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“[Department of Corrections staff] are the subject matter experts. Please do not become the Legislature and treat them like second-class citizens.”
-Former Oklahoma Department of Corrections Director Joe Allbaugh, speaking to the Board of Corrections after he abruptly resigned yesterday [The Oklahoman]
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“What people in the community and historians are trying to raise up is what happened in Tulsa is a deliberate, coordinated, systematic assault on a community that resulted in that community being completely destroyed, and there are estimates that as many as 300 people were killed. That is not a race riot. This was a massacre.”
-Karlos Hill, chair of the African American studies department at the University of Oklahoma, who is leading a “Tulsa Race Massacre Institute” to help Tulsa Public Schools teachers learn about the 1921 destruction of Tulsa’s Black Wall Street by a white mob and how to teach it to students [Tulsa World].
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