The Red Summer: When whites' ethnic cleansing campaign reached a bloody climax

Eliminationism in America, Part 7: So-called 'race riots' drove Black people freed from slavery's yoke away from their rural communities and into a new kind of oppression

The depiction of the Tulsa ‘race riot’ in HBO’s Watchmen.

Part 7 of 12. [Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6.]

The so-called “nadir” of race relations in America—when white Americans systematically drove the freed Black population out of their rural areas through a program of ethnic cleansing (known euphemistically as “race riots”) and terrorism, forcing them to r…