We've all heard the stories of Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks, but what do you know about the Tulsa race riot of 1921?
Listen as Emory Associate Professor of African American Studies Carol Anderson tells the story of violent discrimination in this installment of the video series "The Hidden History of the Quest for Civil Rights."
Anderson shares some of the lesser know instances of racial prejudice in the video series, which is produced in observance of Black History Month.
See the full series:
- 'Red Tails' and WWII-era race relations
- The 'spectacle lynching' of Claude Neal
- The Tulsa race riot of 1921
- The Scottsboro Boys
- The Missouri sharecroppers strike of 1939
- The 1946 Columbia race riot
- The lynching of Cleo Wright
- Obtaining civil rights, not human rights
Originally published February 2012