I went to a Tulsa county school when growing up. The Black Wall Street massacre was brought up in a history class briefly. Maybe a page or two in a history book. We didn’t delve into it deep at all, they just made us aware it was a thing. This was back in the early 00’s.
Went to school in the south, I didn’t know it happened at all until the HBO show watchmen, and at first I thought it was a made up event.
It’s not surprising it happened, it’s just denied or downplayed anyway. The south liked to pretend everything that happened after the civil war was them being victimized by the evil northern carpetbaggers and maybe some confused people who might have gone too far.
Same experience, I grew up in Arkansas so a neighbor to Oklahoma. You’d think something of that historical significance would be covered thoroughly. But nope. I was in third or fourth grade with Timothy McVeigh bombed a municipal building in Oklahoma and they wheeled in a TV on one of those media carts for us to watch that, though.
I went to a Tulsa county school when growing up. The Black Wall Street massacre was brought up in a history class briefly. Maybe a page or two in a history book. We didn’t delve into it deep at all, they just made us aware it was a thing. This was back in the early 00’s.
Went to school in the south, I didn’t know it happened at all until the HBO show watchmen, and at first I thought it was a made up event.
It’s not surprising it happened, it’s just denied or downplayed anyway. The south liked to pretend everything that happened after the civil war was them being victimized by the evil northern carpetbaggers and maybe some confused people who might have gone too far.
Same experience, I grew up in Arkansas so a neighbor to Oklahoma. You’d think something of that historical significance would be covered thoroughly. But nope. I was in third or fourth grade with Timothy McVeigh bombed a municipal building in Oklahoma and they wheeled in a TV on one of those media carts for us to watch that, though.
How long before Republicans don’t want anyone to teach why McVeigh did it?
Arkansas is a very dangerous place to be poor
Oklahoma public education here. I didn’t learn about the Tulsa race massacre until the blm movement kicked off a few years ago.