Stephanie Strick’s Reviews > Black Birds in the Sky: The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre > Status Update

This should be required reading in schools across the country. We should know our histories, the good and the shameful.

“Thus began a concerted effort to erase it from Oklahoma’s history. […] History textbooks completely ignored the event — in fact, it was not included as part of the public school curricula until 2000, nearly eighty years after the massacre.”