Editorsâ Note: July 7, 2021
Corrections that appeared in print on Wednesday, July 7, 2021.
July 6, 2021
NATIONAL
An article on Thursday about future books that feature Donald J. Trump as a subject contained a remark from the literary agent Matt Latimer. Mr. Latimerâs comment should not have been included, because he has represented the reporter on a book project. It has been removed from the digital article.
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An article on Monday about the effects of climate change on the summer camp experience misspelled the name of an island near Seattle. It is Vashon Island, not Vachon.
INTERNATIONAL
An article on Sunday about Debretsion Gebremichael, the leader of Tigray, misstated the cost of a hydroelectric dam under construction in Ethiopia. It is $4.5 billion, not $4.5 million.
Why whitewash history?
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Why whitewash history?
Talk of Tulsa, Juneteenth and Critical Race Theory made me realize my schooling was incomplete.
There are still chances to learn, like a new exhibit at the Springfield and Central Illinois African American History Museum, “Something so Horrible: The Springfield Race Riot of 1908,” when a mob of 5,000 Whites over two days destroyed Black homes and businesses, and attacked Blacks; 16 died.
The 1921 Tulsa Massacre – a White mob of about 1,000 killed 300 Blacks and wounded hundreds, and destroyed the Black business district and countless homes, displacing thousands – reminds us that racism wasn’t just in the Deep South. I’d assumed that as a Illinois pupil in the 1950s and ’60s, hearing about 1964’s Civil Rights Act and 1965’s Voting Rights Act. We read about Reconstruction and its “carpetbaggers,” but not how Congress tried to reconcile post-war North-South friction by sacrificing ex-slaves to Jim Crow discrimination. We heard about Crispu