Tulsa marks 100 years since massacre with somber ceremonies, demands for reparations. The Tulsa race massacre took place May 31 and June 1, 1921, when mobs of White residents, many of them deputized and given weapons by city officials, attacked Black residents and businesses of the Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Nearly 35 square blocks were destroyed and 10,000 people were left homeless. An estimated 300 people died, though it remains an inexact figure because a full accounting of mass graves continues.
