A mob burned Black Wall Street to the ground in under a day

In roughly 24 hours on 31 May-1 June 1921, white rioters in Tulsa, Oklahoma, some deputized by the city, burned over 1,000 homes and businesses in Greenwood, one of America's wealthiest Black neighborhoods, killing as many as 300 people. Survivors were interned at gunpoint, and the massacre was largely erased from official histories for decades. Oklahoma didn't launch a state commission to investigate it until 1997.

— Scott Ellsworth, Death in a Promised Land: The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 — Louisiana State University Press, 1982
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