I find it astonishing that my grandmother was born in Tulsa in 1901 and lived there all her life; my mother was born in Tulsa in 1922 and lived there until 2018; my sister and my brothers and I grew up in Tulsa--I was born in 1947 and finally moved away from Tulsa at the age of thirty--AND I NEVER KNEW OF THE EXISTENCE OF THIS EVENT until I was in my thirties!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr76TEMVCRY&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR1ebA9JchkEYBJH-PpwhNDf9WF_45SosNNCTA-FKYL8-UdzVQdE86GetZs
https://www.theatlantic.com/sponsored/hbo-2019/the-massacre-of-black-wall-street/3217/?fbclid=IwAR13NKJScdsv9k0xCYDQfpPucyVXCAudzgu13WySavrfTphptcz-STymVTQ
https://www.tulsaworld.com/news/tulsa-race-massacre-tulsa-newspapers-fueled-racism-and-one-story/article_420593ee-8090-5cfc-873e-d2dd26d2054e.html
https://www.history.com/topics/roaring-twenties/tulsa-race-riot?fbclid=IwAR3CSgn9t0qtuh2duBBkKTEGrFca_vj5dt2FgbrmI-BJGVXPmxZui_StPlY
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tulsa-race-riot-massacre-possible-mass-grave-found/?fbclid=IwAR35mq0mNPfiaN67CAXSkt5eBwmvM3EN4Rzftg7gAJ1cviIwWxQBUOctKu8
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My family moved to Tulsa in 1951. I went through the Tulsa schools through high school and college. I left in 1969. Like Larry, I never heard of the race riot until later. You have to wonder, were the black students in Tulsa schools taught about this? Surely they knew from the grapevine. I recently found an Oklahoma history textbook written in 1987. Don't know if it was actually used in the schools. It has half a page of white-washed coverage of the riot. Not much, but at least it's there.
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