Biden to Recognize Tulsa Massacre’s Centennial in Visit to City
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President Joe Biden plans to travel to Tulsa, Oklahoma, on June 1 to commemorate the 100-year anniversary of a race massacre that wiped out one of the nation’s most prosperous Black neighborhoods.
Beginning May 31, 1921, a White mob destroyed Tulsa’s predominantly African-American Greenwood district, known as “Black Wall Street” for its abundance of Black-owned businesses. An unknown number of people were killed, with estimates ranging from 50 to 300, according to the Oklahoma Historical Society.