On the recordMay 17, 2021
I include a detailed account of the Tulsa Race Massacre in the Congressional Record. Detailed Account of Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 ACCOUNT BASED ON FACTS AND DOCUMENTS REPORTED IN ``FINAL REPORT OF THE OKLAHOMA COMMISSSION TO STUDY THE TULSA RACE RIOT OF 1921'' Starting late on the evening on May 31 and continuing into the day of June 1, 1921, a White mob attacked the Greenwood district of Tulsa, Oklahoma, razing it to the ground. The attackers looted and intentionally burned an estimated 1,256 homes in Greenwood--known as America's ``Black Wall Street''--along with nearly all the district's churches, schools, and businesses. The number of persons killed in the riot may never be known, but a 2001 report by African Americans during this era lived under the ever-present threat of mass racial violence-- which often took the form of White mobs invading Black communities. It was also during this period that thousands of African Americans accused of crimes against White people--but particularly Black men accused of sexual assaulting White women--were summarily executed by White lynch mobs. Local authorities at the time often condoned or even participated in these extrajudicial killings or otherwise did little to nothing to stop them. Yet despite this national atmosphere, Tulsa's Greenwood district thrived.…
