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Sometimes the act of forgetting is accomplished through the simple passage of time. Sometimes you have to help it along with a pair of scissors. In the archives of the Tulsa Tribune, a now defunct Oklahoma newspaper, two pages from May 31, 1921, have been clipped away. Researchers believe they contained an inflammatory news story and an editorial--"To Lynch a Negro Tonight"--that egged on the men who set off that year's Tulsa riot, one of the worst episodes of racial violence in American history. When students of the event went looking for those pages, what they found...
Then the serious business of forgetting began. For decades Oklahoma history books made no mention of the riot. Police and state-militia documents disappeared. Tulsa went back to being a city so segregated that for years it used paychecks of different colors for its white and black teachers. In the 1990s a few determined Tulsans, both black and white, succeeded in creating a state-appointed "truth commission." Hirsch, a onetime reporter for the New York Times who interviewed more than 100 people for this book, tells that part of the story with quiet dispassion...
Last year the Oklahoma legislature passed a bill affirming that whites were responsible for the riot. But it did not provide reparations to a group of elderly black survivors, a redress that had set off years of controversy. (Each of them received instead a gold-plated medal with the state seal.) The archives of the Tulsa Tribune are still incomplete. But thanks to the commission--and Hirsch's book--the crimes that were covered up are now back in the collective memory...
...Notre Dame? Murphy’s got to be a shoo-in. Didn’t you hear? Murphy used to work under current ND athletic director Kevin White at the University of Maine. So never mind Denver Broncos coach Mike Shanahan and his two Super Bowl rings. Forget Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops and his national title. Murphy’s a definite lock...
Rechul pulled out all the stops in his final match and earned a 3-2 win over senior James Huml in double overtime. That would be all the points Harvard would get as Oklahoma State...