Tulsa race massacre

One of the most devastating race riots in US History.

Occured in 1921. Started when a white female elevator

operator accused a black male elevator rider of assaulting her.

This also happened in a racially and politically tense atmosphere

of Northeastern Oklahoma. For example, the area was a hotbed of KKK activity at that time. Blacks gathered around the jail to prevent a lynching, whites came to perform a lynching, and a gun battle ensued.

White mobs invaded the segregated black part of town, known as Black Wall Street for its economic success, and burned it to the ground. Hundreds of people were killed, dozens of businesses,

homes, and churches were destroyed, and black people were rounded

up by the national guard and put into the baseball stadium.

Several black families, such as Ada Louis Sipuel Fisher's,

fled for more peaceful cities.

It was reported in papers as far away as the Times of London.