by Lauren Victoria Burke For New Pittsburgh Courier (NNPA)—In 1921, a White mob entered the Greenwood District and destroyed Tulsa’s Black community. During Memorial Day weekend, the centennial remembrance of the Tulsa Race Massacrewas commemorated. The massacre began when White townspeople heard a false rumors that 19-year-oldDick Rowland, a Blackshoe shiner, assaulted a Whiteelevator operator … Continued

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