GIF animation: Save As/Medium; Source: Getty Images; Photo: Oklahoma Historical Society

Burning Black Wall Street: Images from the Tulsa Race Massacre

Airbombing Black people — as American as apple pie

Adrienne Gibbs
Momentum
Published in
3 min readMay 27, 2021

--

TThey dropped a bomb on us. They literally dropped a bomb on us. Racist, White Oklahomans used airplanes, guns, rope, and fire to eliminate a wealthy Black neighborhood and its families — Black Wall Street — in Tulsa, Oklahoma. That’s how survivors described it. That’s how…

--

--

Adrienne Gibbs
Momentum

Director of Content @Medium. Award-winning journalist. Featured in a Beyoncé reel. Before now? EBONY, Netflix, Sun-Times, Miami Herald, Boston Globe.