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 ...

he told the Oklahoma Commission to Study the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 in 2000. Everything that we owned was burned to the ground. What I miss most were the family photos that we had in our house.

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 ...

Nichols plans to share more about his efforts to unify Tulsans and heal the wounds caused by the Race Massacre on April ... an understanding of its impact on Tulsa and our nation,” Nichols ...

"Tulsa Race Massacre: 100 Years Later" covers the rise of Black Wall Street, the devastation wrought during the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre and the dedication of contemporary creatives to build a new ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — The next installment of the Crown Hill Speaker Series is set for Thursday evening, focusing on one of the darkest chapters in American history: The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.