This is Side Door, a podcast from Smithsonian with support from PRX. I'm Tony Con.

Has it been a year already?

Well, almost.

It's been 11.5 months since we embarked on this adventure that we call Side Door.

I remember the day our first episode went public.

I was super antsy.

I wondered if people would like the podcast or if people would even listen.

And slowly, as weeks turned into months and months turned into a year, more and more people tuned in.

And for that, for you, we're grateful.

So we figured this was a good time to reach back to our fairly small but growing archives and

share one of our most impactful episodes from last season.

It's a story about the Tulsa Race Massacre,

one of the most devastating outbreaks of racial violence in American history,

targeting one of the wealthiest African American neighborhoods in the United States in 1921.

In the Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma, at least 1,256 homes, along with churches, schools, businesses,

and even a hospital, were deliberately burned or destroyed. We still don't know for sure how

many people were injured or killed. Then, until the turn of the century, there was a deafening

silence that drowned out the massacre's memory for the people of Oklahoma and the country. And now, recently found documents put a finer

point on the events of 1921 and ask for a modern day reckoning of this nearly 100-year-old

injustice. And a quick heads up to our listeners. There are graphic firsthand accounts of violence in the story.

Producer Megan Dietrich brings that story to you.

After this quick break.

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