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Friday, June 19, 2020

Tulsa

Guardian UK: Tulsa still haunted by memory of white supremacist massacre on eve of Trump visit
It was 99 years ago, on 31 May 1921, when a horde of white people in the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma raided the prospering black neighborhood of Greenwood, firing indiscriminately on hundreds of black civilians and torching the businesses, homes, hotels, churches and cinemas in what was then known as “Black Wall Street”.

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