Tulsa 
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SOURCE: CNN
6/16/2020
Tulsa's Black Residents Grapple with the City's Racist History and Police Brutality Ahead of Trump's Rally
Donald Trump's announcement of a planned rally in Tulsa opened new and old wounds for the city's black residents.
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SOURCE: 60 Minutes
6/14/2020
Greenwood, 1921: One of the Worst Race Massacres in American History (video)
A story reported in December features Smithsonian historian John W. Franklin describing the long-overdue plans to unearth the truth and honor the dead of the Greenwood neighborhood, the "Black Wall Street" of Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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SOURCE: NY Times
2/11/20
Shifting Collective Memory in Tulsa
by Russell Cobb
The African-American community is working to change the narrative of the 1921 massacre.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
2/4/20
Tulsa plans to dig for suspected mass graves from a 1921 race massacre
Nearly a century after a race massacre left as many as 300 people dead, the city plans to dig for suspected mass graves that may have been used to dispose of African American bodies.
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SOURCE: NY Times
12/17/19
Tulsa Sites May Hold Mass Graves From ‘Black Wall Street’ Massacre
When white mobs obliterated a thriving black district nearly 100 years ago, as many as 300 people died. Researchers have found clues to where some of those bodies may be.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
8/27/19
Democratic candidates are finally talking about domestic terrorism. Here’s why that matters.
by Alaina E. Roberts
When Beto O’Rourke referred to the Tulsa massacre, he was correcting the record on racial violence.
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SOURCE: Smithsonian
10-9-18
Tulsa to Search for Mass Graves From the Race Massacre of 1921
During the pogrom, a white mob killed an estimated 300 black Tulsans. According to eyewitnesses, the dead are buried in unmarked mass graves in Greenwood.
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