Oklahoma Education Head Says State Will Not Back Away From Tulsa Race Massacre
Ryan Walters says that pledge to teach the history of the state should not be considered “critical race theory.”
Ryan Walters says that pledge to teach the history of the state should not be considered “critical race theory.”
In February 2023, a 2013 post about the 1921 Tulsa race riots circulated on Facebook.
A screenshot of a Tumblr post discusses whether Oklahoma’s borders resulting from Texas giving land away to “keep slavery.”
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In February 2019, a meme about the 1921 Tulsa race riot was shared to Facebook, racking up tens of thousands of shares in 24 hours: Above what looked to be an archival photograph of Ku Klux Klan members lining a dirt road, and caption (“History we should all know”), it read: May 31st 1921 The …
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