A swarm of well-armed black thugs stormed central Tulsa and shot a white onlooker. That touched off days of bedlam. Even black apologist W.E.B. DuBois (a communist activist and co-founder of the NAACP) admitted that it was blacks from the Greenwood neighborhood that began the riot. Mr. Beyrl Ford, noted Tulsa historian, has shattered the liberal-produced myths, embraced by blacks, about the rioting and the reaction. One debunked claim was that airplanes of that era dropped "bombs" on a black neighborhood in north Tulsa. That never happened. The planes were simply observational to determine the extent of the damage.
At the time of the riot, Republican T. D. Evans was the city's mayor and, of course, Warren Harding was President. So even with good governance at the time, well, thugs will be thugs, going back to the first quarter of the 20th Century.