Tulsa, 1921: Reporting a Massacre by Randy Krehbiel It was the same along virtually every road leading east of Greenwood. At the time, Greenwood was very likely the most prosperous Black community in the country, and Tulsa, the Magic City, was one of Americas fastest-growing cities, an oil boomtown, following the 1905 discovery of the Glenn Pool Oil Reserve 15 miles south of town. As the white mob reached nearly a thousand, a new contingent of 50 or more Black men, feeling anxious, arrived to protect Rowland, but they, too, were persuaded to leave at about 10:30 p.m. Then, as they walked awayaccording to Scott Ellsworths interview with seventy-eight-year-old survivor Robert FairchildE. From the terror of 31 May 1921 to. Corner of Greenwood and Archer devastated in Tulsa, Okla., on June 1, 1921. The most significant lesson it has taught me is that the love of race is the deepest feeling rooted in our being. Tulsas Greenwood Cultural Center tabulates that in the span of 24 hours 35 city blocks of Black Wall Street were burned to the ground. Black people had money and needed places to spend it. The panel presented perspectives representing different aspects of the states African American community. Please try again. 1,070 pages. Use the links below to listen on YouTube. Madigan did extensive research on the survivors in order to tell the stories of the lead up to the event, the actual race riot, the . The mission of this organization was to study and provide a report of the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 that would also help to give reparations for the tragic losses of those from the Greenwood District. What little we had would be stolen from us, Ellis told the committee. Our truth. The final grand jury report agreed with the Tulsa City Commission that Black people were the main culprits. In North Tulsa, where Greenwood was located, there is not a hospital and there has not been one there since the massacre. It will air in May 2021, on the centennial of what's known as one of the worst incidents in American history of racial violence against Black people. Named for historian and civil rights advocate John Hope Franklin, whose father survived the massacre, the park features the Tower of Reconciliation, a 25-foot- (7.5-metre-) tall sculpture that commemorates African American struggle. The exhibition will feature 33 Oklahoma-based artists. Four sites were identified in the City's examination: Oaklawn Cemetery, Newblock Park, an additional area near Newblock Park, and Rolling Oaks Memorial . But the words, an eyewitness account of the May 31, 1921, racial massacre that destroyed what was known as Tulsa, Oklahoma's "Black Wall Street," are searing. The Guard helped round up and disarm at least four thousand African Americansmen, women, and childrenand marched them at gunpoint to makeshift detention camps at the Tulsa Convention Center and the McNulty Baseball Park as the mob in the early hours looted their homes. OHS-215 - Case Dockets #23347-23416, 1921. It was, then and now, among the bloodiest outbreaks of racist violence in U.S. history. 1,229 pages. This page includes Oklahoma Historical Society resources and collections that chronicle this devastating event in our states history. Tulsa Race Riot Commission Established, Renamed Sources During the Tulsa Race Massacre, which occurred over 18 hours from May 31 to June 1, 1921, a white mob attacked residents, homes and. These do not necessarily represent the viewpoints of the Oklahoma Historical Society. We are asking for justice for a lifetime of ongoing harm.. Greenwood Rising, a history centre honouring Black Wall Street, memorializing the victims of the massacre, and telling its story, was established in 2021 by the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Commission, founded in 2015. Hannibal B. Johnson, esquire, is chair of the Education Committee for the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Commission and local curator of Greenwood Rising. . The Tulsa Massacre was a result of racial animosity and mistrust within a culture Tulsa's Greenwood district rebuilt after the massacre 100 years ago. You have an incident like that, then the breach in trust is huge. Here I am, said Jackson. What the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Destroyed - The New York Times A century ago, a prosperous Black neighborhood in Tulsa, Okla., perished at the hands of a violent white mob. He was born in Huntsville, Alabama, on Christmas Day in 1868, and educated in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. Includes an All-New Afterword. The destruction