The Last Resistance in Greenwood, Tulsa

The black community of tulsa had pulled back to defend greenwood, their neighborhood. A massive army of angry white dudes, described in media at the time as a force of citizens police and members of the national guard, numbered 15 hundred. More than one witness identified officers, usually out of uniform, among the arsenists. The last resistance in greenwood happened at the newly built mount zion baptist church. When the armed black men barricaded inside refused to leave, the police and the guardsmen burned it down. They are currently in the process of excavatinng what they think might be a mass grave and tolsaa, but we'll never know how many people died,.