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99 Years Ago Today, America Was Shaken By One Of Its Deadliest Acts Of Racial Vi by Buezejames: 6:23am On Jun 02, 2020
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As Americans’ rage over racial injustice boils over into a sixth day of protests, Monday also marks the 99th anniversary of one of the worst acts of racial violence the country has ever seen.

This year’s anniversary of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre comes amid nationwide demonstrations sparked by the death of George Floyd, a 46-year-old unarmed black man who died last week at the hands of a white police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
And while Floyd’s name along with his repeated plea, “I can’t breathe,” have been exclaimed by thousands of protesters, the victims’ names of the Tulsa race massacre have been rarely spoken as the incident went unmentioned for decades in classrooms across the state.
Here’s how the massacre, also known as the Tulsa Race Riot, unfolded.
It started with an elevator encounter
In the 1920s, the Greenwood District was dubbed “Black Wall Street” as the community boasted more than 300 black-owned businesses, including two theaters, doctors, pharmacists and even a pilot who owned his own private airplane.
The success of this black community, however, caused some white people in Tulsa to become envious and angry, according to Mechelle Brown, director of programs at the Greenwood Cultural Center.
They commented, “‘How dare these negroes have a grand piano in their house, and I don’t have a piano in my house’,” Brown told CNN’s Sara Sidner in 2016.
Tulsa searches for mass graves from 1921 Tulsa race massacre
graves from 1921 Tulsa race massacre
The tension reached its tipping point after an elevator incident between a 17-year-old white girl named Sarah Page and a 19-year-old black man named Dick Rowland.
Page worked as an elevator operator and Rowland would use the elevator almost every day.


“This particular day after the elevator doors closed and Sarah Page and Dick Rowland were alone in the elevator a few moments, there was a scream,” Brown said.
After the elevator doors opened, Roland ran
and was later arrested. Page initially claimed that she was assaulted, Brown said.
Other historic accounts say Rowland tripped leaving the elevator, grabbed Page’s arm, she screamed and an onlooker went to authorities.
While Page never pressed charges, authorities did, and by the end of the day the rumor was that Page had been raped.

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Re: 99 Years Ago Today, America Was Shaken By One Of Its Deadliest Acts Of Racial Vi by Infinixs5: 7:37am On Jun 02, 2020
I tell u;Nigerians dey vex pass the black in Usa..Lol....
Zoo country that cant discuss Benue killings..

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