Fletcher was 7 years old in 1921 when a deadly and shameful race riot broke out in Tulsa, Okla., a heinous act of violence that resulted in the deaths of hundreds of Black people over the span of ...

TULSA, Okla. — In 1997, Senator Maxine Horner, along with Reps. Don Ross and Leonard Sullivan, introduced House Joint Resolution 1035, which would create the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot Commission. As ...

The 1921 race riot in Tulsa began on Monday, May 30, Memorial Day, when a young black man stepped into an elevator, tripped, and either grabbed a young white girl’s arm to steady himself, or ...

Thelma J. "Mama Knight" Thurman Knight, one of few remaining survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot, died Wednesday in Dallas. She was 94. A service is set for 11 a.m. Tuesday at First Baptist ...

U.S. Senator James Lankford addresses a crowd during a press conference announcing the Tulsa Race Riot Centennial Commission at the Greenwood Cultural Center in Tulsa, Okla., on February 24,2017.

Ninety-nine years after the Tulsa Race Riot, amid mass graves of the victims and wounds that have remain fresh through four generations, presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg gave what his ...

Survivors of a race riot that destroyed Tulsa’s black neighborhood 83 years ago cannot seek reparations in court because of the long-expired statute of limitations, a federal judge has ruled.

Police are still investigating whether the weekend shooting spree in Tulsa, Okla., was racially motivated. A massive riot there in 1921 left about three dozen people dead. University of Michigan ...

Ninety-nine years ago, mobs of white residents attacked black residents and looted black businesses in Tulsa, Okla. In an attack that lasted from May 31 to June 1, 1921, as many as 300 people were ...

In 1921, the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, erupted in race riots that left up to 300 people dead. Homes and businesses were burned. The riot has been mostly ignored by history.

Yet the U.S. has had devastating urban riots on a somewhat regular basis since the 1960s—and many more devastating than Tulsa in terms of financial cost.

Mt. Zion Baptist Church in the Greenwood District in Tulsa, Okla., was among the buildings torched by white mobs in a devastating race riot in 1921. Greenwood Cultural Center, via Associated Press ...