NPR Affiliate since 1985

Memories Haunted Young Tulsa Race Massacre Survivor

Your browser doesn’t support HTML5 audio

A hand-captioned photo reveals the burning Greenwood District during the Tulsa Race Massacre in the early summer of1921.
Courtesy

A fifteen-year-old survivor details an attack by a furious white mob on her Greenwood District family home, which left hundreds of black Tulsans injured and dead, and a prosperous African-American neighborhood in ruins on June 1st, 1921. The account of the Tulsa Race Massacre, being commemorated this week, is part of a two-part documentary on Ozarks African American history, produced circa 2000 by Jacqueline Froelich.

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • LinkedIn
  • Email
Jacqueline Froelich is an investigative reporter and news producer for Ozarks at Large.