This came to my Inbox yesterday and I thought it was worth sharing. I vaguely remember this being mentioned at this time in 2020, but freely admit that I don't think I knew about it in 2019 or earlier in my life.
I didn't realize that, in 1921 that there were "private aircraft" available in 1921. Interesting to think about.
When was the first air attack on American soil? 9/11? Where was the worst race riot in American History? Watts? Detroit? Newark?
Answer to all…..TULSA 1921….history books might omit this but society should never forget.
[snip] May 31-June 1 marks 100 years since the thriving Tulsa community of Black Wall Street was burned down and many of its residents were killed in what became known as the Tulsa Race Massacre. The Tulsa race massacre (known alternatively as the Tulsa race riot, the Greenwood Massacre, the Black Wall Street Massacre, the Tulsa pogrom, or the Tulsa Massacre) took place on May 31 and June 1, 1921, when mobs of white residents, many of them deputized and given weapons by city officials, attacked Black residents and businesses of the Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It has been called "the single worst incident of racial violence in American history". The attack, carried out on the ground and from private aircraft, destroyed more than 35 square blocks of the district—at that time the wealthiest Black community in the United States, known as "Black Wall Street”. To learn more please visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yA8t8PW-OkA or https://vimeo.com/504899928
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