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Black History Month

Tulsa race massacreWhen segregation kept Black people from being able to shop at white-owned shops or participate fully in the economy, some Black communities responded by creating prosperous communities in which they gained wealth and power—actions which inflamed their poorer white neighbors to respond with riots and massacres.One of the biggest examples of this was in Tulsa, Oklahoma, during the early part of the 20th century.

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