The Tulsa Race Massacre has been excluded from most American textbooks

Evidence

Examples of this work could include reading the picture book Encounter when studying Christopher Columbus at a primary or elementary grade level. In this book, the perspective of a young Taino Indian’s point of view is explored. Instead of the narrative told in the textbooks, students are exposed to another side of the story. In another example, when studying the Tulsa Race Massacre, which has been completely left out of most textbooks, students can examine photographs, listen to survivor stories, and tour, including virtually, the original site of Black Wallstreet. Another topic often not talked about is the internment of Japanese Americans during the Second World War. By reading A Place Where Sunflowers Grow, students get a first-hand look at the experiences of people who lived in these internment camps. — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 618

Categorization

• SEED: Potential angle: cataloguing canonical American historical events still missing from mainstream textbooks as itself a form of cultural silencing.
• CANDY: The Tulsa Race Massacre omitted from textbooks despite being a documented mass atrocity is a striking conversation fact.
• STORYSTEM: A character discovering a history suppressed from their own schooling could drive a narrative about education and erasure.
• XREF: connects to: The 1619 date was excluded from American history education, not merely overlooked — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project: A New American Origin…, 25

Broader Connections

• The 1619 date was excluded from American history education, not merely overlooked #corroborates (0.78) — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 25