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Tulsa Race Riot: A Report by the Oklahoma Commission

Oklahoma Historical Society

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  1. Political unrest · 31 May–1 June 1921

    The Tulsa Race Massacre

    Greenwood Historic District massacre landscape · United States

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    Why editors use it here

    State commission report compiling documentary evidence, eyewitness accounts, losses, and recommendations.

    1. Quick read

      On 31 May and 1 June 1921, white Tulsans attacked Greenwood, a prosperous Black district, after a Black teenager was accused of assaulting a white elevator operator.

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    2. Trigger and conditions

      Nineteen-year-old Dick Rowland encountered seventeen-year-old Sarah Page in a downtown elevator on 30 May.

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    3. Uncertainty

      No complete death register exists.

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    4. Why it matters

      Tulsa was not a spontaneous 'race riot' between equal sides.

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