Tulsa's racist past and a fight for reparations
Race in America
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Tulsa Oklahoma is marking the 100th anniversary of a brutal race massacre. In 1921, a white mob stormed the Greenwood District, a prosperous African-American neighborhood also known as "Black Wall Street". Up to 300 people were killed. More than 1,200 homes and businesses were destroyed. Now a Pastor in the heart of Greenwood is leading a fight for reparations --- a way to acknowledge the past while looking to the future.
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