It was known as the Tulsa Race Riot. But in actuality, it was two days of the decimation of one of the most successful Black communities in America’s history. It was a massacre. It was the destruction of Black Wall Street. It was built on the vision of O.W. Gurley, who moved to Tulsa from Mississippi in the late 1890s on the heels of the Oklahoma Land run and purchased 40 acres earmarked for “coloreds only.” It wasn’t initially rich land. But Gu…
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