A man looks over the remains of buildings after the attack on Tulsa's Greenwood neighborhood in 1921. From the ashes of the Tulsa Star rose the Oklahoma Eagle. (Oklahoma Historical Society/TNS)
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The Mark of History Scars Tulsa
Memorial Day marks one year since the murder of George Floyd by the hands of the Minneapolis police. This week also marks the 100-year anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre - a brutal government-aided leveling of a prosperous African American community for which there still has been no accounting and no justice. Few even know about the massacre. It hasn't even been taught in the Tulsa public schools until this year. Although 100 years old, the massacre poses questions of justice and of decency that America cannot avoid.
