Unspeakable

The Tulsa Race Massacre occurred in 1921 in the highly affluent suburb of Tulsa, Greenwood. A black teen was accused by a white elevator operator of assault, and the teen was jailed. A mob came to try to lynch the boy, but the sheriff refused to release him. A white mob sought vengeance that night by burning down homes, and looting and destroying businesses in Greenwood. Up to three hundred black people may have been killed, and 8,000 black people were left homeless. No charges were ever drawn up against the white perpetrators; instead, the incident was hushed up.

This is a story that shares the beauty and prosperity of Greenwood before the massacre as well as the horror of the incident itself.