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The 100th anniversary of an infamous massacre has been marked in Tulsa, Oklahoma, with the US President in attendance.
The incident resulted in the decimation of a dynamic Black neighbourhood, famed in America for its prosperity.
This heinous episode, witnessing the killing of an estimated 300 African Americans while upwards of 10,000 people's homes were razed to the ground, has been brushed under the carpet for decades.
Modern day Tulsans want to break the taboo.
The arrest of a young Black shoeshiner said to have assaulted a white female ignited the violence of 31st May 1921.
A lynch mob of several hundred white men surrounded the courthouse, prompting Black men to assemble to help safeguard the accused.
After gunshots caused the African Americans to take refuge in the thriving quarter of Greenwood, nicknamed 'The Black Wall Street', white trouble-makers wreaked havoc, looting and later torching it to the ground.
The Tulsa Race Massacre Commission, tasked with unearthing details of the fray, disclosed that the white mob had been armed by the police force.
The President asserted that it was time Americans confronted reality.
While a raft of measures totalling billions in federal grants were unveiled by the White House in advance of the commemorative visit to address disparities in wealth, property ownership and to kickstart African American businesses, some locals are evidently unconvinced.
Despite the 2001 proposal by the commission that financial redress should be paid to massacre victims and their surviving relatives, this step has yet to be taken.
