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The Burning of Pennsylvania Hall
Abolitionists built a monument to liberty and free speech steps from Indepdence Hall in Philadelphia. Then a mob burned it the ground.
 • Victor Luckerson
The Story of Black Wall Street #024: Assessing the Damage
The challenge of ascribing a dollar figure to Greenwood's destruction began days after the massacre and continues to this day
 • Victor Luckerson
The Story of Black Wall Street: A Conspiracy in Plain Sight
Tulsa’s white leaders orchestrated a concerted effort to force black residents out of Greenwood. The only question is whether this plan was initiated…
 • Victor Luckerson
What the White Folks Know
For a century white people with ties to the mob that burned Greenwood have been silent about their family ties to the massacre. That may be starting to…
 • Victor Luckerson
The Story of Black Wall Street: 'Get a Gun and Get Busy'
Local police and the National Guard failed to protect Greenwood from burning during the 1921 race massacre. In fact, their actions likely encouraged its…
 • Victor Luckerson
The Story of Black Wall Street: What They Lost
A partial accounting
 • Victor Luckerson
The Story of Black Wall Street: A Way With Words
Black-owned media outlets were burned to the ground in the Tulsa Race Massacre. White outlets got the chance to write--and then almost erase--the first…
 • Victor Luckerson
The Unfinished Story of Dick Rowland
For nearly a century, narratives about the massacre have revolved around a mysterious shoe shine boy and an even more elusive elevator operator.
 • Victor Luckerson
The Story of Black Wall Street #015: Summers of Our Discontent
Before Greenwood burned, large-scale racial terror attacks had already become an American pastime
 • Victor Luckerson
Judge Lynch
Oklahoma's white power structure systematically condoned lynching, from the police to the press to the mobs themselves. It was Greenwood residents who…
 • Victor Luckerson
The Story of Black Wall Street #007: The Making of a Jim Crow State
As one of the last states to join the Union, Oklahoma could have charted a new course for race relations in the 20th century. Instead, it chose Jim…
 • Victor Luckerson
Black Gold
Oil, wealth, and deception flowed in tandem on the outskirts of Tulsa
 • Victor Luckerson
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