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I first learned about the Tulsa massacre in college when I read an old short story, "Oklahoma Race Riot," by Frances W. Prentice. Originally published in Scribners, August 1931. It's . . . not an easy read.
You can find it online but the list of trigger warnings required dissuades me from linking. It is somewhat educational, for a white reader, as it purports to give the perspective of a white Tulsa resident during the massacre. The narrator is not sympathetic, nor intended to be.
Its publication in 1931 also gives the lie to the claim that "no one knew" about Tulsa at the time. People knew. As the narrator in Prentice's story says repeatedly, "No one really knew what to do."
