COVER STORY
BROADCAST REPORTER AND DIGITAL EDITOR
n the late evening hours of May 31, 1921, an employee of a hotel in the all-Black Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa rushed over to a house on King Street. He woke the family inside, warning that Black people were being shot indiscriminately by a vicious mob of white vigilantes.
The family scrambled to leave, then walked towards the railroad tracks that segregated Tulsa, hoping the steel rails would serve as a clear avenue out of town. A white stranger walked up and warned that the mob was waiting along the tracks for Black people attempting to flee Greenwood, sending the family into even more panic in their search of a route to safety.