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Joe Offer Seeking song re: 1921 Tulsa massacre (4) RE: Seeking song re: 1921 Tulsa massacre 22 Sep 20


For the record, Wikipedia says the Tulsa Race Massacre took place on May 31 and June 1, 1921, when mobs of white residents, many of them deputized and given weapons by city officials, attacked black residents and businesses of the Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It has been called "the single worst incident of racial violence in American history." The attack, carried out on the ground and from private aircraft, destroyed more than 35 square blocks of the district—at that time the wealthiest black community in the United States, known as "Black Wall Street".

More than 800 people were admitted to hospitals and as many as 6,000 black residents were interned in large facilities, many of them for several days. The Oklahoma Bureau of Vital Statistics officially recorded 36 dead.[19] A 2001 state commission examination of events was able to confirm 36 dead, 26 black and 10 white, based on contemporary autopsy reports, death certificates and other records. The commission gave overall estimates from 75–100 to 150–300 dead.


A DESCRIPTIVE POEM of THE TULSA RACE RIOT AND MASSACRE

https://woodyguthriecenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Tulsa-Race-Riot-Part-1.pdf

https://woodyguthriecenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Tulsa-Race-Riot-Part-2.pdfz

Black Wall Street and the Blues

Song of Greenwood - musical drama


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