Commemorating the Tulsa Massacre: A Search for Identity and Historical Complexity
04 June 2020 – Alaina Roberts 3
anniversaries, racial violence, television, commemoration, commemoration series, African American history, Native American history, tulsa
When HBO’s Watchmen aired on October 20th last year, it introduced millions of Americans to the explosive episode of racial terror that gripped the black residents of Tulsa, Oklahoma from May 30th to June 1st, 1921. The TV show dramatizes how white Americans used guns and even makeshift bombs to destroy millions of dollars in property and murdered an estimated 100 to 300 African Americans over the course of three days (the “aftermath” of which is pictured here). Read More