NYTimes 3D visualization showing 1920s “Black Wall Street” before massacre

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I'm not easily chocked by the race wars in the US these days but I hadn't heard about this incident before and I can hardly believe what I'm reading. Good god. The city block pictures look like WW2 images...

https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tulsaraceriot1921-...

Why hadn’t you heard of it before?

The main reason many people haven't heard of it is that it was scrubbed (whitewashed, you could say) from recorded history for nearly a century.

>I'm not easily chocked by the race wars in the US these days but I hadn't heard about this incident before

I really am shocked by this sentence

Wait till you find out about Colfax or Wilmington or Rosewood

Do you have any good links?

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