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thefader.comSunday was the 99th anniversary of the beginning of the Tulsa Race Massacre: on May 31, 1921, white rioters took to the streets of Tulsa, Oklahoma to raze a section of the town known as "Black Wall Street," where middle-class Black families lived and worked.
Hundreds were killed, lynched on bridges, burnt in the streets, or cut down with machine guns. Thousands were left homeless.
Seventy years later, a report commissioned by the state of Oklahoma would conclude that city officials had deputized many of the white men before they brought death to Tulsa's Black population, making them de facto agents of the state.
The anniversary has taken on new significance as peaceful protests continue around the world. These marches were sparked by the
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