What happens when African American people do as they’re told by the white supremacist power structure? For a concrete example, go back to the spring of 1921. Tulsa, Oklahoma, was home to one of the wealthiest black communities in the nation. During that time, Tulsa was full of black-owned doctors’ offices, law firms, banks, stores, and […]
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