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. Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. The Tulsa race massacre was an injustice on multiple levels. Survivor of 1921 Tulsa race massacre 100 year-old Hughes Van Ellis (2L) sit next to sister 107 year-old Viola Ford Fetcher and family members during a service at Action Chapel International church . Search for other works by this author on: Journal of American Ethnic History (2021) 40 (3): 130132. Many Black Tulsans simply disappeared. Social media was abuzz with people trying to find out more about Tulsa. The fact that after the disaster none of them were convicted of crimes vindicates that position. 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 Greenwood legend, Peg Leg Taylor, a veteran of the Spanish-American War, was said to have shot a dozen white men from a sniper position on Standpipe Hill. 726 pages. Tulsa, 1921: Reporting a Massacre Randy Krehbiel, Karlos K. Hill (Foreword) 3.83 298 ratings53 reviews In 1921 Tulsa's Greenwood District, known then as the nation's "Black Wall Street," was one of the most prosperous African American communities in the United States. Identifier: 1989-004 An artificial collection comprised of research materials from a variety of sources, including recordings, photographs. In North Tulsa, where Greenwood was located, there is not a hospital and there has not been one there since the massacre. The Bloomberg Philanthropies gave Tulsa $1 million for an expansive public art project called the Greenwood Art Project. While most mob members were not deputized, the general feeling was that they were acting under the protection of the government. It included the willful destruction of what at the time was one of the most successful Black communities in America. Turning in the direction of the scream, he saw a young black man running from the building. Black folks were shut out from the dominant white-led economy in what I call an economic detour. In 1921 Tulsa's Greenwood District, known then as the nation's "Black Wall Street," was one of the most prosperous African American communities in the United States. Other historical acts of racist terrormob attacks on Black communities in Detroit, Cincinnati, Dayton, and New Yorkoccurred prior to the Civil War. Then came another blow. Lansana, who has also authored a childrens book, Opals Greenwood Oasis, is quick to point out the scars and hurdles that continue to plague Tulsa: The legacy of Oklahoma is that the place remains deeply segregated, even today. Smitherman had chastised Blacks for allowing the lynching of Claude Chandler the year before in Oklahoma City, and he urged the men in the room to protect Rowland and themselves. 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. Rowland went inside the building to use the third-floor segregated restroom. Several Black people were tied to cars and dragged through the streets. Tulsa police officers were identified by eyewitnesses as setting fire to Black homes, shooting residents and stealing. Get the full version of this audiobook: https://audiobookscloud.com/B0851DWL7GTulsa 1921: Reporting a MassacreIn 1921, Tulsa's Greenwood District - known the. Please try again. The father of John Hope Franklin, he represented many victims claims in lawsuits seeking compensation for damage to property and business. In its preliminary recommendations, the commission suggested that the state of Oklahoma pay $33 million in restitution, some of it to the 121 surviving victims who had been located. In just a few years on or near Greenwood and Archer streets, exciting sights, sounds, and smells inspired the captions The Black Wall Street and a regular Monte Carlo.. It boasted of several restaurants, theaters, clothing shops and hotels. In June 1921 . She is a native Tulsan, co-creator of the Tulsa Syllabus and the archaeology project "Mapping Historical Trauma in Tulsa from 1921-2021." . Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 archive, 1920-2007 (formerly the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 archive, 1920-2007). To catch full episodes of all The Motley Fool's free podcasts, check out our podcast center . Forty miles north, several dozen blacks spent the night in Bartlesville's city park, guarded by members of the American Legion. Get a Britannica Premium subscription and gain access to exclusive content. I will never forget the violence of the hate mob when we left our home. Some filed insurance claims or lawsuits, but none resulted in payment due to riot clauses, the report said. Lesson Plans Black Wall Street In addition to the 24-hour destruction of the Black community by a variety of White Tulsans in . Justice in America, Randle said, is always so slow or not possible for Black people and we are made to feel crazy just for asking for things to be made right.. On the morning of June 1, 1921, a white mob numbering in the thousands marched across the railroad tracks dividing black from white in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and obliterated a black community then celebrated as one of America's most prosperous. Zola Faye Sells (H1982.052) Our country may forget this history, but I cannot.. 