Verkkoon may 31, 1921, almost exactly 100 years ago, a group of white residents launched an attack on a thriving black neighborhood in tulsa, okla. Beginning that evening and. Verkkorufino rodrigues received a carnegie hero bronze medal for saving the lives of at least 150 coal miners during a 1912 mine fire in coal county. Verkkoin 1921, a white mob attacked the greenwood district of tulsa, killing hundreds of black people and destroying the neighborhood. Justice has never been. Verkkotulsa world staff photographer mike simons was presented with the compassionate tulsan award at the september meeting of the tulsa human rights. Verkkoon a warm night in may 1921, thousands of whites, many deputized by the local police, swarmed through the greenwood section of tulsa, oklahoma,.
