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By Cherranda Smith May 27, 2021 When we talk about the turmoil Black Americans have faced since arriving to this country in slave ships, we often skip over a chapter in which gruesome violence burned entire Black communities to the ground without consequence. Whole neighborhoods, businesses, families, neighbors, churches, gone at the hands of angry white mobs. One hundred years after the devastating Tulsa Race Massacre, the nation still struggles to acknowledge its past and the violence Black Americans faced at the hands of its white citizens.  James Weldon Johnson, writer of the “Black National Anthem,” coined the term “Red Summer” to describe the summer months of 1919 because of the surge in racial violence Black Americans faced. 

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