US 101's video: The Destruction of Tulsa s Black Wall Street - US 101

In 1921, a thriving community in Tulsa, Oklahoma, comprised of African American residents and businesses, was destroyed. This week on US 101, we'll learn about the rise and fall of the Greenwood District in Tulsa. We'll learn about the Black entrepreneur who founded Greenwood, how a community of African Americans built the community and made it financially successful, the racial tension that was building among white residents of Tulsa, and the incident that led white Americans to burn Greenwood to the ground and kill 300 African Americans. Read more about the Tulsa Race Massacre: https://www.history.com/topics/roaring-twenties/tulsa-race-massacre https://www.vox.com/identities/2020/5/31/21276084/tulsa-race-massacre-black-wall-street-protests-george-floyd https://www.tulsaworld.com/news/local/racemassacre/timeline-the-tulsa-race-massacre/collection_1c02a7b4-86ce-11e8-b63d-c3bbb45d4a6c.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/20/us/tulsa-greenwood-massacre.html https://www.tulsa2021.org/history https://www.theatlantic.com/sponsored/hbo-2019/the-massacre-of-black-wall-street/3217/ https://www.okhistory.org/research/forms/freport.pdf Follow US 101 on social media: http://tiktok.com/@usahistory101 http://twitter.com/usahistory101 http://instagram.com/usahistory101 http://facebook.com/usahistory101