Sarah J. Jackson: Yesterday was the anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre. There are two survivors left. Ages 109. I think a lot about the failure of this nation to address this atrocity and many others. Not from the 17th, 18th or 19th century, but the 20th. And the determination of those survivors to live so long.

Yesterday was the anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre. There are two survivors left. Ages 109. I think a lot about the failure of this nation to address this atrocity and many others. Not from the 17th, 18th or 19th century, but the 20th. And the determination of those survivors to live so long.

5 things to know about the Tulsa Race Massacre, 103 years laterthehill.com On May 31, 1921, one of the worst incidents of racial violence in America began in Tulsa, Okla. For 18 hours, thousands of homes and businesses were burned to the ground — and anywhere from 50 to 3…

From 2021. There is a paywall, I will share the faces of the remaining two survivors in the thread via photographer Martin Schoeller and NatGeo

The unwavering survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre still want justicewww.nationalgeographic.com After the 100th anniversary, questions remain over how to remember one of the worst acts of racial terror in U.S. history—and what the victims are owed.

Lessie Benningfield Randle and Viola Fletcher. Please learn about these women

The massacre they survived lasted two days so today is also the anniversary. Here is a gift link on the case for reparations in Tulsa

Opinion | Everything They Owned Burned, and They Still Can’t Get Restitution 102 Years Laterwww.nytimes.com After the Tulsa Race Massacre, the courts refused to punish the attackers or offer redress to hundreds of newly destitute people. This injustice continues.

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“Instructors will be expected to attempt a both-sides framework that highlights “violence” on the part of African Americans in Tulsa.” www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/rc...

Florida's teaching standards push educators to lie about slaverywww.msnbc.com Slavery was a brutal and exploitative economic and labor system, which for 250 years relegated Black people to nothing more than property. Those are the facts.

Worth noting that if took this “by and against” both sides argument used to defend things like the Tulsa Massacre to its logical conclusion then Kristallnacht was also justified. To me this would suggest the underlying logic is very, very flawed.

Why did they looks like the ancient Cherokee ?

I vividly recall hateful racial oppression of 1950s-60s, major events in the civil rights struggle. Call it what it was: American Apartheid. Of course too many have no real understanding of those times. Once took clandestine photos of a KKK rally with concealed camera using Kodak hi speed B&W film.

One of the living survivors, Viola Fletcher, published a memoir last year, “Don’t Let Them Bury My Story.”

I was raised a couple of hours from there and had no idea it had occurred at all until it was depicted on HBO's Watchmen.

So many deserve acknowledgment and reparations. According to this article, they're waiting on a court verdict. www.essence.com/news/tulsa-r...

It's Been 103 Years Since The Tulsa Race Massacre: Here's What You Should Know About The Continued Fight For Reparations | Essencewww.essence.com The two remaining survivors of this country’s worst instance of racial violence are awaiting the decision in their case for reparations currently before the Oklahoma Supreme Court.

Sadly, His/story is subjective.

This is why teaching history is important. Our nation's original sin is with us still - and it has shown itself brutally time and again.

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