Two years before the Tulsa massacre, the 'Red Summer' saw white mobs murder hundreds of Black ...
One hundred years ago, on May 31, 1921, an angry white mob beat and murdered at least 300 Black residents in a Tulsa, Okla., neighborhood known as “ .” The incident became known as the Tulsa Race Massacre, one of the worst acts of racial violence in U.S. history. But two years prior to the carnage in Tulsa, another violent wave of hate, which came to be known as the “Red Summer” of 1919, took hold in the country. Just a year after the end of World War I, the U.S. was coming out of a third wave of the Spanish flu epidemic. Many white ...
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