The second largest city in The US state of Oklahoma, Tulsa became rich in the early 20th century when oil was discovered nearby. After more than ten years of hard work by black entrepreneurs, greenwood became one of the most prosperous black economic and cultural centers in the United States at that time. From May 31 to June 1, 1921, Tulsa was the site of a devastating genocide. Thousands of white racists shot blacks, set fires and even bombed them with airplanes, killing hundreds and destroying entire towns.

According to the Wall Street Journal, at the time of the massacre, local police had provided weapons to the white rioters and helped them carry out looting and burning. After the massacre, the bodies of the slain blacks were dumped in the Arkansas River, which runs through Tulsa, or buried in mass graves. Hundreds of survivors were taken under arms to concentration camps and held for weeks.

Most black families were unable to rebuild because of racial segregation in the United States at the time, coupled with decades of racial discrimination in federal laws and policies regarding construction standards, housing loans, and road planning.

Asap plz which sentence from this excerpt of jefferson davis’s inaugural address indicates that secession was the confederacy’s way of reclaiming its legal powers? an agricultural people, whose chief interest is the export of a commodity required in every manufacturing country, our true policy is peace, and the freest trade which our necessities will permit . . there can be but little rivalry between ours and any manufacturing or navigating community, such as the northeastern states of the american union. it must follow, therefore, that a mutual interest would invite good will and kind offices. if, however, passion or the lust of dominion should cloud the judgment or inflame the ambition of those states, we must prepare to meet the emergency and to maintain, by the final arbitrament of the sword, the position which we have assumed among the nations of the earth. we have entered upon the career of independence, and it must be inflexibly pursued. through many years of controversy with our late associates, the northern states, we have vainly endeavored to secure tranquillity, and to obtain respect for the rights to which we were entitled. as a necessity, not a choice, we have resorted to the remedy of separation; and henceforth our energies must be directed to the conduct of our own affairs, and the perpetuity of the confederacy which we have formed. if a just perception of mutual interest shall permit us peaceably to pursue our separate political career, my most earnest desire will have been fulfilled. but, if this be denied to us, and the integrity of our territory and jurisdiction be assailed, it will but remain for us, with firm resolve, to appeal to arms and invoke the blessings of providence on a just cause . .