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Case #173: The Tulsa Race Massacre; Destruction of Black Wall Street
Season 1
Episode 173
Published 4 years, 6 months ago
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Case #173: The Tulsa Race Massacre; Destruction of Black Wall Street
Classification: [History]
The year was 1921. In Tulsa, Oklahoma, 10,000 descendants of black slaves worked and lived in a thriving city within a city, The Greenwood District. Then over a single June day, a white mob burned nearly every structure in Greenwood to the ground, killing hundreds of innocents in the process. Today, on Ovpod, the story of one of the most severe incidents of racial violence in American History.
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