How do we work through generational trauma? How do we confront and transform histories of abuse on Black bodies?
We face our history. Head on. Here's a look back in time at the immediate aftermath of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre: THREAD
Wide view of Downtown Greenwood showing burnt-out, leveled buildings in the immediate aftermath of the Massacre, 1921. Two men stand in the middle of the street talking, one with a gun slung over his shoulder. (1/5)
Destruction in Greenwood in the wake of the Massacre, 1921. (2/5)
Billowing smoke coming from Greenwood residents’ homes. (3/5)
Greenwood Massacre Refugees standing outside of unknown building. In the wake of the Massacre, approximately 6,000 Black Tulsans were forcefully detained in internment camps guarded by armed men and forced to work for free as virtual slaves for the City of Tulsa. (4/5)
Destruction in the aftermath of the Massacre, 1921. To the left is Historic Vernon A.M.E. In the background are a few homes and buildings that did not get completely destroyed during the Massacre. (5/5)
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By May 30, 1921, Black Tulsans had built their own “Wall Street”—a vibrant, peaceful, and extraordinarily prosperous community located in the neighborhood district known as Greenwood.
the Greenwood neighborhood was home to more than 10,000 African Americans as well as hundreds of thriving Black-owned businesses and organizations. Running north out of the downtown commercial district and shaped, more or less, like an elongated jigsaw
puzzle piece, Greenwood was bordered by the Frisco railroad yards to the south, by Lansing Street and the Midland Valley tracks to the east, and by Stand Pipe and Sunset Hills to the west. Greenwood was bordered by the Frisco railroad yards to the south, by Lansing Street and the