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>>Law enforcement officials used airplanes to drop firebombs on buildings, homes, and fleeing families, stating they were protecting against a "Negro uprising."

Holy shit. Now there's something they don't teach you in school.

Pretty crazy that this is the first time I have heard of that. Our family would take a short trip to Tulsa once or twice a year when I was a kid.

> the Oklahoma state government with the assistance of Tulsa's white residents massacred hundreds of black residents and razed the neighborhood within hours

Words are insufficient. I also didn't learn about this in my history classes.