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100 years ago today, the deadliest racial massacre in U.S. history began in the thriving Greenwood African American community of Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Black Wall Street in Tulsa was destroyed by a racist mob. #Tulsa100
Black Wall Street in Tulsa was destroyed by a racist mob. #Tulsa100
The imprisonment of Dick Rowland, a Black man falsely accused of assaulting a white woman, sparked the Tulsa Massacre. A lynch mob gathered to hang Rowland; Black Tulsans hurried to the courthouse to protect him. A tinderbox of racial resentment & white supremacy quickly ignited.
From May 31 to June 1 white mobs ransacked, razed, and burned over 1,000 homes, businesses, and churches in Greenwood, and murdered scores of African Americans. #Tulsa100
