The late Ed Wheeler, a retired Oklahoma National Guard brigadier general and former Tulsa Community College history ...

On this day in 1921, the Tulsa Race Massacre, also known as the Tulsa Race Riot, began in the Greenwood district of Tulsa, ...

The Greenwood Cultural Center has certified their first descendent of the 1921 Race Massacre. The certification process was a ...

But overtures from the public could not be ignored. Formed in 2017, the then-Tulsa Race Riot Centennial Commission later decided to refer to the event as a massacre “based on community input.” ...

An extensive examination of the incident can be found in the "Tulsa Race Riot A Report by the Oklahoma Commission to Study the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921." The official report from 2000 is ...

‘Unearthing a Riot’ [The New York Times] A wall of silence surrounded the Tulsa race riot, which was instigated in part by the city itself, reported Brent Staples, by permitting and aiding the ...

It has also occurred in the U.S. The Tulsa race riot in 1921 began with the threat of a lynching, included black resistance and ended with white behavior reminiscent of a pogrom or ethnic cleansing.

Today, the Tulsa Race Riot is considered one of the worst incidents of racial violence in American history. "In all of my experience I have never witnessed such scenes as prevailed in this city ...

Devastation of Greenwood District after Race Riots, Tulsa, Oklahoma in June 1921. Universal Images Group via Getty Images "While it hasn't been easy for us to relive the pain, we are relieved to ...

The Tulsa race riot of 1921, also called the Tulsa race massacre, resulted in the death of hundreds of African American residents of the city’s Greenwood district – then a black economic hub ...

Eleven additional sets of human remains have been found in connection with the 1921 Tulsa, Oklahoma, race riots, three of which have gunshot wounds, the city said Friday. Two of the victims have ...

An Oklahoma judge threw out a lawsuit Friday that sought reparations for victims and descendants of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre ... for civil disobedience, riot, insurrection or rebellion ...