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Historian Scott Ellsworth: Tulsa White Community Actively Covered Up 1921 Massacre

This month marks 100 years since the Tulsa Race Massacre. Scott Ellsworth, a lecturer at the University of Michigan's Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and author of "The Ground Breaking: An American City and Its Search for Justice," joins CBSN's Tanya Rivero for a closer look at what's widely considered the worst racially motivated massacre in U.S. history.

Read entire article at CBS News