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A Black man with a camera looks at the skeletons of iron beds which rise above the ashes of a burned-out block after the massacre in June 1921.

Greenwood, 1921: One of the worst race massacres in American history

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By Scott Pelley— The death of George Floyd, in the hands of Minneapolis police, came on Memorial Day. Ninety-nine years before, that same week, black Americans suffered a massacre. In the days…

May 24, 2021

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Greenwood, 1921: One of the worst race massacres in American history

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