What Happened In Oklahoma 100 Years Ago

The story of tulsa oklahoma s greenwood district isn t well known.
What happened in oklahoma 100 years ago. Photographs are a goldmine when it comes to remembering things past so let s take a look back at several cities across oklahoma around the turn of the 20th century. Junior williams 56 said gentrification is driven by the same forces that fueled the white mob nearly 100 years ago. What happened 100 years ago. There was economic jealously that caused them to destroy greenwood.
The exact events that took place nearly one hundred years ago in tulsa okla are still being investigated today but what is known is that the affluent black community of greenwood otherwise. Famous firsts inventions births more. Members were appointed to investigate events interview survivors hear testimony from the public and prepare a report of events. In 1921 the proud rich black community in tulsa suffered a brutal massacre up to 300 black tulsans were murdered by white residents and a thriving neighborhood of that oklahoma city.
In 1996 seventy five years after the massacre a bipartisan group in the state legislature authorized formation of the oklahoma commission to study the tulsa race riot of 1921. What was life like over 100 years ago in oklahoma.