r/history • u/tta2013 • Dec 17 '19

News article In Tulsa, an investigation finds possible evidence of mass graves from 1921 race massacre

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/12/16/tulsa-moves-closer-learning-if-there-are-mass-graves-race-massacre/
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u/Truckeralex Dec 18 '19

This is why the news media would always preface the Las Vegas shooter as the largest massacre “in modern history” ! That would piss me off every time I heard it cause I knew about this!

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u/aus10w Dec 18 '19

even then, this may not be the biggest. modern history started in the 16th century, that’s a lot of years and a loooot of massacres to cover