Tulsa Race Massacre Remembered 100 Years Later

The Tulsa race massacre is being remembered 100 years later.

Current Events
On Tuesday, President Joe Biden traveled to Tulsa, OK to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the deadly massacre that began when an innocent Black man was accused of raping a White woman.

The riots ended with 300 African-Americans being killed by a white mob, as well as Black-owned homes and businesses in the affluent neighborhood of Greenwood (affectionately known as ‘Black Wall Street’) being burned to the ground.

“My fellow Americans, this was not a riot — it was a massacre,” Mr. Biden told the crowd in Tulsa as the first sitting US president to visit and acknowledge the deadly site. “For much too long, the history of what took place here was told in silence. Cloaked in darkness.  But just because history is silent doesn’t mean that it did not take place,” the president added as a rebuke to the politicians who have ignored the attacks for decades and the historians who have refused to teach it.

Check out more of President Biden’s words in the video below. You may also want to check out several specials being aired on CNN and OWN dedicated to the Tulsa race riots and massacre.

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Tulsa Race Massacre 100 years later.