The bittersweet story of Tulsa's historic Greenwood District, once considered "The Negro Wall Street," is a tale of tragedy and triumph, oppression and opportunity, despair and dignity.
Springfield's two prominent claims, one positive and one negative, to national recognition are the home of Abraham Lincoln and the infamous 1908 race riot. While Lincoln has been immortalized in buildings, holidays, and statues, there has been very l
On September 27, 1966 a riot broke out in San Francisco's Hunters Point, a black neighborhood, when a white police officer shot and killed a sixteen-year-old black as he fled the scene of a stolen car.
The riot was triggered by the death of a black youth on July 27. He had been swimming in Lake Michigan and had drifted into an area tacitly reserved for whites; he was stoned and he shortly drowned.
