The Day Black Wall Street Died – The Tulsa Massacre – The Story of America Part 2

The Black Dispatch, June 10, 1921

“Dr. Arthur Jackson, ex-president of the State Medical Association, was shot down by a white boy about sixteen or seventeen years old, according to eyewitnesses. He was rushing up from his basement of his home, which was in flames, with his hands in the air. Two loads from a shotgun was his return for appearance on the street. He was not killed instantaneously. His body was thrown in a truck and was dumped at the Convention hall, where after hours of suffering without medical attention he died from loss of blood.”

“We reached Tulsa about two o’clock. Airplanes were circling all over Greenwood….The heavens were lighten up as plain as day from the many fires over the Negro section.” – W. L. Brown

These are just two of the graphic details of the horrific events that took place in the Greenwood section of Tulsa, Oklahoma starting the night of May 31st and continuing into June 1, 1921. Read the events as they were written 100 years ago from The Black Dispatch, The Tulsa World, and the Chickasha Daily Express.

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