Solemn Remembrances of a Century-Old Race Massacre

“On the 100th anniversary of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, survivors and descendants gathered Monday at Standpipe Hill, where Black World War I veterans fought fiercely in a battle to hold off a White mob descending on the all-Black neighborhood of Greenwood,” the Washington Post reports.

“They collected soil from the steep slope to honor the victims of one of the worst episodes of racial violence in U.S. history. As many as 300 Black people were killed in the race massacre, which began on May 31, 1921, and raged into the following day, destroying 35 square blocks of one of the most prosperous Black communities in the country.”

It’s truly shocking that so many of us never learned about this in school.