It feels like there is never enough time to get the kind of history lessons out there that are needed, and the time we do have is spent so inefficiently. I'm n

It feels like there is never enough time to get the kind of history lessons out there that are needed, and the time we do have is spent so inefficiently. I'm not a student of these incidents, but its important just to get a sense of the scale in number of incidents of these race riots. Just two years previously, a particularly bad year in 1919 saw over two dozen(in part known as 'The Red Summer') recorded riots. And they were everywhere. Just google '<major city> race riot', and you'll probably hit at least one, even for what are now liberal and metropolitan cities. Then bear in mind, like Tulsa, many of these pogroms and lynchings were the victim of a cover up. The 'law' enforcing whites were often participants. Documents conveniently disappeared, survivors were terrified into silence, and witnessing whites told investigating officials that they just saw nothing that day. Any hard number you find out there is probably conservative because we just don't know. Not everyone was sending around post cards of the dead and destroyed like in Tulsa, although many certainly did. If you're curious, there is an entire Wikipedia article on "Lynching Postcards". The imagery is disturbing, so you can find it yourself. Even outside of understanding race relations, this and labor rights suppression (another incredibly undertaught topic) show how 'recent' and fragile the Rule of Law is in this country.