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Greenwood is a historic freedom colony in Tulsa, Oklahoma. As one of the most prominent concentrations of African-American businesses in the United States during the early 20th century, it was popularly known as America's "Black Wall Street". It was burned to the ground in the Tulsa race massacre of 1921, in which a local white mob gathered and ...
Black Birds in the Sky recounts the story surrounding the Tulsa race massacre that took place between May 31 and June 1, 192. The attack began after Dick Rowland, a 19-year-old Black man, allegedly assaulted Sarah Page, a 17-year-old white woman, resulting in a mob of white Tulsa residents seeking justice. The attackers, backed by government ...
The Tulsa race massacre, also known as the Tulsa race riot or the Black Wall Street massacre, [12] was a two-day-long white supremacist terrorist [13] [14] massacre [15] that took place between May 31 and June 1, 1921, when mobs of white residents, some of whom had been appointed as deputies and armed by city government officials, [16] attacked black residents and destroyed homes and ...
Viola Fletcher. Viola Fletcher ( née Ford; born May 10, 1914), also known as Mother Fletcher, is the oldest known living survivor of the Tulsa race massacre and a supercentenarian. One hundred years after the massacre, she testified before Congress about the need for reparations .
Tulsa King is an American comedy and crime-drama television series created by Taylor Sheridan for the streaming platform Paramount+. The series stars Sylvester Stallone in his first leading role in a scripted television series. Stallone portrays Dwight "The General" Manfredi, a Mafia capo who has been recently released from prison and is sent ...
The Beautiful Trauma World Tour was the seventh concert tour by American singer Pink, in support of her seventh studio album, Beautiful Trauma (2017) and her eighth studio album Hurts 2B Human (2019) for the 2019 shows. The tour began in Phoenix, Arizona, on March 1, 2018, at the Talking Stick Resort Arena, and concluded on November 2, 2019, in ...
African Americans have a rich history in Oklahoma. [ 1][ 2] An estimated 7.8% of Oklahomans are Black as of the 2020 census, constituting 289,961 individuals. [ 3] African-Americans first settled in Oklahoma during the Trail of Tears. While many of these people were enslaved Africans, around 500 chose to do so in order to escape slavery. [ 4]
The Black Wall Street Times was founded in 2017 by Nehemiah Frank. [ 1] The paper is named after the historically Black Greenwood District, Tulsa, which is also known as "Black Wall Street." [ 2] According to NPR, the paper focuses on racial equity issues in Tulsa and seeks to hold public officials accountable.