On this day in 1921, white mobs & police, attacked the black neighborhood of Greenwood, Oklahoma in one of the worst massacres in US history. The mob opened fire on black residents & set the whole community on fire, destroying 35 blocks & 1,200 homes. At least 300 ppl were killed 
The attack on Greenwood—one of the wealthiest communities in the US—was sparked by a false allegation of Dick Rowland, a black teenager, assaulting a white woman. A white mob reacted with 2 days of racial violence.
Black people were shot in the streets, and dragged behind cars with nooses tied around their necks. Their houses and businesses were looted and burned down. Multiple witnesses even described planes dropping bombs on the Greenwood during the attack.
An official report published by the city in 2001 confirmed that some of the planes were flown by police conducting reconnaissance. The others, it concluded, were probably piloted by white civilians who fired ammunition and dropped bottles of gasoline on the buildings below.
Following the attack, the state’s governor brought in the National Guard. When the soldiers arrived they arrested all the city’s black residents & sent them to internment camps and were not allowed to leave unless they had a pass signifying a white person vouched for them.
A majority of the African American community in the weeks following the event were either in hiding or trapped in internment camps, homeless, left financial destroyed, fled the city altogether, or presumed dead.
White residents even sold post cards of the massacre.
Six days after June 1, 1921 an ordinance was passed by the City to prevent African Americans from rebuilding their community at the same time bids were being made by white businessmen for their lands.
An official Tulsa investigation describes how the police participated in the riot. The city officials deputized men right after the riot broke out, who with coordination of uniformed officers, engaged in the massacre.
The report concluded that the City of Tulsa owed reparations to the survivors of the massacre and their descendants. Those reparations have never been paid.
