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Tulsa race massacre

July 2024

  • workers excavate a potential mass grave

    Oklahoma identifies first victim in Tulsa race massacre mass grave

    War veteran CL Daniel was in his 20s when he was killed in 1921, in one of deadliest acts of racist violence in US history
  • close-up of Black woman

    The Tulsa race massacre affected the ‘economic freedom’ of generations

    The reality of the court’s decision is that there isn’t a number to quantify Black pain for survivors and their lineage
  • A very old Black woman with sunken cheeks, shoulder-length gray-black hair under a black scarf with a yellow-fringed front, and a pale pink blazer sits in a wheelchair.

    Tulsa race massacre survivors condemn dismissal of reparations case and urge Biden to act

    Lessie Benningfield Randle, 109, and Viola Fletcher, 110, appeal to president after Oklahoma supreme court dismisses historic case

June 2024

  • three people sit in front with people standing behind them clapping

    Oklahoma supreme court dismisses lawsuit of Tulsa massacre survivors

    Lessie Benningfield Randle and Viola Fletcher, the last two survivors of 1921 events, sought to make city pay restitution

April 2024

  • Older Black woman with cropped white hair, in white dress with lace arms sitting on rolling chair with hands in lap, in front of blue background, looks at camera.

    ‘Our now-weary bodies have held on’: 109-year-old Tulsa massacre survivors get day in court

    Lessie Benningfield Randle and Viola Fletcher are asking the state supreme court to allow their historic lawsuit to proceed

October 2023

  • Tulsa Race survivors gather on Juneteenth in Washington D.C.<br>WASHINGTON DC, UNITED STATES - JUNE 18: Hughes Van Ellis is 102 years old, is a survivor of the Massacre and brother of Mother Viola Fletcher. He's also a WWll combat veteran. He speaks about his memoir in Washington D.C., United States on June 18, 2023. Juneteenth is a federal holiday in the US commemorating the emancipation of enslaved African Americans. (Photo by Celal Gunes/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

    Hughes Van Ellis, one of last Tulsa race massacre survivors, dies aged 102

    ‘He died waiting on justice,’ grandnephew says of Ellis, who was an outspoken activist for reparations over the 1921 massacre

July 2023

  • The Historic Vernon African Methodist Episcopal Church, left, is pictured next to Interstate 244 in Tulsa, in this 2021 picture.

    America's dirty divide
    A highway destroyed Tulsa’s thriving Black Wall Street – now there’s hope it could come back

    Decades after a chilling racist massacre, Tulsa’s Greenwood district was bulldozed for I-244 – a new plan aims to reverse its punishing effects
  • Tulsa Race Massacre survivor Viola Ford Fletcher, with her grandson Ike Howard, during an interview with the Associated Press, on 16 June, in New York.

    Judge rejects reparations for Tulsa race massacre in ‘sad miscarriage of justice’

    Civil rights lawyer laments dismissal of suit which attempted to force city to make recompense for the destruction of Black area
  • A sculpture recognizing the Tulsa race massacre at the John Hope Franklin Reconciliation Park. As many as 300 Black people were believed to have been killed by white mobs.

    Outrage as Republican says 1921 Tulsa massacre not motivated by race

    Oklahoma superintendent Ryan Walters condemned for comments on 1921 massacre in which hundreds were killed by white mobs

June 2023

  • Viola Fletcher, 109, known as Mother Fletcher, the oldest survivor of the Tulsa race massacre, poses for a portrait on Juneteenth in Washington, DC, on Monday, June 19, 2023. Fletcher recently co-published her memoir "Don't Let Them Bury My Story" with her grandson, Ike Howard.

    ‘Let the world know’: elderly survivors of the Tulsa race massacre push for justice

    Viola Ford Fletcher and her family fled a murderous white mob 102 years ago – today she’s still demanding accountability

May 2023

  • Tulsa Race Riot, 1921<br>T81P13 Tulsa Race Riot, 1921

    Hundreds were killed in the Tulsa race massacre. Are we already forgetting them?

    On the 102nd anniversary of the killings, efforts for justice in Greenwood are buried under hollow symbolism

March 2023

  • Residents of Black neighborhoods across the country are steering their communities’ redevelopment.

    Buying Black
    ‘We have to be part of the solution’: building the Black Wall Streets of tomorrow

    How activists and visionaries across the nation are designing the new hubs of Black commerce

November 2022

  • A group prays as remains from a mass grave are re-interred at Oaklawn cemetery on 30 July 2021, in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

    More coffins discovered with possible link to 1921 Tulsa race massacre

    DNA will be collected to try to identify 21 newly discovered sets of remains believed to be from victims of attack on Black Oklahomans

October 2022

  • FILE - A group prays during a small ceremony as remains from a mass grave are re-interred at Oaklawn Cemetery on July 30, 2021, in Tulsa, Okla. The mass grave was discovered while searching for victims of the Tulsa Race Massacre. Some of the 19 bodies taken from the Tulsa cemetery that are possible victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre will be exhumed again starting Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2022, to gather more DNA for possible identification. (Mike Simons/Tulsa World via AP, File)

    Tulsa race massacre: 14 bodies to be re-exhumed in effort to identify victims

    New exhumations will be followed by new search for bodies in Oklahoma cemetery linked to 1921 atrocity

December 2021

  • How white mobs firebombed homes and decimated a Black community in Illinois – video

    Racial violence in East St Louis and Houston were forgotten precursors to the Tulsa massacre and more white mob violence that would follow

July 2021

  • Tulsa Race Massacre descendant Heather Nash, left, yells at Brenda Alford, a graves oversight committee member, and forensic anthropologist Dr Phoebe Stubblefield.

    Tulsa race massacre: 19 bodies reinterred as protesters demand criminal investigation

  • Phoebe Stubblefield in her lab in Florida

    Black lives
    ‘I work with the dead. But this can help the living’: the anthropologist investigating the Tulsa race massacre

June 2021

  • Hanks’ essay focused on how he was not taught and did not know about Tulsa, in which as many as 300 people were killed in 1921 when a white mob destroyed a prosperous neighbourhood known as Black Wall Street.

    Fox News claims NPR wants to ‘cancel’ Tom Hanks over Tulsa op-ed

    Network focused on column by Eric Deggans written in response to actor’s New York Times essay on Tulsa race massacre
  • Hanks said he and his industry were part of the problem, having helped ‘shape what is history and what is forgotten’.

    Tom Hanks urges US educators to teach students about Tulsa race massacre

    Actor writes in New York Times that he ‘never read a page of any school history book’ about 1921 massacre
  • Survivors Lessie Benningfield Randle, Viola Fletchter, and Hughes Van Ellis during commemorations of the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre on June 1, 2021 in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

    America is finally acknowledging the Tulsa race massacre. The next step is reparations

    Akin Olla
    The US owes African Americans reparations for Tulsa – but also for slavery, and countless other lynchings and race massacres, and Jim Crow
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