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100 years ago today, a thriving Black community in Tulsa was destroyed by a white mob driven by hate and anger. I never learned about this in school but it is a history we must confront. Now the lessons of the Tulsa Race Massacre are more important than ever. THREAD. #Tulsa100 
PROSPERITY: The Greenwood area of Tulsa was a thriving Black community and often referred to as Black Wall Street. The residents succeeded against the odds, but their success was a model and a symbol for what could be. 2/14
SEPARATED: Business owners and working families prospered even though they were segregated from the rest of the community. Every day was a reminder that they were an ‘other’ - even those well-off in Greenwood couldn’t frequent businesses in White Tulsa. 3/14
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
On May 31 and June 1, 1921, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, mobs of white residents brutally attacked, ransacked, and razed the thriving African American community of Greenwood, colloquially known as "Black Wall Street." It was the deadliest racial massacre in U.S. history. #Tulsa100
Over the next three weeks, we will commemorate and contextualize the tragedy of the Tulsa Race Massacre and its continuing reverberations. bit.ly/3hDu3No #Tulsa100
We will also celebrate and honor the resilience of an African American community by sharing stories of Greenwood residents, survivors, and people who continue to fight for truth, repair, reconciliation and justice today. #Tulsa100
