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Tulsa race massacre 1921

1830s 21.08.1920 31.05.1921 Along the way, bystanders, many of whom

were leaving a movie theater after a show,

Panic set in as the white mob began firing
Oklahoma was Indiana land. The state’s The first lynching case took place in Things got worse, when white mob came to were caught off guard by the mobs and fled.
name is derived from the Choctaw words Oklahoma, on a white guy, by white mob. police station and required chief to lynch on any black people in the crowd. The white
okla and humma, meaning “red people”. All black Tulsans were very confused about the black young boy. The rumor flied to mob also shot and killed at least one white
their safety. Who’s gonna protect them? Greenwood, the black Tulsans took guns man in the confusion. Some of these lynch
went to police station. And the gun fighting mob were deputized by police and instructed
to “get a gun and get a nigger”.
1902 Greenwood with full armed and massacre
began. Numberous white Tulsans headed to

happened that night.
In the early years of the 20 Century,
th
Oklahoma became a fertile land not only
for jobs but also home to many blacks at Aftermath
that time, by increasing oil extraction.
Oklahoma became the US state, leading Very few black Tulsans survived from the
the country in oil production and pumping massacre and they moved to others states.
a quarter of its oil supply. Many blacks spent the winter of 1921–
1.06.1921 1922 in tents as they worked to rebuild.

1880s - 1890 Numerous eyewitnesses described airplanes
carrying white assailants, who fired rifles
and dropped firebombs on buildings, homes,
and fleeing families. The privately owned
Oklahoma become land for both black aircraft were dispatched from the nearby
and white people to settle down and do Curtiss-Southwest Field outside Tulsa.
business. However, the Jim Crow laws
turned out a barried to seperate the state
into two. The west side of the city is 30.05.1921
Greenwood - the black neighborhood.
A young black shoeshiner went to a
building which had restroom for black
people only, he meet a white girl in
elevator. After few minute, people heard
her scream and saw a young black man
rushing from the building. The clerk
went to the elevator and foundshe in
what he said was a distraught state.
Thinking she had been assaulted, he
summoned the authorities.

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