Kansas City PBS commemorates the 100th Anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre on Monday, May 31, with a collection of programming airing on Kansas City PBS and reporting from Flatland, our digital news source.
One of the worst incidents of racial violence in American history, the Tulsa Race Massacre occurred May 31-June 1, 1921, in the all-Black district of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma. A mob of white residents looted, vandalized and set fire to “Black Wall Street”—an affluent and self-sufficient community of hundreds of Black-owned businesses and homes—killing 100-300 Black residents and leaving an estimated 10,000 homeless.
With a renewed fervor surrounding civil rights conversations in the wake of the murder of George Floyd and many other Black Americans, we invite you to join us for these programs and our continuing focus on the systemic racism inherent in American culture.
