Exactly right. As with much of what we’re taught about certain episodes in history, it’s a mishmash of fairy tales and outright lies. The Tulsa riots started with the arrest of a young black man for assaulting a white girl or woman. Rumors swept thru the local black community like wildfire and a small group of riled up black men marched to the jail. They were told why the young man was arrested, and they left. But emotions continued to run high in the black community, and soon an even larger group of armed black men gathered and marched four-abreast back to the jail. They were loaded for bear, and the shooting soon began.
Years later some of those who were supposedly killed in the riots were seen alive.
A surprisingly good summary is found here, considering the source:
There was also an armed militant leftist black group, called something like the African Blood Brotherhood, on one side and the KKK then appearing on the other. Law and order was pretty fragile there….Tulsa made its living off of prostitution, bootlegging and gambling, and a white man had been lynched by a mob about a year earlier…after they had dragged him out of police custody. So consider the situation.