Sidedoor
Sidedoor
Smithsonian Institution
Confronting the Past
22 minutes Posted Nov 9, 2016 at 5:01 am.
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A 1921 riot destroyed almost 40 blocks of a wealthy black neighborhood in North Tulsa, Oklahoma. No one knows how many people died, no one was ever convicted and no one really talked about it until a decade ago. This is the story of the Tulsa Race Massacre and why it's important that you know it.