also included many businesses and community institutions: four hotels, eight churches, seven grocery stores, two Black hospitals, two candy stores, two pool halls, two Masonic lodges, real estate offices, undertakers, barber and beauty shops, doctors offices, drugstores, auto garages, and choc joints. I still see Black businesses being burned. Several Black people were tied to cars and dragged through the streets. The lawyer leading the charge was Buck Colbert Franklin, the father of famed historian John Hope Franklin, the late professor emeritus at Duke University. Thousands of African-American families moved in and helped found 30 Black towns, including Boley, Clearview, Tatum, Lima, and Langston, where McCabe himself helped found Langston College in 1897. View the Tulsa Race Riot Commission Collection finding aidThe Tulsa Race Riot Commission was created by the Oklahoma Legislature in 1997 under HB 2468. Notes, bibliography, and index. The Tulsa Race Massacre of May 31-June 1, 1921 was one of the deadliest attacks on an African American community in U.S. history. The lawsuit details evidence that officials with the city of Tulsa, including police, participated in the violence of 1921 and connects that to the city's use of the massacre as a way to promote . 2006.018. Among the counted dead was Dr. A. C. Jackson, a noted surgeon endorsed by the Mayo Clinic (the clinic acknowledged his prominence). The population grew to 11,000 and the area became an economic powerhouse affectionately called Black Wall Street.. Postcards, issued in 1911, featured the hanging of African-American farm wife Laura Nelson and her castrated son from a bridge in Okemah, Oklahomaan event that later inspired the activism of Woody Guthrie. That evening mobs of both African Americans and whites descended on the courthouse where Rowland was being held. According to Tim Madigans The Burning: Massacre, Destruction, and the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921, retired white Judge John Oliphant, Jacksons neighbor, testified that two young men trained their guns on the physician. These materials include historical accounts, text, and photographs, which may include offensive language, negative stereotypes, and descriptions of traumatic events. Despite its severity and destructiveness, the Tulsa race massacre was barely mentioned in history books until the late 1990s, when a state commission was formed to document the incident. Today marks 101 years since the Tulsa Race Massacre. May 28, 2021 A century after armed white mobs killed between 100 and 300 Black people and destroyed Greenwood, a prominent Black community in Oklahoma, Americans are still grappling with the Tulsa Race Massacre of May 31 and June 1, 1921. Tape 1 (1999.069.01) - introduction by Eddie Faye Gates, and interviews with George Monroe, Lola Streeter-Jackson, Veneice Dunn-Simms, Kenny Booker, Edward Lett, and Ernestine Gibbs I think some readers are missing the point of this book: it's coverage *of the reporting* of the massacre, just like it says in the subtitle. OHS-202 - Documentation, Database, and Correspondence. In 2018, Radio Diaries in New York City received a $350,000 grant from NEH to support several episodes of its historical radio program and podcast, one of which, Surviving the Tulsa Race Riot, told the story of the Tulsa Race Massacre through the life and memories of Olivia Hooker, who was just six years old in 1921. Shortly after the massacre there was a brief official inquiry, but documents related to the massacre disappeared soon afterward. Legacy of the Tulsa Race Massacre Roundtable Discussion (2021)Legacy of the Tulsa Race Massacre was a roundtable discussion focused on how race relations developed in Oklahoma after one of the states most horrific events, the Tulsa Race Massacre. Eyewitnesses saw women being chased from their homes nakedsome with babies in their armsas volleys of shots were fired at them. Karlos K. Hill is Associate Professor of African and African American History at the University of Oklahoma and the author of Beyond the Rope: The Impact of Lynching on Black Culture and Memory. Tulsa had experienced rapid, dramatic change since the time white settlers first established themselves there in the 1880s. Only in 2020, 99 years after the fact, did the Greenwood massacre become part of the Oklahoma school curriculum! Biplanes dropped fiery turpentine bombs from the night skies onto their rooftopsthe first aerial bombing of an American city in history. Tulsa is one city, but back then it was two, "Little Africa" is what some . May 31June 1, 2021, marked the 100th