The history of racist violence in this country is much deeper than movies will make you think.
I’m a Black man from Oklahoma, so that history is my family history. A cousin was murdered during those hours, and to keep his memory alive, my family on my father’s side tells the story of what happened in Tulsa that day—including that they were never able to find our cousin’s body. I know the story ofstory, as that cousin’s ancestor. But today, as a professor at Oklahoma State University, I’m always shocked by how few students from this state know that these events even happened at all.
One would think that a film about the massacre, a monumental, devastating moment in this country’s history, would have been made in these intervening years. American filmmakers have never shied away from making movies about this country’s difficult history: There have been numerous movies about slavery, about Jim Crow, about the Vietnam War.
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