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  1. The Tulsa race massacre, also known as the Tulsa race riot or the Black Wall Street massacre, was a two-day-long white supremacist terrorist massacre that took place between May 31 and June 1, 1921, when mobs of white residents, some of whom had been appointed as deputies and armed by city government officials, attacked black residents and ...

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    The United States and Germany sign the Treaty of Berlin ending WWI for the U.S. The First World War ends for the United States in August when the U.S. and Germany signed the Treaty of Berlin. This treaty was necessary as the United States did not ratify the 1919Treaty of Versailles due to concerns over the creation of the League of Nations. The new...

    New York Yankee pitcher Babe Ruth hit his 138th home-run during June. Ruth broke the career home-run record that had been held by Roger Connor for 23 years. Ruth would go on to extend his home-run record to a total of 714. The New York Yankees would make their first World Series appearance in 1921 after winning the American League Pennant. Despite ...

    The Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic is created. The Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Crimean ASSR) is created as a part of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Soviet Union) in October . Crimea had previously been a part of the Russian Empire and after the October Revolution of 1917 it was briefly an independe...

    One of the worst famines in modern times, grips Russia due to the failure of crops. More Information for the Russian Great Famine The Great Famine of 1921 in Russia was different from many famines that the world has witnessed in that the number of contributing circumstances surrounding the tragic event were unusual. The economic devastation caused ...

    Germany -- Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitlerbecomes Chairman of the Nazi Party in his rise to power and prominence in Germany. U.S. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt Franklin D. Roosevelt, at 39 years old, contracts Polio. U.S. -- Ellis Island Ellis Island is placed under quarantine on May 18thdue to Typhus Outbreak. U.S. -- Sleeping Sickness Sleeping Sickness clai...

  2. Racial and ethnic cleansing was committed on a large scale after the end of the American revolution during the early period of time in the history of the United States, particularly against American indians, who were forced off their lands and relocated to reservations.

  3. Warren G. Harding was inaugurated as the 29th president of the United States on March 4, 1921, and served as president until his death on August 2, 1923, 881 days later.

  4. Jun 19, 2020 · In June 1921, a white mob laid waste to Greenwood, a neighborhood in Tulsa, Oklahoma, known as Black Wall Street. Whites killed more than 300 Black people and destroyed more than 100 businesses.

  5. May 28, 2021 · But 100 years ago, on May 31, 1921, and into the next day, a white mob destroyed that district, in what experts call the single-most horrific incident of racial terrorism since slavery.

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  7. Jun 1, 2020 · More to History: Tulsa Race Massacre. In the years following World War I, segregation was the law of the land, and the Ku Klux Klan was gaining ground—not only in the Jim Crow South, but across the...

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