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Thank you. Welcome, Weirdo's. I'm Darren Marler, and this is Weird Darkness.

Here you'll find stories of the paranormal, supernatural, legends, lore, crime, conspiracy, mysterious, macabre, unsolved, and unexplained.

Coming up in this episode of Weird Darkness, Greenwood Avenue featured luxury shops, restaurants,

movie theaters, a library, pool halls and nightclubs.

Until late May and early June of 1921, a brutal race riot took place in this suburb

of Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Which is tragically ironic, watching the news and seeing what is happening all over the

USA today.

You could almost think that nothing has changed.

And while I don't normally do this, I feel it necessary to add a trigger warning on this

one, especially with the racial tensions as they are now, especially in the U.S.

I do, however, end the episode on a positive note,

three positive notes, to be precise, so I do hope you stay with me through the episode.

Now, Bolter Doors, lock your windows, turn off your lights, and come with me into the weird darkness. Before the Tulsa Race Massacre where the city's Black District of Greenwood was attacked

by a white mob, resulting in two days of bloodshed and destruction, the area had been considered

one of the most affluent African American communities in the United States for the early

part of the 20th century.

The massacre, which began on May 31, 1921, and left hundreds of black residents

dead and a thousand houses destroyed, often overshadows the history of the venerable black

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