How a 1921 Mob Destroyed Americas Richest Black Neighborhood

What happened in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1921 A mob of 10, 000 whites descended on Greenwood, the richest black neighborhood in America, after a black teenager on his way to a blacksonly bathroom stepped on the foot of a white elevator operator. The same flimsy pretext was used for a town s destruction, including the Florida Rosewood Massacre only two years later. , juneteenth, blacklivesmatter, weirdhistory