“The girl said she noticed the negro a few minutes before the attempted assault looking up and down the hallway… as if to see if there was anyone in sight but thought nothing of it at the time,” the paper reported. Though it lasted less than 18 hours, the Tulsa Race Massacre would end with the declaration of martial law, the deployment of the Oklahoma National Guard, as many as 300 people dead, 35 city blocks leveled, 191 businesses destroyed, and roughly 10,000 Black residents displaced. In June 2024, the Oklahoma Supreme Court dismissed a lawsuit from the survivors on the basis that Tulsa’s current residents had nothing to do with the massacre and that the perpetrators of that violence had all since died.
Author: Austin Harvey
Published at: 2025-11-25 22:45:03
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