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4:31 George Monroe recalled bits and pieces of the Tulsa Race Massacre up until the end of his life. The images never could escape his memory. “I remember seeing people getting shot,” he said In a 1999 oral history. In that oral history, collected by the Tulsa Race Riot Commission for their 2001 report, Monroe vividly recalls his mother telling her four children to hide under a bed as a group of white men approached their home. “My sister grabbed me and pulled me under there,” he sai...

4:28   In that oral history, collected by the Tulsa Race Riot Commission for their 2001 report, Monroe vividly recalls his mother telling her four children to hide under a bed as a group of white men approached their home. “My sister grabbed me and pulled me under there,” he said. “And while I was under the bed, one of the guys come in past me and stepped on my finger. And as I was about to scream, my sister put her hand over my mouth so I couldn’t be heard.” Monroe, who died in ...

The Violent History of White Supremacy Is Rarely Taught in Schools. It Should Be 7 min read Teran Tease, 5, watches at Oaklawn Cemetery during a test excavation in the search for possible mass graves from the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre on July 21, 2020.Mike Simons/Tulsa World via AP Share article Copy URL Searing images from this month’s mostly white insurrection in Washington, D.C.—including a hangman’s noose on the Capitol grounds and the Confederate flag carried inside t...