Ethnic cleansing here at home--- Tulsa race riot among worst in U.S. history
Tuesday, July 13, 2004 at 09:31AM
TheSpook
Americans shudder when they hear about ethnic cleansing atrocities
elsewhere in the world, but less than a century ago something similar
was happening in the United States, a Kansas University professor says.
Bill Tuttle, American studies professor, is researching and writing an
essay about the 1921 Tulsa, Okla., race riots, considered by some to be
among the worst in history. About 300 people -- mostly blacks -- were
killed in 16 hours. [more]
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