October 29, 2020 By Jessica Mendoza Multimedia reporter; Samantha Laine Perfas Story Team Leader [This is one of a series of articles/podcasts in the Christian Science Monitor.]
As Tulsa, Oklahoma, gears up to commemorate the 1921 race massacre, a new generation of Tulsans are finding ways to make the story of Black Wall Street their own. What can the country learn from their efforts?
Tulsa has big plans for the coming centennial of the 1921 race massacre that left the city’s Black community in ruins. But while Tulsa residents say these efforts are important, for members of the city’s Black community they’re just the beginning of mourning what they’ve lost while also building something new.
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If you don’t know anything about this event which destroyed the black community in Tulsa, here ae some other resources:
- Tulsa Race Massacre
- A Long-Lost Manuscript Contains a Searing Eyewitness Account of the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921
- Tulsa Race Massacre
- ‘They was killing black people’
- Timeline: The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre