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Justice For Greenwood
@Just4Greenwood
We’re fighting for justice, restoration & reparations for the survivors and descendants of Tulsa's 1921 Race Massacre. ✉️: Media@JusticeforGreenwood.org
Feb 21, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Between May 31 and June 1, 1921, white mobs destroyed more than 1,000 homes and businesses in Greenwood forcing Black families like Dr. Olivia J. Hookers' to relocate to safer territory. Between May 31 and June 1, 1921, white mobs destroyed more t They set fire to schools, churches, libraries, and movie theaters, and leveled entire city blocks. ⁠
Feb 20, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Churches were damaged and or destroyed during the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, and still serve the community 100 years later. Churches were damaged and or destroyed during the 1921 Tulsa “The church played a vital role before and after the 1921 Race Massacre. The church is an anchor in our community — and has an intricate role in our collective healing,” - @attorneydamario, the founder and executive director of Justice for Greenwood Foundation. “The church played a vital role before and after the 1921
Jun 8, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Today, it’s abundantly clear that in the 100 years that have passed since the #1921TulsaRaceMassacre, there has never been real investment in Tulsa's Black community. #ReparationsNow #JusticeForGreenwood #ReparationsNow is an urgent matter. Until we obtain reparatory justice in the form of respect, repair and restitution, economic disparities will persist.

Help us fight back against the 100 years of continued harm and TAKE ACTION!👇🏿
Apr 27, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
DID YOU KNOW: Before setting fire to the residences and businesses of Greenwood, the white mob carefully stripped and looted homes and businesses of all valuables. The heartbreaking experience of Massacre survivor Dr. Robert Bridgewater and his wife, Mattie, who lived at 507 N. Detroit paints a harrowing picture of the savagery of the white terrorists actions:
Apr 6, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
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) Wide view of Downtown Greenwood showing burnt-out, leveled b
Dec 20, 2020 • 27 tweets • 13 min read
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