5/26/2021
'Dodging bullets' and coming home to 'nothing left': An illustrated history of the Tulsa Race Massacre.
Breaking Newstags: African American history, Oklahoma, Tulsa race massacre
Editor's note [Oklahoman]: The following may include first-person accounts of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre contain graphic depictions and antiquated racial terminology. We have chosen not to edit these survivor accounts to leave their stories unencumbered by interpretation or exclusion.
Illustration by Todd Pendleton, Caption Mason Callejas for The Oklahoman.
HNN Editor's Note: This is a multimedia feature with multiple illustrations and embedded audio. As it isn't reproducible here, HNN readers are very strongly encouraged to click through to The Oklahoman to experience it. That newspaper's efforts to document the events of 1921 in Tulsa as well as the ongoing effects on the city and the suppression of memory of the massacre are also worth a read.
comments powered by Disqus
News
- The Debt Ceiling Law is now a Tool of Partisan Political Power; Abolish It
- Amitai Etzioni, Theorist of Communitarianism, Dies at 94
- Kagan, Sotomayor Join SCOTUS Cons in Sticking it to Unions
- New Evidence: Rehnquist Pretty Much OK with Plessy v. Ferguson
- Ohio Unions Link Academic Freedom and the Freedom to Strike
- First Round of Obama Administration Oral Histories Focus on Political Fault Lines and Policy Tradeoffs
- The Tulsa Race Massacre was an Attack on Black People; Rebuilding Policies were an Attack on Black Wealth
- British Universities are Researching Ties to Slavery. Conservative Alumni Say "Enough"
- Martha Hodes Reconstructs Her Memory of a 1970 Hijacking
- Jeremi Suri: Texas Higher Ed Conflict "Doesn't Have to Be This Way"