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On the night of May 31, 1921, 7-year-old Fletcher was asleep in bed as the city around her began to burn.

An angry mob of White residents had descended on the Greenwood District of Tulsa, Oklahoma, burning and looting homes and businesses in the thriving majority-Black neighborhood, known as “Black Wall Street.” The mob’s rageful attack had been fueled by racism and false allegations that a 19-year-old Black shoe shiner, Dick Rowland, had raped a 17-year-old White elevator operator, Sarah Page. Page declined to press charges and denied that an assault occurred.

Over two days, the raging White residents destroyed 35 city blocks. Some 300 people died, more than 800 were hospitalized and about 6,000 Black residents were detained in internment camps.

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