Vintage photograph of Tulsa Oklahoma burning as a result of the Tulsa race riot of the 1st June 1921, 100 years ago.
Tulsa Race Riot Survivor - One of five children, Olivia Hooker was born in Muskogee, Oklahoma, to Samuel Hooker and Anita Hooker. The family was living in the Greenwood District of Tulsa on May 31, 1921, when a group of white men carrying torches entered their home and began destroying their belongings, including her sister's piano and her father's record player. She and her siblings crouched under a table, hidden by a tablecloth, until the men were gone. "It was a horrifying thing for a little girl who's only six years old," she told Radio Diaries in 2018, "trying to remember to keep quiet, so they wouldn't know we were there." The attack was part of the Tulsa race riots of May 31–June 1, 1921, in which members of the Ku Klux Klan and other white residents of Tulsa destroyed the Greenwood District—also known as Black Wall Street for the concentration of Black-owned businesses in the area—killing as many as 300 people and leaving more than 10,000 homeless.
Size: 7015px × 4960px
Location: Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
Photo credit: © photo-fox / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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