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By Adrian O Hanlon III Editor May 28, 2021
Primus Moore
A retired McAlester educator believes students can grow through learning more about the Tulsa Race Massacre.
Primus Moore said more should be done to educate students about what historians call the nation s worst race massacre, which merits just three sentences in a history text for juniors at McAlester High School. The school supplements instruction with videos and materials â but Moore said more should be done statewide.
âI really don t think it s enough, Moore said. I think it s a start; it s a beginning.
The Tulsa Race Massacre began May 31, 1921, and lasted less than 16 hours with an angry white mob destroying 1,200 Black homes and businesses in the previously flourishing Black community of Greenwood along what was known as Black Wall Street.
⢠McAlester News-Capital Editorial Board May 21, 2021
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THUMBS UP to those who enjoyed the recent celebration at a historic building and park in McAlester.
A group of L Ouverture School alumni thanked volunteers for their restoration efforts at the historic McAlester school building during a May Day celebration Saturday at McAlester s Michael J. Hunter Memorial Park.
McAlester resident Primus Moore and Herbert Keith, both L Ouverture alumni, continue their efforts to save the former public school attended by Black students in McAlester from 1908 to 1968 â when 115 L Ouverture High School students integrated with McAlester High School.
The two alumni organized the recent event based on similar activities held at the school during that era to celebrate the nearing end of the academic year.