The Tulsa Massacre, race and America: I finally understand my personal stake in writing this history
SalonAt first glance, two of the dominant narratives of my personal and professional life would have little in common. The first is my close friendship with Fred Rogers, the icon of children's television, that began in 1995 and lasted until his death eight years later. Then, in early 2000, I first learned of the Tulsa Massacre, when a white mob numbering in the thousands obliterated one of America's most prosperous African American communities, leaving hundreds dead, thousands homeless, and emotional and economic scars that linger today. I first wrote a newspaper story about the massacre, then a book called "The Burning," learning then that what happened in Tulsa was not some horrible one-off, but completely consistent with that time in the United States. I've long had this theory—that the hearts of millions of other white Americans like me, people of good will, will be changed, as mine was, when they learn the true nature of racial history in the United States.
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