When I lived in Tulsa, I knew a Black man who was a witness to the incident. He was coming to Tulsa from Muskogee and was warned about what was happening. He delayed his entrance to Tulsa until it was mostly over.
From what he told me I think the 300 number was probably correct or even understated. There was a lot of White victims too. He said they even used airplanes and strafed and dropped “turpentine bombs” on them.
I am unsure who was ultimately at fault but I tend to think the Blacks were more so. At the least they were equally to blame.
Wrong! Your "Black Man" was lying. See my post earlier in this thread. As is the norm today, whites were victimized by blacks. It's true in 2014 and was true 93 years ago in Tulsa.
How do you know your “witness” is telling the truth? I’ve read articles about the riot, but nobody has yet determined how many people were actually killed. The old guy’s statements sound like the ones made after Hurricane Katrina where people swore the dikes were dynamited by Bush and Cheney. Sorry, we’ll need more data than the “testimony” of a single person who admitted he didn’t see a lot of the purported violence.