The Tulsa 'Race Riots'

# Stuff You Should Know - The Tulsa Race Massacre

Josh and Chuck dive into one of America's most horrifying and deliberately buried chapters of history: the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, when a thriving Black community known as "Black Wall Street" was systematically destroyed by white mobs in just a few days. Starting with the controversial incident involving a Black shoeshine boy and a white elevator operator that sparked the violence, the hosts unpack how an entire prosperous town of 10,000 residents—complete with millionaires, top doctors, and 600 businesses—was reduced to ashes while the nation collectively agreed to pretend it never happened. This is a powerful and unflinching look at racial violence in America that was actively suppressed from history books for nearly 80 years.