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. White mobacrats employed extralegal tactics to gain an advantage over Blacks, Indians, and even white union organizers. A Tulsa judge is allowing a lawsuit brought by plaintiffs including three living survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre to officially move forward. This event is in partnership with Magic City Books, Booksmart Tulsa, and The Black Wall Street Times . Randy Krehbiel has been a reporter for the Tulsa World since 1979 and now covers political and governmental affairs in Oklahoma and the United States. You do not currently have access to this content. This wasnt the case for us. Thats why, Randle said, it is important for the survivors and descendants of the massacre to recoup some restitution. Following World War I, Tulsa was recognized nationally for its affluent African American community known as the Greenwood District. O. . Many of the mob members were recently returned World War I veterans trained in the use of firearms and are said to have shot African Americans on sight. OHS-215 - Case Dockets #23347-23416, 1921. Tulsa's Greenwood district rebuilt after the massacre 100 years ago. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerethnhist.40.3.0130. . Tulsa Star via Tulsa Race Riot Photographs website. That evening mobs of both African Americans and whites descended on the courthouse where Rowland was being held. The Bloomberg Philanthropies gave Tulsa $1 million for an expansive public art project called the Greenwood Art Project. In a 1940 Works Progress Administration oral history, an ex-enslaved Creek confirmed this: I was eating out of the same pot with the Indians, . Tape 4 (1999.069.04) - interviews with Jobie Elizabeth Holderness, Eunice Jackson, Myrtle Rollerson, and Beulah Loree Smith, Most of the historic resources directly associated with Greenwood were destroyed during the massacre and many of the resources from the period of post-massacre reconstruction were destroyed by urban renewal in the 1970s. Little Africa on fire, Tulsa, Okla. Race riot, June 1st, 1921 (Library of Congress)Although not all historians agree on the actual numbers of deaths and property damage, the report by the Oklahoma Commission estimated the death toll of African Americans to be as high as 300 and damage to 191 Black-owned businesses properties in Greenwood at around $1,500,000 (the equivalent of about . 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. Led by O. OHS-203 - Analysis and Final Report. Both survived the conflict. In the commentary, the HBO producers mentioned that they lifted the idea of the bi-plane bombings from this book: "The Burning: Massacre, Destruction, and the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921.". And they mustered the strength to rebuild. 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. Earkysee Sutton (H1982.029) (Show) Current holds 0 current holds with 1 total copy. The first grocery store since the 1940s or 1950s is just now under construction in North Tulsa! A furious mob of thousands of white men then surged over Black homes, killing, destroying, and snatching everything from dining room furniture to piggy banks. The Tulsa Massacre was a result of racial animosity and mistrust within a culture 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 . By 1921, according to historian Scott Ellsworth, a revived Tulsa Ku Klux Klan claimed an active membership of 3,200. Search and view more newspapers on The Gateway to Oklahoma History. 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. After it was published, The Burning , like its subject matter . 1,142 pages. So, promises broken. When a confrontation between an armed African American man, there to protect Rowland, and a white protester resulted in the death of the latter, the white mob was incensed, and the Tulsa massacre was thus ignited. Among the counted dead was Dr. A. C. Jackson, a noted surgeon endorsed by the Mayo Clinic (the clinic acknowledged his prominence). During this 2021 centennial of the Tulsa disaster we are reminded of the shameful legacy of white racism in Tulsa and other Black communities not that long ago. Black residents never received any financial assistance after the massacre to rebuild. Tulsa had experienced rapid, dramatic change since the time white settlers first established themselves there in the 1880s. Several aspects of Tulsa's social structure served as causes of the Greenwood's destruction in 1921, including both demographic shifts and structural failures. . He is the author of Tulsas Daily World: The Story of a Newspaper and Its Town. The truth. He told his family that he had tripped over the elevator threshold and accidentally grabbed a white girl and she had screamed. True deliverance for the people of Greenwood, however, came from within, as documented in their own record of the massacre and its aftermath. The panel presented perspectives representing different aspects of the states African American community. Hear from survivors, descendants of victims and thought . As many as three hundred people, most of whom were black, died during the riot. A. Robertson dispatched the National Guard and declared martial law. Death in a promised land : the Tulsa race riot of 1921 by Scott Ellsworth; John Hope Franklin (Foreword by) Call Number: Boca Raton General Collection ; F704.T92 E44 ISBN: 9780807108789 