{"id":187317,"date":"2021-06-01T08:59:27","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T08:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=203655"},"modified":"2021-06-01T08:59:27","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T08:59:27","slug":"shame-of-the-nation-the-1921-tulsa-massacre-in-historical-context","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/06\/01\/shame-of-the-nation-the-1921-tulsa-massacre-in-historical-context\/","title":{"rendered":"Shame of the Nation: The 1921 Tulsa Massacre in Historical Context"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre upon us, I\u2019ve heard a lot of discussion about it on shows like Democracy Now! but not as much detail as I would have liked on the background of this shameful episode in American history and exactly what triggered it. So, I decided to dig further myself, picking up a copy of journalist Tim Madigan\u2019s, 2001 book, The Burning: The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, re-released this year with a new afterward. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/06\/01\/shame-of-the-nation-the-1921-tulsa-massacre-in-historical-context\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/06\/01\/shame-of-the-nation-the-1921-tulsa-massacre-in-historical-context\/\">Shame of the Nation: The 1921 Tulsa Massacre in Historical Context<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/06\/01\/shame-of-the-nation-the-1921-tulsa-massacre-in-historical-context\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre upon us, I\u2019ve heard a lot of discussion about it on shows like Democracy Now! but not as much detail as I would have liked on the background of this shameful episode in American history and exactly &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,266],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187317"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187318,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187317\/revisions\/187318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}