anniversary of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. All we are asking for is for the chance to be treated like a first-class citizen, that this is the land where there is liberty and justice for all. The other lingering issue is how Black wealth is generally one-tenth of white wealth. The book contains first-person accounts of survivors, but it is said that only two dozen copies were printed. Several aspects of Tulsa's social structure served as causes of the Greenwood's destruction in 1921, including both demographic shifts and structural failures. The only African American in the legislature, Currin authored Oklahomas first civil rights bill, which lost ratification by one vote as the territorial government proceeded to disenfranchise Blacks and pass its first Jim Crow laws. The two-day attack led by a White mob resulted in the deaths of as many as 300 . The mob broke into downtown (white-owned) pawnshops and hardware stores to steal weapons and bullets. Some have waited decades to find out where the mass graves . Old World War I airplanes dropped bombs on Greenwood, with the mob fatally shooting Black people and looting and burning their homes and businesses. Tulsa, 1921: Reporting a Massacre. Then according to several chroniclers, all hell broke loose, as the mob engaged the retreating Black men in a pitched gun battle that inched its way north toward the Frisco Railroad tracks that separated downtown from Deep Greenwood. It also had luxury shops, restaurants, grocery stores, hotels, jewelry and clothing stores, movie theaters, barbershops and salons, pool halls, nightclubs and offices for doctors, lawyers and dentists. This time, the police, fearing a lynching, moved Rowland from the regular jail to the top floor of the Tulsa County Courthouse for safekeeping. They were issued identification tags and remained at the camps some for months and could not leave without their tags and permission from white supervisors, the report said. In addition to the 24-hour destruction of the Black community by a variety of White Tulsans in . S. MacQueen, a bailiff and failed candidate for sheriff, grabbed a tall Black mans .45-caliber Army-issue handgun, leading to this exchange: N, where are you going with that pistol?. OHS-201 - Commission Information and Research. Journal of American Ethnic History 1 January 2021; 40 (3): 130132. In other words, when they approached the gate of economic opportunity at the white dominated downtown Tulsa economy, they were turned away. An estimated 300 people were killed within the districts 35 square blocks, burning to the ground more than 1,200 homes, at least 60 businesses, dozens of churches, a school, a hospital and a public library, according to a report issued by Human Rights Watch. Library. Tulsa police commissioner J. M. Adkison and police chief John Gustafson were under pressure to keep law and order in the rough and tumble boomtown. It happened during one of the worst periods of racially motivated violence against Black Americans, the years immediately following the end of World War I in 1918. This riot is covered extensively in Elliot M. Rudwick, Race Riot at East St. Louis, July 2, 1917 (Cleveland: World Publishing Co., 1966), and mentioned in the Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (New York: Bantam Books, 1968), 217-18, hereafter referred to as Report on Civil Disorders, and in Alex L. Swan, "The Politics of Identification, a Perspective of . This site uses cookies. In 1997 a Tulsa Race Riot Commission was formed by the state of Oklahoma to investigate the massacre and formally document the incident. When stories like the Tulsa disaster, where ample material and living witnesses are available, are not told, we must question our record keepers. Randi Richardson reports for TODAY Digital and NBC BLK from New York. The night of the massacre, I was awakened by my family. Kweku Larry Crowe is an independent researcher from Dayton, Ohio. The Greenwood district in Tulsa, Okla., prior to the 1921 massacre. Now that Tulsa has scratched its way into popular culture, it stands as a symbol of Black tragedy and also of resurrection and resilience. By Randy Krehbiel. No one in the white mob was prosecuted or otherwise punished for the massacre, the report said. Before emancipation, Blacks enslaved by the Indians fared better than those enslaved by whites. Tulsa police officers arrested Dick Rowland, a Black 19-year-old, May 31, 1921 for allegedly assaulting a white girl, the report said, but there was little evidential proof. Many Black Tulsans simply disappeared. The event never received