Showing posts with label Tulsa massacre. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tulsa massacre. Show all posts

Thursday, June 13, 2024

Oklahoma Supreme Court Dismisses Tulsa Massacre Lawsuit - The New York Times

White men deputized by the civil officials assaulted the neighborhood from the ground and the sky. Within two days, Greenwood was no more: 35 city blocks were reduced to heaping ashes, up to 300 of its citizens were dead and thousands were left homeless. The attack erased generational wealth that had been built at a time of great racial oppression. 

No person or entity was ever held responsible, no survivors were compensated for their losses, and the story was buried. It would be decades before the massacre was talked about openly. Yvonne Kauger, one of the nine Oklahoma Supreme Court justices, noted in an earlier hearing that she did not learn about the massacre in high school...

Sunday, June 13, 2021

The Tulsa Race Massacre, 100 Years Later (The 1A)

When you ask most Americans about the Tulsa race massacre of 1921, one refrain comes up over, and over, and over again: "I've never heard of it."

In 1921, white Tulsa residents destroyed the Black neighborhood of Greenwood, OK, in two days of fire and bloodshed.

As many as 300 Black people were killed.

Monday marks the 100th anniversary of the massacre. And even after 100 years, the descendants of survivors and victims are still fighting for it to be remembered and for justice to be served.

We speak with descendants of the survivors of the massacre and talk about the impact 100 years later.

We also speak with Sec. of Agriculture Tom Vilsack and the effort to offer debt forgiveness for Black farmers.
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