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The Sites of Black Massacres in America... It all seemed to happen from Tulsa heading east from 1866 to 1943 0n this map...
Here is a map... https://decolonialatlas.wordpress.com/2020/06/20/black-massacres-in-the-u-s/
Massacres are the violence inherent to white supremacy unleashed in full force. Taking untold scores of Black lives, these massacres have largely been erased from the public consciousness.
– In 1868, around 200 recently emancipated African Americans were killed by a white mob in Opelousas, Louisiana for registering voters.
– In 1919, as many as 237 Black farmers in Elaine, Arkansas were lynched for organizing their labor to negotiate better conditions.
– Tulsa’s Greenwood neighborhood was once the wealthiest Black community in the country, earning it the moniker of “Black Wall Street.” In 1921, it was bombed, burning it to the ground and leaving up to 300 dead.
– In 2015, a lone white supremacist in Charleston entered one of the country’s oldest Black churches and shot 10 worshipers in cold blood.
These events are not isolated footnotes of American history. As author Kimberly Jones recently explained in the video below, they are systematic expressions of white supremacy.
Here is a map... https://decolonialatlas.wordpress.com/2020/06/20/black-massacres-in-the-u-s/
Massacres are the violence inherent to white supremacy unleashed in full force. Taking untold scores of Black lives, these massacres have largely been erased from the public consciousness.
– In 1868, around 200 recently emancipated African Americans were killed by a white mob in Opelousas, Louisiana for registering voters.
– In 1919, as many as 237 Black farmers in Elaine, Arkansas were lynched for organizing their labor to negotiate better conditions.
– Tulsa’s Greenwood neighborhood was once the wealthiest Black community in the country, earning it the moniker of “Black Wall Street.” In 1921, it was bombed, burning it to the ground and leaving up to 300 dead.
– In 2015, a lone white supremacist in Charleston entered one of the country’s oldest Black churches and shot 10 worshipers in cold blood.
These events are not isolated footnotes of American history. As author Kimberly Jones recently explained in the video below, they are systematic expressions of white supremacy.
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