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The Case for Reparations in Tulsa, Oklahoma
May 29, 2020
Originally published by Human Rights Watch · May 29, 2020
In the span of about 24 hours between May 31 and June 1, 1921, a white mob descended on Greenwood, a successful black economic hub in Tulsa, Oklahoma then-known as “Black Wall Street,” and burned it to the ground.
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