Tulsa’s mass violence was rounded off and hidden until recently

Evidence

Thirty-five(ish) blocks, and a flame that spent days burning itself tired, Three hundred (ish) Black folks murdered into anonymity. … A history tucked away in attic floorboards long enough to forget all it once was. — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 871

Categorization

• QUESTION: The ‘(ish)’ hedges on both blocks and deaths — worth chasing the current best estimates and how they’ve changed across reassessments of the massacre.
• ADDENDUM: Relevant to ‘On Sacrifice’: here mass murder’s denial-of-count plays out in the American genocide register rather than ritual sacrifice.