Prologue: Like Judgment Day -- Beyond Hatred's Reach -- Lincoln's Devotee -- Diamond Dick and the KKK -- The Sheriff's Promise -- Down the Road to Apocalypse -- Be Ready at Daybreak -- The Attack on ...
Monday marks 100 years since the Tulsa Race Massacre, which is considered one of the worst incidents of racist violence in U.S. history. The horrific event occurred in Tulsa over a 14-hour period from ...
ANAC copy 39088009717067 has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Gift of S. Dillon Ripley Endowment, From his friends, 1993. "The 1921 Tulsa Race Riot was the country's bloodiest civil ...
Olivia Hooker, one of the last survivors of the 1921 Tulsa race riots and among the first black women in the U.S. Coast Guard, has died. She was 103. Hooker was 6 years old when one of the worst race ...
Wandering into Tulsa's oldest existing cemetery in May may not feel too different to visiting other graveyards around the U.S., but the fresh grass, blue sky and mid-afternoon serenity mask a ...
DALLAS (AP) — Viola Ford Fletcher, who as one of the last survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre in Oklahoma spent her later years seeking justice for the deadly attack by a white mob on the ...
Viola Fletcher rejoined her ancestors this week. She was 111 years old. At the time of her death, Fletcher was the oldest survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. When I first learned about it in the ...
We have a new clue in a nearly century-old unsolved mystery. In 1921, a white mob burned down Tulsa, Okla., African American section after a black teen apparently stepped on the foot of a white teen ...
Thelma J. "Mama Knight" Thurman Knight, one of few remaining survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot, died Wednesday in Dallas. She was 94.
Eldoris McCondichie was not like many of the people who lived through Tulsa's 1921 Race Riot. She talked freely and matter-of-factly about it to her children and grandchildren.
Viola Fletcher rejoined her ancestors this week. She was 111 years old. At the time of her death, Ms. Fletcher was the oldest survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. When I first learned about it in ...