Clarence Page: Let’s not forget: Chicago had a ‘Black Wall Street’ too
by Clarence Page, Tribune Content Agency
Jun 01, 2021
2 minutes
Of the many lessons to be considered 100 years after a breathtakingly brutal race riot tore through Tulsa’s Greenwood district, one of the most painful is this: Tulsa wasn’t alone.
The two-day rampage came two years after the “Red Summer” of 1919 in which race riots and white supremacist terrorism tore through more than three dozen cities, including Chicago.
President Joe Biden and others paid tribute to
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