This episode was released just a couple of weeks ago – and a very important one in lieu of recent events in the United States. It’s a book definitely worth visiting if you have any desire to read about past injustices done to African-Americans in the very recent past (which is pretty frightening unto itself). A reminder that while we’ve made some baby steps towards racial equality in the last one hundred years, a lot more still needs to be done.
June 1st, 2020 marked the 99th anniversary of one of the most despicable acts of mass murder in American history. A mob of 10,000 white vigilantes descended on an African-American suburb of Tulsa, Oklahoma – looting, burning houses and businesses, and killing men, women and children. Black business owners put up a fierce resistance, but were soon beaten back by sheer numbers and firepower.
My guest, Tim Madigan, is the award-winning author of The Burning: Massacre, Destruction, and the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921. He shares some of the firsthand accounts he was able to record from witnesses to the tragic event, and offers an explanation as to how this massacre became a “hidden history” in the United States up until recently.
