(Tulsa, OK – July 5, 2018) – May 31st and June 1st mark the anniversary one of the worst domestic terrorist acts in modern American history. The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921, where 300 and one author estimates over 3,000 African Americans were violently killed and thousands displaced from their homes by fellow white Americans. The tragic event still receives no major coverage in the national media, while the anniversaries of the terrorist attack of the 2001 World Trade Center in New York, on 9/11, and the 1995 Oklahoma City Bombing continues to receive major media attention. It is also known as the event that lead to the destruction of the prosperous Tulsa black business district known as Black Wall Street.
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