Feb 10
They were among Greenwoods’ first residents. The Williams family played a major role in making that black business district successful. Sadly, this all changed at midnight of May 31, 1921, the white attackers begin setting fire to home and business. After the massacre, their family survived and rebuilt but was never able to reach the level of prosperity they have before the massacre.
Tulsa, Oklahoma. 1921. A wave of racial violence destroys an affluent African-American community, seen as a threat to white-dominated Americ
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