BLACK WALL STREET - Tulsa, Oklahoma 1921
The date was May 31st & June 1, 1921, when "Black Wallstreet," the name fittingly given to one of the most affluent all-black communities in America, was bombed from the air and burned to the ground by mobs of envious whites. In a period spanning fewer than 12 hours, a once-thriving 36-block business district in northern Tulsa lay smoldering. A model community destroyed, and a major Africa-American economic movement resoundingly defused.
Many people in high places would like to forget that it ever happened. Searching under the heading of "riots," "Oklahoma" and "Tulsa" in current editions of the World Book Encyclopedia, there is conspicuously no mention whatsoever of the Tulsa race riot of 1921, and this omission is by no means a surprise or a rare case. The fact is, one would also be hard-pressed to find documentation of the incident, let alone an accurate accounting of it in any other "scholarly" reference or American history book.
The night's carnage left some 3,000 African Americans dead, and over 600 successful businesses lost. Among these were 21 churches, 21 restaurants, 30 grocery stores and two movie theaters, plus a hospital, a bank, a post office, libraries, schools, law offices, a half-dozen private airplanes and even a bus system. As could be expected, the impetus behind it all was the infamous Ku Klux Klan, working in consort with ranking city officials, and many other sympathizers.
This video also appeared on PBS and can also be found elsewhere on the internet.
Number 1a
The below video is a little better picture quality, but it omits a lot of the lynchings that the above video shows.
Number 1b
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_race_riot
