By Okla Jones ·Updated June 1, 2022
On May 31 and June 1, 1921, the Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma, was the site of one of the most horrific events in this nation’s history.
Also known as “Black Wall Street,” Greenwood was a thriving community for people of color, containing several Black-owned businesses, but was eventually burned to the ground in a matter of two days by mobs of white residents from
