Tulsa Massacre Death Toll : 1921 Tulsa race riot massacre... - RareNewspapers.com / A white mob descended on the city's prosperous black enclave of greenwood and proceeded to burn, loot and kill until scores were dead and 35 city blocks were destroyed.
Tulsa Massacre Death Toll : 1921 Tulsa race riot massacre... - RareNewspapers.com / A white mob descended on the city's prosperous black enclave of greenwood and proceeded to burn, loot and kill until scores were dead and 35 city blocks were destroyed. . Estimates of the death toll range from dozens to 300. While a handful of the dead were identified by name in the pages of the tulsa world and the tulsa tribune right after the massacre, tulsa's white city fathers told the world that they would rebuild greenwood. When the smoke cleared in june 1921, the toll from the massacre in tulsa, oklahoma, was catastrophic — scores of lives lost, homes and businesses burned to the ground, a thriving black community gutted by a white mob. White mob attack in the atlanta massacre of 1906. White mobs destroyed black wall street in 1921. Its memory was both ignored and actively suppressed for years, despite the tragedy's consequences for subsequent generations. Pastor er
