The Tulsa Race Massacre beats it by a few months, May 31st to June 1st. It leveled around 35 blocks of a wealthy black community, partly using firebombs dropped from planes, which was known up until that point as “Black Wall Street”. A 2001 commission put the death count somewhere between 150-300 deaths, and noted that the city aided in the massacre.
It’s also very accurately and devastatingly depicted in HBO’s “Watchmen”
Side note: Greenwood was planned by Booker T Washington. There are actually several Greenwood districts throughout the south.
Huh I wonder why we don’t learn that in school. /s
Don’t wanna give you any ideas that there were violent protests in the United States since it’s inception
Or that meaningful labor rights can only be gained successfully through violent protest.
Til. Also, what a thrilling read.
iheart.com doesn’t seem to work outside of the US. Here’s their YouTube version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWvVdjmBhHc
Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/watch?v=XWvVdjmBhHc
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source, check me out at GitHub.
Knew this bot was coming, hence why I didn’t change my link :o)
Also it’s their official channel, so if you did want to support them with Google advertising, at least it would go to the source.
Well if we’re being like that screw youtube and google still, but screw iheart even more
Thank bug
Cool bug fact is
Source?
this got a good cackle out of me
