Actor writes in New York Times that he ‘never read a page of any school history book’ about 1921 massacre

In an essay lamenting the long neglect of the Tulsa race massacre, the Oscar-winning actor Tom Hanks said “white educators and school administrators” in the US had “omitted the volatile subject for the sake of the status quo, placing white feelings over Black experience – literally Black lives in this case”.

Related: ‘They didn’t talk about it’: how a historian helped Tulsa confront the horror of its past

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