The Media and 20th Century Race Riots: Causes and Consequences
Race riots of the first half of the 20th century are characterized by white mob violence on African American neighborhoods. In 1921, whites in Tulsa, Oklahoma, invaded the prosperous Greenwood district known as “Black Wall Street,” burning it nearly to the ground and murdering an unknown number of its segregated citizens. In 1946, a similar confrontation, though on a smaller scale, took place in Columbia, Tennessee, with a very different outcome and consequences.
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