100 years ago today
Pharyngula 2021-05-31
Summary:
A violent mob of white people descended on a community of black people in Tulsa, Oklahoma with the conscious intent of destroying them. The Tulsa police organized and aided them. The Tulsa Race Massacre had begun. Fearing that the lynching of Dick Rowland was imminent, a small, armed contingent of Black men, some of whom […]