Josephine Baker Was A Freedom Fighter: Black History Facts We Bet You Didn’t Know
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Meg Butler
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Tulsa, OK Was Once The Richest City African-American City In The US
Until white people burned it to the ground in 1921. Enraged by the financial success of the African-American section of town dubbed “Black Wall Street”, Tulsa dropped fire bombs with bi-planes and then attacked the city on foot, massacring its residents and chasing down refugees.
They burned hundreds of homes, businesses, hospitals and churches. Those not killed fled as refugees or were arrested. Postcards of the event were a popular keepsakes to commemorate “running the negro out of Tulsa.” The government didn’t acknowledge the massacre until 1996. “Black Wall Street” never recovered.
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