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Hellraisers Journal – Sunday June 5, 1921
Tulsa, Oklahoma – Whites Burn Greenwood Section, Massacre Citizens
From The New York Age of June 4, 1921:
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Tulsa, Okla, Wednesday, June1.-Governor Robertson, in a message received here at noon proclaimed all of Tulsa county under martial law, as a result of rioting which is reported to have caused the deaths of a least seventy-five persons, mostly Negroes, and the wounding of many more.
Nearly ten square blocks of the Negro section of the city, where an armed battled has been in progress since last night, in in flames……
Detachments of guardsmen, armed with machine guns, were scattered throughout the city. Guards surrounded the armory while others assisted in rounding up Negroes and segregating them in the jail. Convention Hall, Baseball Park and other places which had been turned into prison camps…..
Three Negro families have recently come to New York from Ocmulgee [Okmulgee], Oklahoma, because of intolerable conditions there. Charlie Johnson and his wife, Lizzie, Allen Gatling and his wife, Josephine, and Mrs. Sell Harris and husband, left Ocmulgee on Saturday, May 21st. reaching New York City on the following Monday at 3 p. m. The Johnson’s home had been seized through pseudo-legal proceedings, their only return from property, worth more than $1,000, being $30. The other families had similar experiences.
Efforts to secure a more equitable adjustment had been met with the statement that the white people of Ocmulgee were determined to get rid of the colored resident. Failing to bring about their actual banishment, the story goes, with threats of a more serious nature, oppressive measures of every sort were to be applied, one being the seizing under aforesaid pseudo-legal processes, of all Negro-owned property, in desirable locations, to which any possible claim could be attached …..
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SOURCES & IMAGES
Quote Claude McKay, Fighting Back, Messenger p4, Sept 1919
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.c2904887&view=2up&seq=270
The New York Age
(New York, New York)
-June 4, 1921
https://www.newspapers.com/image/39621790/
See also:
June 4, 1921, New York Age re Tulsa Massacre
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/79042821/june-4-1921-new-york-age-re-tulsa/
June 4, 1921, New York Age-Tulsa Massacre, 75 Dead, 10 Blocks of Negro Section Destroyed
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/79040950/june-4-1921-new-york-age-tulsa/
June 4, 1921, New York Age-Oklahoma Racial Conditions Drive Families to New York from Ocmulgee
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/79041015/june-4-1921-new-york-age-oklahoma/
Tulsa Race Riot
A Report by the Oklahoma Commission
to Study the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921
February 28, 2001
https://www.okhistory.org/research/forms/freport.pdf
“A Long-Lost Manuscript Contains a Searing Eyewitness Account of the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 [by B. C. Franklin]”
-article by Allison Keyes
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/long-lost-manuscript-contains-searing-eyewitness-account-tulsa-race-massacre-1921-180959251/
Events of the Tulsa Disaster
-by Mrs. Mary E. Jones Parrish
Tulsa, 1922
http://129.244.102.213/speccoll/collections/F704T92P37%201922_Events/Events1.pdf
Mary E. Jones Parrish
https://tupress.org/author/mary-e-jones-parrish/
The Nation Must Awake
My Witness to the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921
-by Mary E. Jones Parrish
Trinity University Press, May 25, 2021
https://books.google.com/books?id=6MQpEAAAQBAJ
“The Nation Must Awake:
Our Witness to the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921”
-book review by Brenda Valdiva
https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/shows/town-square/2021/06/04/399876/the-nation-must-awake-our-witness-to-the-tulsa-race-massacre-of-1921/
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1921: The Tulsa Race Massacre, American Experience, PBS
If We Must Die – Ice-T
Poem by Claude McKay, 1919