Bemusings and Bemoanings of a Baby Boomer
What is the “R Word?” If you don’t already know, you’ll have to keep reading to see.
So, the Tulsa Massacre’s 100 th Anniversary got me to thinking. Most Americans had never even heard of this tragedy until the last few days. I had heard of it back in college in the late-1970s, though not through any course I was taking. “Black Wall Street” was a term I had heard about from my own self-directed research, and from conversations with other like-minded students—some of whom were Afro-American Studies majors (which was a relatively new course of study back then. I’m pretty sure it had only arri