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Leonard Pitts Jr.: Where Black history is concerned, America specializes in not knowing Leonard Pitts Jr.: Where Black history is concerned, America specializes in not knowing It’s not just Tulsa. From the 2019 premiere of HBO’s “Watchmen,” which introduced many Americans to a racial atrocity they’d never heard of, to all the recent media attention CNN, the New York Times, NPR marking this week’s centennial, the Tulsa Race Massacre of May 31 to June 1, 1921 has lately been inescapable. As well it should be. It stands out for multiple reasons. There is the sheer size of it: at least 35 square blocks leveled by white mobs. There is the death toll of it: an estimated 300 African Americans the exact number will never be known killed. And there is the cussed gall of it. Barred from white community and society, Black people created a thriving community and society of their own, a “Black Wall Street” only to have white people burn it to the ground.

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