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Not American - didn't even know anything about this until Watchmen. I thought it was just made up for the show! Crazy.
It’s OK. They barely teach it in the United States because they don’t want kids to know.
I grew up in Oklahoma and don’t even remember lessons about it. I had Oklahoma History classes and don’t remember anyone spending much time on it. Granted, that was decades ago, but still.
There’s so much missing in the curriculum. Even in my crunchy blue state we never learned about company towns, The Business Plot, Blair Mountain Rebellion, Tulsa, barely anything about Japanese Internment, absolutely nothing about American meddling in South America/The Middle East…
American. Same experience.... Yeah......
But wait, there's more: May I present, America's only successful coup d‘état.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmington_massacre
I'll recommend "The Warmth of Other Suns" if you want a beautifully written history of racial history across the families / time periods in the US. Definitely helped me personalize & put together a lot of pieces left out of my education.
As a college-educated American adult, I didn't know about it until Watchmen either... And I know I'm far from the only one.
If it was ever mentioned in school, the context was, "Tulsa race riots," putting the blame squarely on the victims.
It was actually only one of dozens of similar atrocities that happened around that time. In fact, 1919 is referred to as "Red Summer," for the number of organized attacks on black neighborhoods.
I live in the Orlando area, and a local news station did an extended story on the 100th anniversary of a local massacre in Ocoee,, caused when a black citizen insisted on voting in the 1920 Presidential election. 30-80 black citizens were murdered, their properties confiscated, and the rest driven from town. Their stolen properties were distributed among prominent white members of the town, whose families still own the properties to this day.
Like most of these massacres, the Ocoee massacre was almost totally forgotten, by design. They weren't talked about, and younger generations weren't told about them, neither in school, nor at home. Discussion was harshly discouraged. Within a couple generations, they were mostly forgotten.
American here and that's how I learned about it too.
American, and Oklahoman here. They must be embarrassed or something because I also never learned it in school growing up within an hour of Tulsa.
I also learned of it from either Watchmen or Lovecraft County. I forget which I saw first.