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Smoke rises from damaged properties after the Tulsa race massacre in Tulsa, Oklahoma in June 1921. Oklahoma Historical Society via Getty Images

May 25, 2021

More than 100 years after the Tulsa Race Massacre, lessons from my grandfather

Gregory B. Fairchild, University of Virginia

More Americans are learning about the 1921 massacre in the prosperous Black section of Tulsa known as the ‘Black Wall Street.’ For Gregory Fairchild, it is a part of his family history.

A bronze statue in Tulsa, Okla., commemorating the abuse and terrorism suffered by Black people in the city, much of it at the hands of the Ku Klux Klan. The KKK successfully overthrew a governor who tried to outlaw the organization. (Pexels)

January 7, 2021

A forgotten coup in the American heartland echoes Trump

Russell Cobb, University of Alberta

Some downplay seemingly ridiculous white nationalist groups like the Boogaloo Boys at our peril. Looking back at a successful coup engineered by the Ku Klux Klan in Oklahoma shows us why.

To some Americans, the figures on Mount Rushmore are patriotic leaders; to others, they’re colonizers. AP Photo/Stephen Groves

July 4, 2020

National parks – even Mount Rushmore – show that there’s more than one kind of patriotism

Jennifer Ladino, University of Idaho

For some viewers, President Trump’s July 3 speech at Mount Rushmore represented love of country. Others saw it very differently.

The Greenwood section of Tulsa, Okla., is seen in flames during in 1921 during one of the worst acts of anti-Black racism in American history. (Creative Commons)

June 19, 2020

Trump rally in Tulsa, a day after Juneteenth, awakens memories of 1921 racist massacre

Russell Cobb, University of Alberta

History will cast a long shadow over Donald Trump’s first campaign rally since the pandemic began.

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