The 1921 race riot in Tulsa began on Monday, May 30, Memorial Day, when a young black man stepped into an elevator, tripped, and either grabbed a young white girl’s arm to steady himself ...

On Feb. 11, 1936, a lawyer in Georgia wrote to the Veterans Administration, seeking to secure death benefits for a mother who ...

In 1997, the Oklahoma State Legislature authorized the Oklahoma Commission to Study the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921. The commission released its final report in February 2001. In more recent years ...

The announcement comes weeks after two organizations announced proposals for reparations or other remedies to compensate the ...

The violence took place in Tulsa, Okla., on May 31 and June 1 ... in the street,” Fletcher told lawmakers during the 2001 Race Riot Commission. “I still smell smoke and see fire.

Smitherman in the records of the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot. After discovering Smitherman's ties to Buffalo, where he settled with his family in 1925 and founded the Buffalo Star newspaper, and after ...

Johnson described Tulsa, Oklahoma’s Greenwood District ... more than 25 major race riots erupted throughout the nation in what was dubbed the Red Summer. Though Greenwood residents reconstructed ...

What Is Critical Race Theory? One hundred years ago, on May 31 and June 1 of 1921, white rioters ransacked and set ablaze a wealthy Black neighborhood in northern Tulsa, Oklahoma – a place known ...

"Beautiful, bustling, and Black"—that was how author, attorney, and activist Hannibal B. Johnson described Tulsa, Oklahoma's Greenwood District in his book "Black Wall Street: From Riot to Renaissance ...