widespread attention and was long noticeably absent from the history books used to teach Oklahoma schoolchildren. Take me. Dont shoot him! While most mob members were not deputized, the general feeling was that they were acting under the protection of the government. On May 30, 1921, Dick Rowland, a young African American shoe shiner, was accused of assaulting a white elevator operator named Sarah Page in the elevator of a building in downtown Tulsa. Statewide, 43 percent of Black people own their homes compared to 72 percent of white people. Self - 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Survivor John W. Franklin Self - Managing Partner at Franklin Global LLC Karlos K. Hill Self - Department Chair and Professor at University of Oklahoma Hannibal Johnson Self - Education Chair for 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial (as Hannibal B. Johnson) George Monroe Self - 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Survivor By 1919, white civic leaders sought Greenwoods land for a railroad depot or other uses. True deliverance for the people of Greenwood, however, came from within, as documented in their own record of the massacre and its aftermath. Before May 31, 1921, Tulsa's black business district known as Greenwood flourished in spite of segregation. Fletcher's brother Hughes Van Ellis, 100, and a World War II veteran, said his childhood was hard as his family recovered from the massacre. Mary E. Jones Parrish said that the Greenwood men defended the Frisco Tracks like a stone wall, until they exhausted their ammunition. It boasted of several restaurants, theaters, clothing shops and hotels. Part of the 2021 Oklahoma History Conference, this presentation gives an overview of the Greenwood District, the Tulsa Race Massacre, the districts recovery, and the marking of the massacres 100th anniversary. Tulsa race massacre of 1921, also called Tulsa race riot of 1921, one of the most severe incidents of racial violence in U.S. history. TULSA 1921: Reporting A Massacre Monday, September 30th, 7:00 - 8:30 pm Tulsa World reporter Randy Krehbiel in conversation with Nehemiah D. Frank, Founder and Editor of The Black Wall Street Times. We are not asking for a handout, Ellis said through tears. Moderated by J. D. Baker, special assistant to Oklahoma City Mayor Holt, the panel included Brenda Alford, who shared her familys story of surviving the Tulsa Race Massacre; Oklahoma State University professor Dr. The white mob grew to more than 2,000 and Tulsa police did not disperse the crowd. On average, North Tulsans live 14 years less than South Tulsans. I still hear airplanes flying overhead. It all started on Monday morning, May 30, 1921, when a nineteen-year-old African-American shoeshine named Dick Rowland was working at a stand in front of the Drexel Building in downtown Tulsa. That harm includes the city of Tulsa faulting Greenwood residents for the damage. DuBois had visited Tulsa in March as the NAACP protested the gruesome lynching of Henry Lowery in Arkansas. Rowland went inside the building to use the third-floor segregated restroom. Read More Krehbiel, Randy,(author.). John Williams, originally from Mississippi, opened an automobile repair shop and then Williams Dreamland Theatre, offering live stage shows and silent films, in addition to the air-conditioned Williams Confectionery. Johnson said there are two main casualties of the massacre that contribute to these discrepancies and affect everyday life a breach in trust between Black and white communities and the inability to transfer accumulated wealth. Also in August 1920, in Oklahoma City, an eighteen-year-old Black youth, Claude Chandler, was lynched by a mob that featured the future mayor of Oklahoma City, O. This event is in partnership with Magic City Books, Booksmart Tulsa, and The Black Wall Street Times . The Williams Building, no.2 on Greenwood Ave., site of the Dreamland Theater, June 1, 1921, in Tulsa, Okla. Department of Special Collections, McFarlin Library, The University of Tulsa. Even those who worked outside of Greenwood only spent their money in the area, reinvesting in the neighborhood, he said. These PDFs contain thousands of pages from the Tulsa Race Riot Commission Collection. Massacre and Greenwood Rising Department of Special Collections, McFarlin Library, The University of Tulsa. B. Mann, of Mann Brothers Grocery Store, and Black Deputy County Sheriff J. K. Smitherman (A. J.s brother), they offered their assistance to Sheriff Willard McCullough, but he persuaded them to leave. Quraysh Ali Lansana, an Oklahoma native and the acting director