Between May 31 and June 1, 1921, a mob of white Tulsans leveled over 35 city blocks, destroyed an estimated 191 Black businesses, and displaced roughly 10,000 Black residents from the neighborhood where they’d lived, learned, played, worked and prospered.http://apne.ws/JS9oKHG
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The Tulsa Race Massacre is just one of the starkest examples of how Black wealth has been sapped by racism and racist violence. It forced generations to start from scratch while shouldering the burdens of being Black in America,
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This week, ahead of planned commemorations, journalists across the
@AP will explore how the Tulsa Race Massacre’s economic, political and cultural impacts have echoed across generations. Read the stories here:http://apne.ws/FZOmAnsShow this thread
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pretty shameful that I and so many people didn't learn about this until Watchmen
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Myself included. And I was furious when I did.
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Because it was never addressed in the first place.
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