A century after the Tulsa Race Massacre, Black communities still seek respect and restitution

In 1921, a white mob attacked the greenwood district of Tulsa, killing hundreds of black people and destroying the neighbourhood during one of the worst chapters in America's history of racial violence. Justice has never been served. Can it still be today?

An African-American man looking at the skeletons of iron beds which rise above the ashes of a burned-out block after the Tulsa Race Massacre in 1921. Photo: Oklahoma Historical Society/Getty Images

As dusk was falling on September 16, 2016, callers began dialing 911 to report that a Lincoln Navigator had been abandoned on 36th Street North in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

A couple of callers said the SUV had been left in the centre of the road, its driver’s door left open — “like somebody jumped out”.