This year marks the 100th anniversary of the 18-hour attack known as the 1921 Tulsa race massacre , one of Americas deadliest acts of domestic terrorism. At least 300 people died during the events from May 31 to June 1, 1921, according to historians. Black residents sought refuge in the homes they had built, even as those homes were looted and burned. Churches were bombed. Pregnant women were brutalized. Children were murdered. An entire thriving community, at least 35 square city blocks, fell.

No one was prosecuted in the aftermath. The massacres impact on the city and its residents was diminished, and the events were branded as a race riot. What should be considered one of Americas most historic efforts to thwart Black progression after enslavement barely gets a mention in U.S. textbooks. If it isnt amnesia, its apathy. And if neither, it is a tragically quintessential American story of how white terror seeks to destroy communities of color and tell a revisionist history.