Newspaper reports following the massacre said only 36 people died, but historians now believe as many 300 people were killed.
, a black man who died after being pinned to the ground by a white Minneapolis, Minnesota, police officer, another Midwestern metropolis is preparing to mark the grim anniversary of one of the most violent attacks on African Americans in U.S. history.began on May 21, 1921, and continued into the early morning hours of June 1.
"My first thought was 'Why is this not known?" Turner told ABC News."Why are we not sharing this with the world?'" Photograph of an African-American man with a camera looking at the skeletons of iron beds which rise above the ashes of a burned-out block after the Tulsa Race Massacre, Tulsa, Okla., 1921.An article published in the local paper led members of the black community to believe Rowland would be lynched, so a group of black residents went to the courthouse where Rowland was being held, where they were confronted by a group of white residents.
MORE: 'Because they can get away with it': Why African Americans are blamed for crimes they didn't commit: Experts In 2001, an official Race Riot Commission was organized to review the details of the event and provide recommendations on providing reparations to survivors and their descendants. The commission's nearly 200-page report outlines the events of the massacre and identifies several victims based on historical reports and firsthand accounts, including several reports of victims being buried in mass graves.Black smoke billows from fires during the race masacre of 1921, in Tulsa, Okla.
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