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Tulsa Massacre

Image Credit: Oklahoma Historical Society

The 1921 Tulsa Massacre was one of the deadliest massacres in U.S. history. A white mob attacked a Black neighborhood in Tulsa, killing as many as 300 African Americans. Over two days, white mobs set fire to homes, businesses, churches in Greenwood, a thriving African American business district known as “Black Wall Street.”

StoryApr 02, 1999

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