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Donald Trump in Tulsa, site of the largest lynching in american history


Why Tulsa ? Why June 19 ? The decision of Donald Trump to hold its first meeting of the campaign for the past three months the Juneteenth, day celebrating the end of slavery in the United Statesin this town , Oklahoma, site of the largest lynching in american history, was shocked. For many officials of organizations of african-american and elected officials black, the choice, announced in the wake of protests against racism and police violence, was “a slap in the face and a lack of respect “. In the Face of criticisms of the president in the campaign was postponed twenty-four hours of his coming in the martyr city, where in may 1921, some three hundred African-Americans were massacred by the white population.

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In July, this tragedy will be buried in the land of Tulsa there are nearly one hundred-year-old could deliver its secrets and find in the history of the United States the place it deserves. A team of archaeologists from the university of Florida, conducted by the forensic anthropologist, Phoebe Stubblefield, is on the point of update of what they suspect to be two mass graves containing the bodies of the victims of the largest lynching ever conducted on american soil. Long overshadowed by the authorities of the city, barely mentioned in history books in american schools until the early 2000s, the massacre during two days in may, 1921, however, forms the climax of racial tensions in America’s segregated from the beginning of the XXe century.

“Lynch a negro tonight “

As often in these cases, the story begins with a rumor of a sexual nature between a black man and a white woman. A morning of early spring, a young shoeshine boy from the city enters the building that houses the only toilets in the neighborhood allowed Blacks. Entering the elevator, he would have accidentally crushed the foot of the operator white, who officiated on this day, according to a survey by the Oklahoma Historical Society.

Of the smoke escapes in buildings of Tulsa, during the race riots of 1921.

The cries of the young woman, the accusation quickly spread to a sexual assault, it just flows very quickly. Dick Rowland is swiftly arrested and taken to court where to get together soon a crowd of the angry White. African-Americans, “including veterans of the first world war “, specify the archives, go there also to protect the young man. Gunfire erupts. The local newspaper as its editorial : “Lynch a negro tonight “.

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