This is Side Door, a podcast from Smithsonian with support from PRX.

I'm Tony Kahn.

Has it been a year already?

Well, almost, it's been 11 and a half 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.

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