This year marks the centennial of the Tulsa Race Massacre, which saw the destruction of a Black community in Oklahoma that, despite the brutality of state-sanctioned segregation, achieved an uncommonly strong level of commercial prosperity. The community was hailed as Black Wall Street because of the surplus level of businesses that thrived in this unlikely environment.
On May 19, the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties coordinated a hearing titled “Continuing Injustice: The Centennial of the Tulsa-Greenwood Race Massacre.” Three witnesses who lived through the Massacre testified before the subcommittee on their experiences during and after the tragedy, and their disappointment that justice still remained elusive 100 years later.
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