June 19th is known as Juneteenth Day and celebrated as Freedom Day, Jubilee Day, and Cel-Liberation Day because, on that day in1865, the Emancipation Proclamation (whereby all previous slaves were freed) was read to newly freed African Americans in Texas.
The problem is that Tulsa is most widely known for the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, (url to Wikipedia article) were 39 confirmed (75–300 estimated by a 2001 commission) were killed and more than 800 were injured.
Some people see the choice of date in combination with the place as a deliberate provocation.
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I had never heard of Juneteenth before and now I also understand the uproar about choosing Tulsa.
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