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| | CNN - Tulsa panel seeks truth from 1921 race riot - August 3, 1999 |
 | | The Tulsa Race Riot Commission, formed two years ago to determine exactly what happened, will consider next week the controversial issue of what, if any, reparations should be paid to the known survivors of the riot, a group of less than 100 that includes Smith, now 92, and Booker, 86. |
 | | On the night of May 31, 1921, mobs called for the lynching of Dick Rowland, a fl man who shined shoes, after hearing reports that on the previous day he had assaulted Sarah Page, a white woman, in the elevator she operated in a downtown building. |
 | | Another riot survivor, Ruth Avery, who was 7 at the time, gives an account matched by others who told of bombs dropped from small airplanes passing overhead. |
| www.cnn.com /US/9908/03/tulsa.riots.probe (878 words) |
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