Publication Date: 1982-02-01 Tulsa 1921 : reporting a massacre by Randy Krehbiel; Karlos K. Hill (Foreword by) Call Number: View Online ISBN: 0806163313 . NOTES. In The Black Oklahomans, Arthur B. Tolson shows that Africans, both Moors and Angolans, free and enslaved, accompanied Coronados expedition, which crossed the Oklahoma panhandle in 1541. A portrait of lawyer Buck Colbert Franklin, taken some years before he moved to Tulsa, where he opened a practice shortly before the 1921 massacre. Tape (1999.069.02) - interviews with Ernestine Gibbs, Ruby McCormick, Wes Young, Otis Clark, and Joe Burns The assembly was quiet until the arrival of the armed Negros, which precipitated and was the direct cause of the entire affair, the grand jury wrote. Enjoy a great reading experience when you buy the Kindle edition of this book. 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. In 1997 a Tulsa Race Riot Commission was formed by the state of Oklahoma to investigate the massacre and formally document the incident. 1,201 pages. The other lingering issue is how Black wealth is generally one-tenth of white wealth. Little, N. Hare, and J. Hare; The Burning: Massacre, Destruction, and the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 by Tim Madigan; Events of the Tulsa Disaster by Mary E. Jones Parrish; The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story (TV movie); The Victory of Greenwood: Horace Peg Leg Taylor, September 20, 2020, by Carlos Moreno, Tulsa Star; Tulsa Race MassacreOklahoma Digital Prairie: Documents, Images and Information., SUBSCRIBE FOR HUMANITIES MAGAZINE PRINT EDITION Browse all issuesSign up for HUMANITIES Magazine newsletter, The brief success of Harlem's own record company, Scam Advisory: Recent reports indicate that individuals are posing as the NEH on email and social media. Parrish, who miraculously escaped death as she fled through a hail of gunfire with her young daughter, wrote: The Tulsa disaster has taught great lessons to all of us, has dissipated some of our false creeds, and has revealed to us verities of which we were oblivious. A disguised light-skinned African-American Tulsan overheard an ad hoc meeting of city officials plan a Greenwood invasion that night. 1,061 pages. You could not be signed in. Sheriff McCullough, hunkered down in the County Court House, kept Dick Rowland safe as the mobs fury was aimed at a Negro revolt in Greenwood. The massacre left somewhere between 30 and 300 people dead, mostly African Americans, and destroyed Tulsas prosperous Black neighbourhood of Greenwood, known as the Black Wall Street. More than 1,400 homes and businesses were burned, and nearly 10,000 people were left homeless. IE 11 is not supported. The Tulsa Tribune then published the front-page headline Nab Negro for Attacking Girl in Elevator. Later, Walter White, who investigated the incident for the NAACP, wondered why so many were willing to believe that Rowland was foolish enough to attack a white girl on an elevator on a holiday during a time of terror. Our truth. DuBois had already warned the Black veterans of World War I, in the May 1919 issue of the, Details are difficult to gather, because many survivors of the massacre fled the city. What does this teach? But on May 31 of that year,. An estimated 300. On May 31 and June 1, 1921, a white mob set fire to the district, once known as "Black Wall Street," and killed up to 300 Black residents . while they [other enslaved Blacks] was still licking the [white] masters boots in Texas. By the turn of the century, an estimated 37 percent of the Creeks were Blackmany with land rights. The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre May 31-June 1, 2021, marked the 100th anniversary of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. Rowland went inside the building to use the third-floor segregated restroom. Late in the battle as gunfire was sporadic, Jackson walked back to his home, after attending to victims, with his hands up. 1,090 pages. The lawyer leading the charge was Buck Colbert Franklin, the father of famed historian John Hope Franklin, the late professor emeritus at Duke University. Publisher's Summary. The 1921 Tulsa Race Riot Commission was formed to investigate in 1997 and officially released a report in 2001. June 3, 1921June 10, 1921June 17, 1921June 24, 1921, The Morning Tulsa Daily WorldJune 1, 1921, extra editionJune 1, 1921, second extra editionJune 1, 1921, final edition, The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture, Oklahoma Heritage Preservation Grant Program, View the Tulsa Race Riot Commission Collection finding aid. These materials include historical accounts, text, and photographs, which may include offensive language, negative stereotypes, and descriptions of traumatic events. This article was most recently revised and updated by, https://www.britannica.com/event/Tulsa-race-massacre-of-1921, Oklahoma Historical Society - Tulsa Race Massacre, PBS LearningMedia - A History of Trauma, Violence and Suppression - Tulsa: The Fire and the Forgotten, Tulsa race massacre of 1921 - Children's Encyclopedia (Ages 8-11), Tulsa race massacre of 1921 - Student Encyclopedia (Ages 11 and up), 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Commission. Now that Tulsa has scratched its way into popular culture, it stands as a symbol of Black tragedy and also of resurrection and resilience. 