The Greenwood section of Tulsa, Oklahoma was a wealthy African American community—until it was burned to the ground by a mob in 1921. More than 300 black people were killed. “Our community was not able to pass on generational wealth,' says Brenda Alford.
for descendants of slaves is beginning to make headway in the halls of Congress ahead of the 2020 election., whose grandparents survived the massacre but lost their businesses, went most of her life not knowing what happened in Greenwood. Before the massacre, her grandparents owned a shoe shop, as well as a record store, dance pavilion and community skating rink, Alford tells“They lost everything,” she says.
The violence broke out on the evening of May 31, 1921, when a 19-year-old African American man named Dick Rowland was accused of assaulting a white woman who was working as an elevator operator in a downtown building. Rowland was arrested, and when rumours that he had been lynched reached the African American community, violence ensued at the courthouse. Soon after, Greenwood was looted and burned by a white mob.
“The discussion about the race massacre, all of that was swept under the rug for many years. Some people were threatened with their very lives of their families if they said anything. I'm glad that in this day and time it is being recognized,” she says. “I do feel like we should move forward with [exhuming the graves] because I believe it would give some closure to those who lost family members and friends in that situation.
“Gunshots were heard to be fired and the neighbors, the people in the community were trying to warn everybody that there was a mob coming through the city. And they were shooting and going into people's homes and having them to leave their homes, and they were going in and burning their homes.
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