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Rowland was arrested the following day, on May 31, 1921. With the headline "Nab Negro for Attacking Girl in Elevator" that day's issue of the*Tulsa Tribune*newspaper claimed Rowland had attacked Page and had torn her clothes.[5][6]*A subsequent gathering of angry local*whites*outside the courthouse where Rowland was being held, and the spread of rumors that he had been*lynched, alarmed the local*black*population, some of whom arrived at the courthouse armed. Shots were fired, and twelve people were killed; ten white and two black.[6]
In retaliation, a riot by whites was sparked that lasted 16 hours
100 years ago. Theres been a few riots since then. Can we move on?
So people were bad 100 years ago. What does that have to do with me now?
Looking back does nothing. We should be looking ahead to make things better.
But some people want to keep the guilt and victimization going for some reason?
Some people value accurate historical records. A hundred years of ignoring or sweeping under the carpet an atrocity like Greenwood needs to be rectified. If this bothers you then you can ignore it and pretend it never happened.
I'm surprised a conservative newspaper would run this story. Are white people jealous of successful blacks, and why hasn't there been another successful black neighborhood since?
Atlanta?
Interesting thing about Tulsa greenwood district is that black dollars rebuilt the city. What killed greenwood was integration 40 years later.
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But was it justified?
According to the whites, a black man from that neighborhood raped a white girl and then the blacks killed 10 white men trying to have the rapist lynched.
If you didn't trust the other race, and you thought them inferior, what would your reaction be?
Or maybe there was no rape and it was just assault, but it is all a matter of perspective.
Justified? No!never! and if a "woman" was raped then the law should have been invloved. Being ignorant doesn't give you the right to do what was done. That violating a white woman line is the same garbage that the murderers of Emmet Till used as justifications to their barbaric act and all he allegidly did was whistle.
How did the increasing threat of mob justice and African American’s embracing self-defense, influence the Tulsa Race Massacre?
Unit Description
This unit explores how lynchings of Black people in the Southern and border states became an institutionalized method used to terrorize Black Americans and maintain white supremacy following Reconstruction. Students examine how mob law was used as a means of social control.
Then, students will explore how federal, state, and local officials failed to prosecute perpetrators of lynchings and protect Black Americans. This will include an exploration into the failure to pass a federal bill making lynching a federal crime in 1922. Black self-defense against mob justice and lynchings in Tulsa, Oklahoma’s infamous race massacre was part of a wider trend in America.
Armed veterans and other African American men rushed to defend Dick Rowland, a man accused of assaulting a white woman in an elevator, to protect him from lynching. This lesson focuses on the history and role of racial violence in the Tulsa Race Massacre, and how Black Tulsans responded.
Justified? No!never! and if a "woman" was raped then the law should have been invloved. Being ignorant doesn't give you the right to do what was done. That violating a white woman line is the same garbage that the murderers of Emmet Till used as justifications to their barbaric act and all he allegidly did was whistle.
And George Stinson before Till. He also was proved innocent years later.
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