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| | Reader's Guide for Riot and Remembrance published by Houghton Mifflin Company |
 | | Black and white Tulsans today agree that a wrong was committed, but balancing the scales of justice in this case, by paying reparations to fl riot survivors would drive a deep wedge between the fls who demand restitution for their losses and the whites who disavow any responsibility. |
 | | Whites, however, saw Greenwood as a cesspool of crime and immorality, a district of opium dens, jazz joints, brothels, speakeasies, and gunplay. |
 | | White Tulsans, in contrast, believed that the fls at the courthouse were drunken lawbreakers who started the riot and that Greenwood was destroyed by a band of ruffians who did not represent the city. |
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