Tulsa Greenwood District and Black History Month (Seminole, Cherokee: appointed, house)

[Howest2008]

Originally Posted by gypsy2

briansgi, I checked out Google books. I see that the "The Burning" was removed from the History category. I wonder why. Sampled a few pages of "Riot and Remembrance: America's Worst Race Riot and Its Legacy" By James S. Hirsch, that looks interesting also.

The Plot Thicken Gypsy2 if you can get me the Author of the book
The Burning I can check some Libraries out here??????

[Howest2008]

Originally Posted by buzzpost

It is SO sad that these people, who were fleeing racism ended up being involved in perhaps the greatest race riot (and perpetrated by whites) in history. They built a prosperous new community that was destroyed and never fully recovered. So many lives destroyed, and not only their lives but many of the lives of their children and grandchildren.

I hope Tulsa does the RIGHT thing and rededicates itself to rebuilding this once thriving community.

Thank you Howest.

Starting in the 1990's Tulsa has made Leaps Hoops Jumps and Skips in
The Development of the area , however there's a tremendous need for
Upward Mobile African American to Reinvest In The Area , as we once
did once upon a time in the days of old.

[buzzpost]

Howest that would be Tim Madigan. You can read the entire book below.

The Burning: Massacre, Destruction ... - Google Books

[Howest2008]

Originally Posted by buzzpost

Howest that would be Tim Madigan. You can read the entire book below.

The Burning: Massacre, Destruction ... - Google Books

Thanks buzzpost the book is available at the Solano County
Library , I will be giving it a "read" once again thanks.

Search Results (http://snapweb.snap.lib.ca.us/cgi-bin/cw_cgi?resultsScreen+28508+1+4+1 - broken link)

[Howest2008]

Dick Rowland Ground Zero of the Tulsa Race Riot

Dick Rowland

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Dick Rowland (born c. 1902) was an African-American teen-age shoeshiner whose false arrest in May 1921 was the impetus for the Tulsa Race Riot. When he was arrested for attempted assault, Rowland was 19 years old. The white teen-ager, who was supposed to have been the victim, declined to prosecute. The arrest was prompted after Rowland tripped in an elevator on his way to a segregated bathroom, and a white store clerk misconstrued the incident as an "assault."

[Howest2008]

I'm going to not focus on the Greenwood District riot of 1921
because that story is not worthy of attention. I will tell you
what I heard about the riot I heard that explosives were
dropped from Army Air Corp National Guard planes and
other planes that Tulsa Police Dept. Officers were in , and
that machine gun were used against the African American
of the Greenwood District , and also that the Blacks were
attack by the Military , Police and a White Mob (also) read
this Link located below.


The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921: Part Two (http://exodusnews.com/HISTORY/History011.htm - broken link)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Air_Force

[Howest2008]

BLACK WALL STREET

View John Wills - "Just a Season"'s blog
“The Rise and Fall”
“Black Wall Street” is the first in a series of articles intended to inspire, enlighten, empower, and share the history of a people at a time when the odds were against all odds. It was during a time called segregation, when Jim Crow ruled and separate but equal was the law of the land. Because of this de facto Apartheid like system African American were forced to live in communities dependent upon each other in order to survive and survive they did.

[iontcare]

The date was June 1, 1921, when "Black Wallstreet," the name fittingly given to one of the most affluent all-black communities in America, was bombed from the air and burned to the ground by mobs of envious whites. In a period spanning fewer than 12 hours, a once thriving 36-black business district in northern Tulsa lay smoldering-A model community destroyed, and a major Africa-American economic movement resoundingly defused.

[iontcare]

it wasn't a riot it was a massacre a black holocaust over 3,000 people died how many riots you know of with that many lives taken

[Ecovlke]

Originally Posted by iontcare

it wasn't a riot it was a massacre a black holocaust over 3,000 people died how many riots you know of with that many lives taken

So true, so true. I grew up and now live again very near Greenwood. The payback is the revitilization!! I remember the blight, but blight no more!