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March 16, 2015People who
suffered in the past can be
compensated for their suffering.
Who should pay: everyone or just the people who
caused the suffering?
Objective: SWBAT examine sequencing of events IOT examine the issues around The Tulsa Riot of 1921. Why is it significant?
Tulsa, Oklahoma: 72,000 people
Jim Crow + 3,000 Klan members
Located near oil fields
Greenwood: African
American Tulsa Extremely
prosperous Hundreds of
Black owned businesses
The start: The arrest of a man
named either Dick Rowland or James Jones
Rowland, a shoe shiner, had to go up an elevator of a specific building to use a bathroom
It was not a colored only, it was in a business where the owner allowed Black people to use the bathroom
Accusation of Rape: Rowland
stumbled into the female elevator operator
This was observed by a white man in the building
Rowland is arrested for assault
Threat of lynching: Rowland’s life is
threatened Police try to
protect him Many lawyers,
who knew him from the shoeshine stand where he worked, defend his character
The fighting begins: An attempt is made to lynch
Rowland, but the police stop it Armed African Americans go to
the courthouse to help the police Whites see the armed African
Americans and believe an “Uprising” is happening, they get their guns
A shot is fired by an undetermined person
Several die: At least one white,
maybe five African Americans
The National Guard and local white citizens are on patrol
Some whites drive into Greenwood and exchange fire with residents
Fires are set in the business district:
African Americans had a choice – try to fight or flee
Nearly all of Greenwood was destroyed
Hundreds of African Americans are held prisoner
Mount Zion Baptist Church Before:
Mount Zion After:
Mount Zion Today:
A Synagogue burned in Nazi Germany 1938. Fair
comparison?
The Aftermath:
Up to 50 whites and 300 African Americans are killed
The Aftermath: It took until 2002
for Tulsa to admit this happened
Few survivors are still alive
No reparations have been paid
Tulsa was not the only race riot:
There were many, including earlier ones in Wilmington NC and Atlanta
Tulsa was likely the worst
Later, race riots happened in many cities