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| Oklahoma State University, Tulsa. Library, Special Collections and Archives |
While teaching the history of the Tulsa massacre has been mandatory in Oklahoma’s public schools since 2002, a better understanding of our culture today rests on a better understanding across all Americans of our history. The Smithsonian magazine goes deep into this in "Remembering Tulsa: A century ago in Tulsa, a murderous mob attacked the most prosperous black community in the nation"
"Much of the civic soul-searching is being led by Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum, a Republican born and raised in the city. Last year, Bynum told me that he himself hadn’t heard anything about the massacre until a night 20 years ago, at a political forum at a library in North Tulsa. “Someone brought up that there had been a race riot, and that bombs had been dropped on residents from airplanes,” Bynum told me. “I thought that was crazy. There was no way that would have happened in Tulsa and I would not have heard about that before.”"
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