Tulsa massacre
Black Wall Street
The Tulsa massacre was a 1921 attack by white mobs on the prosperous Black neighborhood of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma—sometimes called "Black Wall Street." Over two days, rioters killed hundreds of Black residents and destroyed thirty-five blocks of homes and businesses.
The event was largely suppressed from official histories for decades: The Tulsa massacre wasn't taught in Oklahoma schools until recently.
Also called the Tulsa Race Massacre or Tulsa Race Riot, though "riot" understates the one-sided violence.
- GreenwoodArboreal place name
- deep rootsLong-standing connection to place
- 1921Date between 1920-1922
- OklahomaSouth Central U.S. state
- race riotViolent intergroup ethnic conflict
racial terror · destruction · burning · burned to the ground · African American · segregation · violence · survivors · history · truth commission · neighborhood · prosperity · arson · looting · National Guard · mass grave · airplanes · firebombing
- Black HistoryMartin Luther King Jr., MLK, Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass
- civil rightsequal protection, equal rights, Civil Rights Act, right to life, Voting Rights Act
- racismracism, racial bias, white supremacy, racial discrimination, bigotry
- atrocitiesHolocaust, genocide, ethnic cleansing, mass execution, atrocities
- frontier Americapioneers, settlers, homesteaders, homesteading, sodbusters
- Jim CrowJim Crow laws, separate but equal, segregation laws, Plessy v. Ferguson, whites only
Tulsa massacreracial reconciliation
Process of healing ethnic divisions
integration · racial healing · reparations · racial justice · peace
Tulsa massacreHarlem Renaissance
Black arts explosion, 1920s
Tulsa massacrenatural disaster
Catastrophic environmental event
act of God · earthquake · hurricane · flood · tornado