Massacres & mob attacks
Tulsa Race Massacre
31 May - 1 June 1921The Greenwood District, Tulsa, OK
A white mob, deputised by the city and backed from the air, burned 35 blocks of Greenwood - the wealthiest Black district in the country - killing as many as 300 people and leaving about 10,000 homeless.
- People killed
- 36–300
- People displaced
- 10,000
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