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. Department of Special Collections, McFarlin Library, The University of Tulsa. For many years white Tulsans tried to forget what happened, but its much harder for the residents of Greenwood. About this ebook. But the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre is an example of the inability to transfer wealth intergenerationally because of disruptors some of these wealthy Black men, their wealth was lost in the massacre, and it was not restored.. The destruction of Greenwood and the assault on its citizens, beginning on May 31, 1921, was called the worst public disturbance since the Civil War. In April 2002 a private religious charity, the Tulsa Metropolitan Ministry, paid a total of $28,000 to the survivors, a little more than $200 each, using funds raised from private donations. Among African Americans, however, the memory had not completely faded. North Greenwood Ave. in Tulsa, Okla., prior to the 1921 Tulsa massacre. 1,186 pages. Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions. Some survivors even claimed that people in airplanes dropped incendiary bombs. Oklahoma Historical Society Oral History Collection InterviewsThis list includes interviews from the 1980s with survivors or individuals who recall the Tulsa Race Massacre. You have a really successful Black business community across the Frisco tracks, literally across the tracks from downtown Tulsa, said Johnson, the education chair for the Centennial Commission. Summary. In July of 2020, the Greenwood Community Development Corporation in Tulsa, Oklahoma, received an NEH grant to reopen and prepare its historic site for visitors to return. Only in 2020, 99 years after the fact, did the Greenwood massacre become part of the Oklahoma school curriculum! 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. Learn More. Ottawa W. Gurley (known as O. 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. 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 . It was, then and now, among the bloodiest outbreaks of racist violence in U.S. history. So they created their own insular economy in the Greenwood district and blossomed because dollars were able to circulate and recirculate within the confines of the community because there really was not much of an option, given the segregation that existed here and elsewhere.. As city streets throbbed with protests (and what some might call uprisings) during the summer of 2020, two science fiction dramas recalled the massacre of Tulsa, Oklahoma, which took place 100 years ago this spring. Notes, bibliography, and index. Over 24 hours, Tulsa witnessed what is thought to be the worst single event of white supremacist violence against African Americans in the nation's history. Language. W.E.B. The Burning: Massacre, Destruction, and the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921. The other thing that happened post-massacre there are a lot of promises made by local leaders, these are white men, about rebuilding the Greenwood community, and they didn't really materialize. The most significant lesson it has taught me is that the love of race is the deepest feeling rooted in our being. View in National Archives Catalog WASHINGTON, May 3, 2021 A century ago this month, the Greenwood District of Tulsa, OK, known as "Black Wall Street," was ablaze. African-American men being detained and led down a residential street on June 1, 1921 in Tulsa, Okla. Detainees being marched through downtown Tulsa, Okla., on June 1, 1921, viewed from the roof of the Daniel Building. to this report. Although they had survived one of the deadliest race massacres in U.S. history and their district was demolished, many residents returned. Dreisen Heath, a researcher at Human Rights Watch who authored the report, said law enforcements involvement in the massacre illustrates the demands of racial justice movements a century later. O.W. B. Mann, a WWI veteran and veritable giant, led a valiant fight by sniping the rioters from Mt. African Americans had been around Oklahoma for a long time. OHS-201 - Commission Information and Research. 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 1942, over 200 Black businesses were operating in Greenwood. Post-Civil War massacres in New Orleans, Memphis, Wilmington, Charleston, the Atlanta, Georgia, massacre (1906), the Elaine, Arkansas, massacre (1919), and the Rosewood, Florida, massacre (1923) have been buried deep in the record, ignored in mainstream history books, and lost to national memory. 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. DuBois had visited Tulsa in March as the NAACP protested the gruesome lynching of Henry Lowery in Arkansas. The Tulsa massacre, the New York Times has noted, has gone from "virtually unknown to emblematic with impressive speed." Its own film critics have suggested watching all three new documentaries about the day in 1921 when the entire Black community was burned to the ground by rioting white Tulsa residents, with as many as 300 people killed. Gurley, a wealthy Black landowner, purchased 40 acres of land in Tulsa in 1906 and named the area Greenwood. I was told we had to leave and that was it. A Mississippi native who had come to Tulsa via Rochester, Parrish has disappeared from the record. Johnson said the inability of Black people to accumulate wealth and transfer it intergenerationally is the root cause. Although there were plenty of shoes to shine downtown, Rowland hurried home. The building was demolished in 1924 to expand the First National Bank. The legacy of the Tulsa Race Massacre and Tulsa's path forward. TULSA RACE MASSACRE. Tulsa Race Massacre descendant Heather Nash, left, yells at Brenda Alford, 1921 Graves Public Oversight Committee member, and forensic anthropologist Dr. Phoebe Stubblefield as remains from a mass . 