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[–] [email protected] 80 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The Tulsa Race Massacre beats it by a few months, May 31st to June 1st. It leveled around 35 blocks of a wealthy black community, partly using firebombs dropped from planes, which was known up until that point as "Black Wall Street". A 2001 commission put the death count somewhere between 150-300 deaths, and noted that the city aided in the massacre.

Wikipedia

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

It's also very accurately and devastatingly depicted in HBO's "Watchmen"

[–] Enigma 9 points 2 years ago

Side note: Greenwood was planned by Booker T Washington. There are actually several Greenwood districts throughout the south.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Huh I wonder why we don't learn that in school. /s

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Don't wanna give you any ideas that there were violent protests in the United States since it's inception

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 years ago

Or that meaningful labor rights can only be gained successfully through violent protest.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

iheart.com doesn't seem to work outside of the US. Here's their YouTube version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWvVdjmBhHc

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/watch?v=XWvVdjmBhHc

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Knew this bot was coming, hence why I didn't change my link :o)

Also it's their official channel, so if you did want to support them with Google advertising, at least it would go to the source.

[–] typo 2 points 2 years ago

Well if we're being like that screw youtube and google still, but screw iheart even more

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago
[–] Tramdan 8 points 2 years ago

Cool bug fact is

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)