Black Wall Street Tulsa 1830 to 1921 With out a
doubt the largest massacre of non-military Americans in the history of this
country took place, and it was lead by the Ku Klux Klan. Imagine walking out
of your front door and seeing 1,500 homes being burned. Survivors think that
it was planned because during the time of the destruction entire white
families stood around the borders of their community and watched the massacre
and the looting. Searching under the heading of "riots," "Oklahoma" and
"Tulsa" in current editions of the World Book Encyclopedia , there is
conspicuously no mention whatsoever of the Tulsa race massacre of 1921, and
this omission is by no means a surprise, or a rare case. The fact is, one
would also be hard-pressed to find documentation of the incident, let alone
and accurate accounting of it, in any other "scholarly" reference or American
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