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  Tulsa City-County Library - Collections & Services - African-American Resource Center - Tulsa Race Riot - ...
Death in a Promised Land: The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921.
Hower, Robert N. Race Riot and the American Red Cross: Angels of Mercy.
Race Riot 1921: Events of the Tulsa Disaster.
www.tulsalibrary.org /aarc/Riot/bibliography.htm   (308 words)

  
  Tulsa Race Riot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Tulsa Race Riot, also known as the 1921 Race Riot, the Tulsa Race War, or the Greenwood Riot, was a large-scale civil disorder confined mainly to the racially segregated Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA in 1921.
During the 16 hours of rioting, over 800 people were admitted to local hospitals with injuries, an estimated 10,000 were left homeless, 35 city blocks composed of 1,256 residences were destroyed by fire, and $1.8 million (nearly $17 million after adjustment for inflation) in property damage.
The Tulsa Race Riot occurred in the racially and politically tense atmosphere of northeastern Oklahoma, some of which was a growing hotbed of anti-fl sentiment and Ku Klux Klan activity at that time.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tulsa_Race_Riot   (3370 words)

  
 CNN - Tulsa panel seeks truth from 1921 race riot - August 3, 1999
TULSA, Oklahoma (CNN) -- Beulah Smith and Kenny Booker, two elderly Oklahomans, lived through one of the worst race riots in U.S. history, a rarely mentioned 1921 Tulsa blood bath that officially took dozens of African-American lives, but more likely claimed hundreds.
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.
The Tulsa commission is scheduled to release its final report on the riot in January.
www.cnn.com /US/9908/03/tulsa.riots.probe   (878 words)

  
 "The Eruption of Tulsa": An NAACP Official Investigates the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921
In fact, white Tulsans' 24-hour rampage was one of the most vicious and intense race riots in American history before or since, resulting in the death of anywhere from 75 to 250 people and the burning of more than 1,000 fl homes and businesses.
Tulsa is a thriving, bustling, enormously wealthy town of between 90,000 and 100,000.
The Negroes of Tulsa and other Oklahoma cities are pioneers; men and women who have dared, men and women who have had the initiative and the courage to pull up stakes in other less-favored States and face hardship in a newer one for the sake of greater eventual progress.
historymatters.gmu.edu /d/5119   (2290 words)

  
 The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921
The year 1919 was particularly noted for the large number of riots in the urban areas of the North where returning white veterans of WWI competed with Southern Blacks for jobs during the post-war depression.
However, the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 was perhaps the costliest incident of racial violence in American history.
In 1997, The Tulsa Race Riot Commission was formed to investigate the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921.
www.mc.cc.md.us /Departments/hpolscrv/VdeLaOliva.html   (775 words)

  
 The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921: Part Two   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 was the worst single incident of racial violence in U.S. history.
The Tulsa Race Riot Commission met again on Monday, August 9,1999 to try to get a better picture of what happened when the fighting broke out on May 31,1921, and to determine if reparations should be made.
Commissioner Jim Lloyd of the Tulsa Race Riot Commission has stated that if the Commission could determine that the riot was actually a police action, government immunity would be lifted and the county, city, and state could be held liable.
www.exodusnews.com /HISTORY/History011.htm   (1521 words)

  
 tulsa race riot
The manager of the Tulsa office of the Pierce Oil Company, he was shot in the back of the bead as he fled from the initial gunplay of the riot that broke out in front of the Tulsa County Courthouse on the evening of May 31.
The end result, "The Tulsa Race Riot," was, all told, an exceptional piece of work, Gill worked diligently to uncover the causes of the riot, and to trace its path of violence and destruction, by scouring old newspaper and magazine articles, Red Cross records, and government documents.
Riot survivors, participants, and observers, to be certain, still told stories of their experiences to family and friends.
www.ipoaa.com /tulsa_race_riot_overview.htm   (7702 words)

  
 Books on The Tulsa Race Riot
Death in a Promised Land: The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 by Dr.
The Tulsa Race War of 1921 by R. Halliburton, Jr.
Riot and Remembrance: The Tulsa Race War and Its Legacy By James S. Hirsch
www.tulsareparations.org /books.htm   (77 words)