of the Center for Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation at Oklahoma State University, Tulsa, is helping organize an exhibition about the historic Black Wall Street neighborhood, its destruction and its rebirth, for Tulsas Philbrook Museum of Art with Tri-City Collective. The Oklahoma National Guard, called in by the governor to restore order, did so by joining the fray against the outnumbered and outgunned Black community. On Friday, February 27 from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., TU will host the panel discussion "Black Wall Street and the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre" to explore the success of Black Wall Street before the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. And they mustered the strength to rebuild. Thomas and Mary Hamilton (H1984.019) The legacy of the Tulsa Race Massacre and Tulsa's path forward. The Tulsa Race. appearance, and a sprinkling of trappers, hunters, half-breeds, creoles and negroes of every hue. Black families, enslaved and freed, were among the Lochapoka Creeks, who were forced from Alabama during the Trail of Tears and founded Tulsa in 1836. Tulsa police officers were identified by eyewitnesses as setting fire to Black homes, shooting residents and stealing. The text of this article is only available as a PDF. So, promises broken. From May 31 to June 1, mobs of white Tulsa residents ransacked, pillaged, bombed, and burned over 1,000 homes, businesses, and churches and murdered scores of African Americans in the Tulsa's Black community of Greenwood. Oklahoma Historical Society Oral History Collection InterviewsThis list includes interviews from the 1980s with survivors or individuals who recall the Tulsa Race Massacre. Two of the last known survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Viola Fletcher, 108, and Hughes Van Ellis, 102 became citizens of Ghana in a ceremony Tuesday. You have white people, some of whom are not doing well economically, who can look across those tracks and see Black people living in homes, driving cars, furnishing their homes with pianos, women wearing furs, all the trappings of economic success. A Negro was a Negro on that day and was forced to march with his hands up for blocks. 1,061 pages. An unflinching account of America's most horrific racial massacre, The Burning is essential reading as America finally comes to terms with its racial past. The next day the 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. Arsonists reportedly waited for white women to fill bags with household loot before setting homes on fire. By the 1880s, under the leadership of African-American attorney Edwin P. McCabe, a former clerk for the United States Treasury Department, Blacks formed Oklahoma clubs and worked to make Oklahoma an all-Black state. Ottawa W. Gurley (known as O. Scholars used the accounts of witnesses and ground-piercing radar to locate a potential mass grave just outside Tulsas Oaklawn Cemetery, suggesting the death toll may be much higher than the original records indicate. Theres really no way of knowing exactly how many people died. North Greenwood Ave. in Tulsa, Okla., prior to the 1921 Tulsa massacre. The white mob blocked firefighters while 1,256 homes were destroyed and another 400 were looted. IE 11 is not supported. The exhibition will feature 33 Oklahoma-based artists. I never made much money, she said. At least $1.4 million in damages were claimed after the massacre, or about $25 million in todays dollars, after controlling for inflation and the current economy, but experts say its an underestimation. NOTES. Both survived the conflict. The violence of Tulsa Race Massacre was not unique for its time, but was one among a series of mob attacks carried out against Black communities in the early 20 th century. A number of the massacres that happen that are normally coined as a riot Memphis, Chicago, those are all places where you also have documentation of police participation and being deputized, she said. Greenwood is just outside of North Tulsa, which is mostly Black, while South Tulsa is a mostly white area. I lost myself in Tulsa in 1921 yesterday afternoon and into the evening. 2156, which would prevent most of the victims from rebuilding and the insurance companies from paying for damage caused by the massacre, even as white pawnshop and hardware store owners were compensated for damages to their shops. Stover traveled to Oklahoma before and during the coronavirus pandemic to interview scientists and . Little Africa on fire, Tulsa, Okla. 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