Quote of the Day | Sept. 2, 2020

“It’s so much more than a tourist site — it’s a crime scene. Until Tulsa does right by Greenwood, this district will forever be a crime scene.”

-The Rev. Dr. Robert Turner of the Historic Vernon African Methodist Episcopal Church in Tulsa, the only structure in Tulsa’s Greenwood district that was not destroyed by the mobs during the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre [New York Times

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