At the end of WWI tensions were high as returning veterans competed for jobs raged throughout the United States. In 1921, racial tensions, the reintroduction of the Ku Klux Klan and Jim Crow segregation laws led to massive racial divide that made Tulsa a hotbed ready to catch flame. In this episode, Jen will tell us the story of how one misstep led to the worst incident of racial violence in America.

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