Today is the anniversary of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre where racist whites slaughtered hundreds of people in a successful black neighborhood known as the Black Wall Street. It& #39;s one of the worst moments in American history. https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2018/05/31/615546965/meet-the-last-surviving-witness-to-the-tulsa-race-riot-of-1921">https://www.npr.org/sections/...

What& #39;s worse is many Americans don& #39;t even know about it. Many just recently learned about it on the HBO show Watchmen which has a very visceral portrayal of the massacre in its fist episode. https://youtu.be/Shw2-7uazc0 ">https://youtu.be/Shw2-7uaz...

I only learned of it a few years ago from black gun-rights activist Kevin Dixie. We still don& #39;t know how many people were killed during the massacre. Tulsa committed this year, nearly 100 years later, to investigating mass Graves associated with it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/02/03/tulsa-mass-graves-excavation/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2...

It& #39;s important for us to remember and understand our past-including the worst parts of it. I think survivor Olivia Hooker& #39;s story is one we should know. Her closing words are poignant. "I think things can get better but maybe it won& #39;t be in a hurry," she said.

Olivia Hooker became the first African-Americans woman to join the Coast Guard, earned a doctorate in psychology, and created the Tulsa Race Riot Commission.