On this week’s show, Jeff shares the story of the Tulsa Race Massacre. The Tulsa race massacre was a two-day-long white supremacist terrorist attack that took place in the Greenwood District of Tulsa, Oklahoma, between May 31 and June 1, 1921.

Mobs of white residents - some of whom were deputized and armed by city officials - attacked Black residents and systematically destroyed homes, businesses, and institutions in what was known as “Black Wall Street.” The violence left Greenwood in ruins and resulted in the deaths of hundreds of Black men, women, and children.

The Tulsa Race Massacre is widely considered one of the worst incidents of racial violence in American history and remains a critical example of how systemic racism, government complicity, and historical erasure shaped the United States.

⚠️Trigger Warning:
Racial violence, mass death, destruction of communities, white supremacist terrorism.

Sources:

• Tulsa Race Massacre: A History from Beginning to End by Hourly History
• National Endowment for the Humanities — article by Kweku Larry Crowe and Thabiti Lewis
• https://www.neh.gov/article/1921-tulsa-massacre
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_race_massacre
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Summer
• https://www.history.com/articles/black-wall-street-tulsa-visionaries
• https://www.tulsalibrary.org/black-wall-street
• https://www.democracynow.org/2016/9/22/tulsa_still_faces_historical_trauma_from
• https://cinematreasures.org/theaters/12823