The Black Wall Street
Filed Under (African American) by Deltrice on 23-12-2004
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TULSA, Oklahoma (CNN) — Beulah Smith and Kenny Booker, two elderly Oklahomans, lived through one of the worst race riots in U.S. history, a rarely mentioned 1921 Tulsa blood bath that officially took dozens of African-American lives, but more likely claimed hundreds. Perhaps even thousands.