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. By continuing to use our website, you are agreeing to, https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerethnhist.40.3.0130, These People Have Always Been a Republic: Indigenous Electorates in the U.S.Mexico Borderlands, 15981912, Troublemakers: Students Rights and Racial Justice in the Long 1960s. Beginning on June 26, 1921, the Tulsa grand jury findings were published in newspapers. But the ethos and bond that empowered residents to rebuild the community was strong. Watchmen and Lovecraft Country, both on HBO, filled television screens with imagery of Tulsas Black neighborhood of GreenwoodBooker T. Washington nicknamed it Negro Wall Street, which morphed into Black Wall Streetas it was shot up, torched, and bombed from the air by white vigilantes. Articles from Britannica Encyclopedias for elementary and high school students. The devil courts said we were too late. Members of the commission gathered accounts of survivors who were still alive, documents from individuals who witnessed the massacre but had since died, and other historical evidence. Tulsa, 1921: Reporting a Massacre by Randy Krehbiel It was the same along virtually every road leading east of Greenwood. Were going to go downtown and stop this lynching. True to their word, an armed contingent of 25 Black men went to the Tulsa County Courthouse. 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. The commissions final report was published on February 28, 2001. The book contains first-person accounts of survivors, but it is said that only two dozen copies were printed. 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 1921 Attack on Greenwood was one of the most significant events in Tulsa's history. The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Commission "The projects of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Commission will educate Oklahomans and Americans about the Race Massacre and its impact on the state and nation; remember its victims and survivors; and create an environment conducive to fostering sustainable entrepreneurship and heritage tourism within the Greenwood District . The event never received widespread attention and was long noticeably absent from the history books used to teach Oklahoma schoolchildren. The all-white jury indicted more than 85 people, who were mostly Black. Black Wall Street did, eventually, rise from the ashes and Greenwood enjoyed another heyday in the 1940s, but integration and urban renewal in the 1960s and the 1970s led to new declines the neighborhood was unable to fully overcome, Johnson said. Smitherman and his brother John, a deputy sheriff. When first published in 2001, society apparently wasn't ready for such an unstinting narrative. Over the course of three days, dead bodies were stacked up on trucks and railroad cars and buried in secret around the city by white aggressors. Later that night, the armed Black men returned to protect Rowland and a fight broke out when a white man tried to disarm a Black man, prompting shooting that lasted through the night, the report said. A woman walks past a "Black Wall Street" mural during Juneteenth celebrations in the Greenwood district of Tulsa, the site of the 1921 race massacre, on June 19, 2020. . Ethelyn Gimlin (H1983.109) Four sites were identified in the City's examination: Oaklawn Cemetery, Newblock Park, an additional area near Newblock Park, and Rolling Oaks Memorial . There was no mob spirit among the whites, no talk of lynching and no arms. Every year the Tulsa Equality Indicator report comes out and it reveals and outlines alarming disparities along racial lines from policing to the life expectancy. The difference in mortality rate in North Tulsa is 11 percent fewer years than whites in South Tulsa. Sources: The Tulsa World has published many articles that were examined for the writing of this piece; Tulsa History Museum digital exhibit 1921 Tulsa Race MassacreTulsa Historical Society & Museum; A Long-Lost Manuscript Contains a Searing Eyewitness Account of the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 May 27, 2016, Smithsonian magazine; Death in a Promised Land: The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 by Scott Ellsworth; From Slaves to Soldiers and Beyond by Tina Cahalan Jones; Tulsa, 1921: Reporting a Massacre by Randy Krehbiel and Karlos K. Hill; Fire on Mount Zion: My Life and History As a Black Woman in America by M. B. 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. Before emancipation, Blacks enslaved by the Indians fared better than those enslaved by whites. 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