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“Black people will never gain full equality in this country. Even those herculean efforts we hail as successful will produce no more than temporary ‘peaks of progress,’ short lived victories that slide into irrelevance as racial patterns adapt in ways that maintain white dominance. This is a hard-to-accept fact that all history verifies. We must acknowledge it, not as a sign of submission, but as an act of defiance.”

From the night of May 31 to the afternoon of June 1, 1921, thousands of White Tulsans—as many as 10,000—carried out a coordinated attack on Greenwood. “They burned houses and businesses. They just took what they wanted out of the buildings then they burned them. They murdered people. We were told they just dumped the dead bodies into the river. I remember running outside of our house. I ran past dead bodies,” Mother Randle said to Congress. “I was scared— I didn’t think we would make it out alive.”

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The Sonoran desert, Arizona