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100 Years After the Tulsa Race Massacre, What Have We Learned?
May 31, 2021
Residents of Tulsa, Oklahoma look at the “Black Wall Street Memorial” while celebrating Juneteenth in the Greenwood district of Tulsa, the site of the 1921 race massacre, on June 19, 2020.
PHOTO BY SETH HERALD/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
I will never forget the violence of the white mob when we left our home. 
I still see Black men being shot, black bodies lying in the street. I still smell smoke and see fire. I still see Black businesses being burned. I still hear airplanes flying overhead. I hear the screams. Our country may forget this history, but I cannot. I will not ....

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