  
 Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 Remains Unsettled
It's been 84 years since violence erupted in Tulsa, Oklahoma, but the race riot, which claimed the lives of as many as 300 people and left thousands of residents homeless, is still the center of controversy.
While the report recommended that reparations be made to survivors and descendants of the riot, the Oklahoma Legislature failed to approve a reparations plan, so in 2003 survivors filed a lawsuit against the state and the city of Tulsa.
With nowhere left to turn in the judicial system, Tulsa riot victims are pinning their hopes on lawmakers, hoping to convince Congress to take steps to compensate them for their losses.
www.njsbf.com /njsbf/student/respect/fall05-2.cfm   (529 words)

  
 The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow . Jim Crow Stories . Tulsa Riot | PBS
By 1921, Tulsa was booming thanks to the discovery of oil, and many African Americans had also prospered.
Rumors raced through the fl community that a lynch mob was planning to hang the youth.
the fl district of Tulsa, and the genesis of the riot that decimated this section of town.
www.pbs.org /wnet/jimcrow/stories_events_tulsa.html   (397 words)

  
 Tulsa Historical Society | Learn
An inflammatory report in the May 31 edition of the Tulsa Tribune spurred a confrontation between fl and white armed mobs around the courthouse where the sheriff and his men had barricaded the top floor to protect Rowland.
In the early morning hours of June 1, 1921, Black Tulsa was looted and burned by white rioters.
The Tulsa Historical Society has an extensive archive of photos, clippings and other materials related to the Tulsa Race Riot.
www.tulsahistory.org /learn/riot.htm   (343 words)

  
 The Tulsa, Oklahoma Race Riot of 1921   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
From Chicago to Tulsa, to Omaha, East St. Louis, and many communities in between, and finally to Rosewood, white mobs pursued what can only be described as a reign of terror against African Americans during the period from 1917 to 1923.
If so, the Tulsa race riot would go down as the worst single act of domestic violence on U. soil since the Civil War; worse than the 1965 Watts riot, the 1967 Detroit riot, the 1992 Los Angeles riot and the 1995 Oklahoma city bombing.
The main aims of the project are to spur healing and closure in Tulsa and possibly to offer survivors and descendants of victims some sort of reparations.
www.exodusnews.com /HISTORY/History007.htm   (1136 words)

  
 The Tulsa Reparations Coalition
The city of Tulsa, Oklahoma is haunted by a past that remains unresolved - The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921.
The Tulsa Reparations Coalition (TRC) is sponsored by the Center for Racial Justice, Inc. a 501c3 organization.
TRC was organized on April 7, 2001 in response to the Race Riot Report and its sound reparations recommendations.
www.tulsareparations.org   (625 words)

  
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Over eighty years ago, one of the worst race riots in American history was surreptitiously concealed underneath the charred rubble that was once the flourishing Greenwood District, located in the City of Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Today, the Tulsa Race Riot Commission and other state and city officials continue to speculate as to how many men, women, and children were killed or had their property destroyed by fire between May 30 and June 2, 1921.
After the most devastating riot in Oklahoma history, Tulsa Chief of Police John A. Gustafson was indicted by a grand jury and convicted in Tulsa district court "for failure to take proper precautions for the protection of life and property during the rioting."
academic.udayton.edu /race/01race/afrAm06.htm   (1083 words)

  
 The Tulsa Race Riot, 1921
On May 31, 1921, Tulsa's pace as a progressive, booming, civilized city was halted as a bitter race riot erupted.
Tulsa's police force was small and not able to halt the rioters, so Mayor T.D. Evans asked the governor to send in the National Guard.
Tulsa had a fl population of about 7,000 at that time and many of them fled into the Osage Hills and to the surrounding towns to escape the riot.
www.rootsweb.com /~oktulsa/riot.htm   (677 words)

  
 Tulsa Race Riot Reparations S
On February 13, 2004, 100 survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Riots and 300 of their descendants will have their day in court and chance to make their case for reparations, eight decades after a white mob tore into a thriving fl neighborhood, leaving as many as 300 dead.
The lawsuit is based, in part, on a 2001 report by the Oklahoma Race Riot Commission which uncovered that the government was complicit in the race riot.
A city investigation concluded that the riot was a "Negro uprising." No one was ever prosecuted, nor were fls compensated for the loss of property.
www.cmht.com /cases_cwRaceriot.php   (707 words)

  
 Tulsa Race Riot of 1921
1996 saw the 75th anniversary of the event, and it was observed by memorial services.  In 1997, the Tulsa Race Riot Commission was formed to look into the topic and submit a report on it to the Legislature.  This Commission appears to be making some effort to separate myth from the matter at hand.
The Riot is being seen as the important part of history it is, and not something to be consigned to dusty oblivion.
Even the excerpts of my paper, which were published by a Tulsa church to "memorialize" the Riot, were selectively drawn to emphasize the sensational and under-score the tabloid nature of how we are taught to view the world.
www.personal.utulsa.edu /~marc-carlson/riot/riot2.html   (856 words)

