The Awful 1906 Race Massacre of Black Citizens in Atlanta

Atlanta is not a “city too busy to hate”

Le Petit Journal, October 7, 1906. Originally published on the Public Domain

The Tulsa Race Massacre has garnered national attention in the last year and in the wake of America’s racial reckoning following the murder of George Floyd in May of 2020. The massacre led to the destruction of Black Wall Street in Tulsa in 1921, as well as the death of over 300 people, despite…