Tulsa Race Riots

Tulsa Race Riots1921-05-30 Victims: 1100 (300 / 800) Tools: Guns, Fire, Airplanes	A black guy assaulted a white girl, and the black community confronted a white mob, 10 whites were killed, and there was a major backlash (with the help of city government, and the KKK) to burn, shoot and cause mayhem back -- while black sniped intruders, leaving many dead and lots more injuries. Only to have this embarrassment swept under the rug by both sides for 75 years.	Cause: Government/Racism Motive: ⬅️ Left (KKK) ^[1]

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After a bunch of race riots in northern cities (Chicago, etc.), a 19 yo black shoeshiner (Dick Rowland) attacked a 17 yo white girl (Sarah Page: elevator operator).
- Context: Northern cities were as racist as the South, if not more, but it gets edited out of History by Northern publishers. White Flight, Redlining, Not renting, were all tricks invented in the North, because blacks were fleeing the South and moving North for industrialization/jobs. Part of the reason for the push by the North to get integration in the South was to staunch that flow.

Tulsa Tribune printed a story saying that Rowland had tried to rape Page, with an accompanying editorial stating that a lynching was planned for that night.

Armed black men (some WWI veterans) rushed to the police station, to prevent a possible lynching, and confronted a white crowd. Shots were fired, and 10 whites were killed (2 blacks).

Over the next two days, with the help of the city government, mob violence exploded, and whites vandalized (burned) a black neighborhood, under the sniper fire of the black residents.

This was a time when Democrats KKK was about 5% of the population of Tulsa, Tulsa was a boom oil town, and there was still segregation -- and the black area of town was quite separate and distinct.

Official deaths were 36 (10 white/26 black) -- unofficial numbers seem to have more like 300 people dead.

Tulsa, Government, Media and history books often ignored this whole event, and it was re-popularized (or recognized) 75 years later.

For the blacks, being allowed to have guns (and not having the only guns in the hands of government) likely saved them from a much worse outcome.

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