“The Night Tulsa Died”: The Black Wall Street Massacre 1921 is a series of images which tells a story of an event in U.S. history that pitted white Americans against black Americans. “The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921” was a massacre confined mainly to the racially segregated Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa Oklahoma, on May 31 to June 1, 1921. Stradford is a descendant of victims in that riot.