the-last-surviving-witness-to-the-tulsa-race-riot-of-1921

 

 

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/24/
us/tulsa-police-shooting-reaction.html

 

 

 

 

http://www.npr.org/2012/04/10/
150335245/history-of-tulsas-race-riot

 

 

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/20/
us/20tulsa.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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