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First victim of 1921 Tulsa massacre of Black community is identified since graves found, mayor says
AP News ^ | July 12, 2024 | KEN MILLER

Posted on 07/12/2024 2:03:29 PM PDT by Texan4Life

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To: KC Burke

The area south of 62 was known as KKK until even the 80’s


21 posted on 07/12/2024 2:45:58 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: Texan4Life

First, it was a race riot, not a “massacre.”
Second, the whole thing got started b/c a black elevator operator tried to rape a white female.
Third, members of the black community shot and killed whites b/c they feared that a lynching might occur, i.e., the black folks started the violence.
BTW, the black-owned newspaper in the area acknowledged that blacks fired the first shots.
We need to stop letting these idiots rewrite history.


22 posted on 07/12/2024 2:48:48 PM PDT by bort
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To: NWFree

Democrats being Democrats.


23 posted on 07/12/2024 3:11:21 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING AMERICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: escapefromboston; All

Interesting, that as the South became more Republican, it became more Conservative and LESS Racist. Like EVERYTHING ELSE Liberals and Leftists lie about the past. MANY Segregationist Southern Senators were Liberals.


24 posted on 07/12/2024 3:15:22 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING AMERICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: Texan4Life

The Tulsa Race War started when a group of blacks fired rifles into a white crowd, killing several.


25 posted on 07/12/2024 3:30:24 PM PDT by SauronOfMordor (Either you will rule. Or you will be ruled. There is no other choice.)
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To: KC Burke

One previous poster use to always insist that Moffitt was off limits for all military personnel from Camp Chaffee. Downtown Moffit is mostly one huge automobile graveyard used part demolition yard. The stockyard is still in the same place near the Okla. bridge crossing. With one exception on Garrison Ave. in Fort Smith, the Justice Parker effect was mostly beneficial locally—not so much in South Sebastian County and across the Arkansas River South of Van Buren.


26 posted on 07/12/2024 3:48:26 PM PDT by Scram1
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To: Vermont Lt

It was a Ultra Conservative President- Warren Harding, who went to the South and said thatSegregation must end.


27 posted on 07/12/2024 4:20:50 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING AMERICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: Texan4Life

Pick, pick, pick at that scab until it festers some more.


28 posted on 07/12/2024 5:31:25 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (The Government that got us in this mess is not the Government that can get us out of it.)
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To: Texan4Life
An interesting (long) article on one of the two main characters, Sarah Page.

A non-event blown out of proportion by personal agendas and a corrupted power structure.

https://www.centerforpublicsecrets.org/post/the-notorious-sarah-page

excerpts:

On Memorial Day 1921, a young, white Tulsa, Oklahoma elevator operator named Sarah Page had a confrontation with a black teenager named Dick Roland. The incident in Tulsa’s downtown Drexel Building soon spiraled into the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921. Much like Roland himself, Page remains known today only through the accumulated legend of sparse news articles and the speculations of historians. As it turns out, most of Sarah Page’s legend is untrue. Fortunately, it is now possible to meet the real person at the center of Tulsa’s race war.

...A day later, the likely cause of the elevator rage was transformed into the Tulsa Tribune’s tale of attempted sexual violence. Sarah’s aggressive purse-wielding was replaced by a hapless young orphan’s scratched face and torn clothes. The Tribune’s managing editor later admitted that these inflammatory claims were untrue. Sarah Page was not responsible for inventing them. She did not mention them to her neighbor Anna Green. Green didn’t mention them in her interview with the Tribune. The police talked to Sarah on Monday and would have noticed scratches. A torn dress or blouse would have been Exhibit A. According to the police, Sarah denied those claims on Tuesday, June 1, and had not filed charges against Roland as of June 2.

...If neither Sarah Page nor Clarence Poulton were responsible for inflating the story, then who was? All trails lead to the 1921 Tulsa police force, headed by chief John Gustafson.

The police were likely telling the truth in the beginning when they claimed that they were far from convinced a crime had been committed on Monday. They were also likely telling the truth at the end, when they announced on Wednesday that Page had denied the Nab Negro article was true in its details and, further, that Page’s version was substantially the same as Roland’s. It was in the middle where they lied.

...Chief of Detectives Jim Patton headed the investigation. On Wednesday, while the embers still glowed in Greenwood, he delivered a statement to the Daily World calling Jones’ Nab Negro article yellow journalism, colored and untrue, and as having incited a disastrous racial spirit. Patton concluded that “If the facts in the story as told the police had only been printed I do not think there would have been an (sic) riot whatever.”

...In other words, if the Tribune had only printed Sarah Page’s story, there would have been no event now called the Tulsa Race Massacre.

29 posted on 07/12/2024 5:59:20 PM PDT by yelostar (TRUMP and only TRUMP 2024)
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To: BenLurkin
When I moved to Tulsa in 2005 it was, and had always been, the Tulsa Race Riot.

Only recently did the race pimps, our liberal lying journalists, and the black community (with "reparations" on the brain), renamed it a race massacre.

30 posted on 07/12/2024 6:44:42 PM PDT by LouAvul (DEI = Didn't Earn It. )
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To: yelostar
Another important point is that there was a new afternoon/evening paper in Tulsa sensationalizing stories to sell papers. That day’s issue had a front page story and an inside option piece / editorial. I think there is a copy of the article somewhere. However no known copy of the editorial exists. The copy of the day’s edition in the library has it cut out.

For decades Tulsa ignored the disturbance so the city could develop. Now leftist elements are using it to stir strife.

31 posted on 07/12/2024 7:01:43 PM PDT by The Truth Will Make You Free
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To: ssapro

another holiday given to celebrate by the killing of each other resent day


32 posted on 07/13/2024 3:13:32 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: yelostar

So in other words the media lied and people died.

When are we going to hold these liars and murderers acountable?


33 posted on 07/13/2024 10:37:22 AM PDT by Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi ( Gen. 12:3: a warning to all antisemites)
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