iamBullivantMay 31, 2025

From 31 May through 1 June 1921 the Tulsa Massacre took place. Deputized whites killed more than 300 African Americans. They looted and burned to the ground 40 square blocks of 1,265 African American homes, including hospitals, schools, and churches, and destroyed 150 businesses.

White deputies and members of the National Guard arrested and detained 6,000 Black Tulsans who were released only upon being vouched for by a white employer or other white citizen. 1/2

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@bullivant It was also the first time that there was an aerial attack on a US city, shooting and dropping fire bombs from planes.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/long-lost-manuscript-contains-searing-eyewitness-account-tulsa-race-massacre-1921-180959251/
May 31, 2025 at 9:37amTusky
Show threadAndrew J SpauldingMay 31, 2025
@HighlandLawyer @bullivant That was a horrible event for anyone. Under this administration in America, it's possible to be repeated.
Show threadHighlandLawyerMay 31, 2025
@AJ_andrew69 @bullivant
The African slave trade was the "original sin" of the USA. Apartheid, from a refusal to come to terms with that, held back the USA in so many ways for over a century and, despite its nominal de jure removal by the 1970s, laid the seeds of the current collapse.
Show threadiamBullivantMay 31, 2025
@HighlandLawyer That's interesting, thank you for the share HL!