When Tulsa’s Greenwood went from black gold rush to burned wasteland in 16 hours

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A Shoe Shine and an Elevator Ride

When young Dick Rowland stepped into Sarah Page’s elevator on May 30, 1921, no one predicted America’s worst racial violence.

News spread that a black man had attacked a white woman. Within hours, white mobs torched 35 city blocks of Greenwood in one night…

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