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The Black Wall Street Times

Tulsa veteran Joey Crutcher honored at Oklahoma Capitol

GREENWOOD Dist. — Reverend Joey Crutcher was honored at the Oklahoma State Capitol on Monday as the state’s Veteran of the Week.

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Legal Defense Fund

We Are Not Lesser

An Urgent Call to End Over-Policing of Black Communities and Transform Public Safety in Tulsa

Tulsa, Oklahoma’s history of racial bias and violence against its Black residents reaches back to the 1921 Greenwood Massacre, which decimated the city’s thriving Black community of Greenwood and resulted in the killing of at least 300 Black Tulsans.

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Human Rights Watch

“Get on the Ground!”

Policing, Poverty, and Racial Inequality in Tulsa, Oklahoma

This report focuses on policing primarily as it impacts black communities in Tulsa, and especially poor black communities, that face policing in its most intensive forms.

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Human Rights Watch

The Case for Reparations in Tulsa, Oklahoma

In the span of about 24 hours between May 31 and June 1, 1921, a white mob descended on Greenwood, a successful black economic hub in Tulsa, Oklahoma then-known as “Black Wall Street,” and burned it to the ground.

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