  
 Tulsa Race Riot Historical Fiction for Kids - Press Release
The Tulsa, Oklahoma race riots in 1921 devastated the African American community of Greenwood.
Today, the riots are in the news as an Oklahoma state commission settles on reparations for the victims.
In 1921, 19-year-old aspiring news photographer Nancy Ann Roberdeau travels to Oklahoma to photograph the aftermath of the Tulsa race riots and finds much more than she bargained for...
publishing.press-world.com /v/20338/tulsa-race-riot-historical-fiction-for-kids.html   (439 words)

  
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An indirect cause of the riot was the "agitation among the negroes of the social equality."
One might think that the riot was the indirect cause of the loss; the fire was set during the riot, in an attempt to end it.
It wanted to show that the riot was the result of fl Tulsans and that the destruction was the result of a rioting by mobs, not action coordinated by Tulsa officials.
www.law.ua.edu /staff/bio/abrophy/redfearncomm.html   (1920 words)

  
 Judge nixes Tulsa riot reparations - Race in America - MSNBC.com
TULSA, Okla. - Survivors of a race riot that destroyed Tulsa’s fl neighborhood 83 years ago cannot seek reparations in court because of the long-expired statute of limitations, a federal judge has ruled.
The judge dismissed the lawsuit filed last year against the city and the state by 150 survivors and about 300 descendants of those who lost property or were killed in the 1921 riot.
The judge, however, found that riot victims in 1921 condemned the actions of the National Guard and police department.
msnbc.msn.com /id/4588836   (546 words)

  
 Wikinfo | Tulsa Race Riot
The Tulsa Race Riot was the most devastating race riot in US history in terms of lives lost.
In later years, perhaps due to the massive immigration to Tulsa by outsiders, things have begun to come to light.
There was a commission on the race riot in the late 90s/early 00s.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Tulsa_Race_Riot   (417 words)

  
 Vignette: The Tulsa Race Riot, 1921
The Tulsa Race Riot was a large-scale civil disorder confined mainly to the racially segregated Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1921.
They launched an attack against the fls and soon the riot shifted to the southern fringe of north Tulsa in the area of Greenwood Avenue.
Based on the evidence available, most experts agree that the actual number of fl citizens believed to be killed during the riot number around 150.
faculty.washington.edu /qtaylor/aa_Vignettes/event_tulsa_riot.htm   (429 words)

  
 tulsa
McFarlin Library, University of Tulsa, Tulsa OK Fifth level of the East Wing of McFarlin Library, 2933 East 6th Street, Tulsa, OK 74104-3123.
"The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921" by I. Marc Carlson (2000)
The panel, the Tulsa Race Riot Commission, was created by the state legislature in 1997 to investigate violence that swept the city in 1921.
www.subliminal.org /tulsa   (2373 words)

  
 Race Matters - Panel Calls for Reparations in Tulsa Race Riot
Monroe, now 84, watched the Oklahoma Commission to Study the Tulsa Race Riots of 1921 deliver its final report at a news conference today -- recommending that reparations be paid to survivors and their descendants -- he was feeling stifled once again.
Few argued today with the 11 member panel's conclusion that the events of May 31 and June 1, 1921, were among the worst cases of racial violence in the nations history.
Despite the cool reception that reparations are receiving among lawmakers, Representative Don Ross, who sponsored the bill that created the commission, which included public officials, historians and business leaders, seemed unwilling today to give up on the idea.
www.racematters.org /tulsaraceriot.htm   (627 words)

  
 tulsa race riot 2
As the white mobs continued to move northward, into the heart of the fl residential district, some of the worst violence of the riot appears to have taken place.
Efforts made by the Tulsa Fire Department to halt the burning were of little effect.
On the heels of their brief gun battle with African American riflemen to their north, the guardsmen who were positioned along the crest of Sunset Hill then joined in the invasion of fl Tulsa, with one detachment heading north, the other to the northeast.
ipoaa.com /tulsa_race_riot_story2.htm   (10233 words)

  
 Additional Links to The Tulsa Race Riot   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 - Coming to terms with America’s terror attack on Black America By Roland S. Martin.
Tulsa panel seeks truth from 1921 race riot, Article and video from CNN
Tulsa Race Riot by the Tulsa Historical Society
www.tulsareparations.org /additional.htm   (269 words)

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