U.S. President Joe Biden became the first sitting American head of state to officially recognise one of the worst incidents of violent racial hate in the country’s modern history — the Tulsa Race Massacre of May-June 1921.
About Tulsa Race Massacre
- Relatively well-to-do African Americans and their businesses were targeted during widespread killings in Tulsa, Oklahoma which began on May 31 and continued until June 1.
- As many as 300 Black people were killed, more than 700 injured, and more than 1,200 homes and businesses were burned.
- In 1921, it was the affluent, predominantly African American neighbourhood of Greenwood, Tulsa, founded by descendants of slaves and having earned a reputation as the “Black Wall Street” of the U.S., that faced the carnage unleashed on May 31 and June 1.
