‘They didn’t talk about it’: how a historian helped Tulsa confront the horror of its past

In 1921, a white mob attacked Tulsa's Black Wall Street, killing an estimated 300 people, but it wasn't talked about until recently

There was no memorial to it in town. Teachers made no mention of it, not even during a half-semester devoted to local history. The white schoolboy Scott Ellsworth of Tulsa, Oklahoma, was left to wonder what the city's darkest secret could be.

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