Powerful National Geographic Live About Tulsa Black Massacre Comes To Denver

By Libby Smith, CBS Denver:

The 1921 attack on Black Wall Street in the Greenwood district of Tulsa, Oklahoma was one of the nation's worst episodes of racial violence. The nation was reminded of this atrocity on the 100th anniversary in 2021, but the effects of the massacre have played out over generations in Tulsa. University of Tulsa archaeologist, Alicia Odewale, co-founded a project to uncover details about this more recent historic event.

"A lot of the work actually isn't happening outside. The field includes archives. It includes being with our community," Odewale explained.

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