Hal Singer was a toddler when a white mob descended on Tulsa’s all-black community of Greenwood and burned his home to the ground.
Now 100 and ailing after a stroke, Singer, a renowned jazz band leader and saxophonist, is among the last survivors of
the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, one of the worst episodes of racial violence in American history.
President Trump plans to hold a political rally in Tulsa on Saturday, which he delayed by a day after scheduling it on Juneteenth, the holiday that marks the end of slavery.
The timing astonished historians and outraged African Americans.
The official records of Hal Singer’s birth on Oct. 8, 1919, perished in the fires set by
white mobs during the rampage, which left as many as 300 black people dead and more than 10,000 homeless.
