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TULSA, Okla. — For decades, Oklahoma students weren’t required to learn about the Tulsa race massacre in school, in what the city’s school superintendent called a “conspiracy of silence.”
Now some residents and educators worry that a new state law could derail progress in teaching about the tragedy, in which white mobs burned much of the Black community of Greenwood to the ground a century ago, leaving as many as 300 people dead.
