![]() ![]() Some observers compared the “riot,” for which no one was prosecuted, with the pogroms launched against Jewish ghettoes in the Czarist Russian empire with the collusion of Czarist police and officials 1īuck Franklin was known in Oklahoma for his defense of the land claims of African Americans and Native Americans against the oil companies which seized their lands. On May 31 and Jun 1, 1921, white mobs, including some who were “deputized” by police and local officials, burned and looted hundreds of buildings, murdered many African Americans, and destroyed the Greenwood district. His father, Buck, was a prominent civil rights attorney of African American and Native American background, and a defender of African American and Native American rights.įranklin was six years old when the Tulsa race massacre occurred. universities in the second half of the twentieth century.įranklin was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1915 in a remarkable area known as “Black Wall Street”: a neighborhood of successful business and professional African Americans, with the highest per capital income of African Americans in the U.S. scholar, he advanced the study and teaching of African American history in U.S. John Hope Franklin, the author of academic and popular works of African American history over six decades, lived to be 94. ![]()
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