While reading on the good ol boy baggin a "Nggr" in Tulsa and sherriff friend saying honest mistake

[rafeh1]

I found this on how tulsa dealt with uppity blacks before



The Tulsa race riot was a large-scale, racially motivated conflict on May 31 and June 1, 1921, in which a group of white people attacked the black community of Tulsa, Oklahoma. It resulted in the Greenwood District, also known as 'the Black Wall Street'[1] and the wealthiest black community in the United States, being burned to the ground.

During the 16 hours of the assault, more than 800 people were admitted to local white hospitals with injuries (the two black hospitals were burned down), and police arrested and detained more than 6,000 black Greenwood residents at three local facilities.[2]:108–109 An estimated 10,000 blacks were left homeless, and 35 city blocks composed of 1,256 residences were destroyed by fire. The official count of the dead by the Oklahoma Department of Vital Statistics was 39, but other estimates of black fatalities vary from 55 to about 300.[2]:108, 228 [3]



The events of the riot were long omitted from local and state histories. "The Tulsa race riot of 1921 was rarely mentioned in history books, classrooms or even in private. Blacks and whites alike grew into middle age unaware of what had taken place."[4] With the number of survivors declining, in 1996, the state legislature commissioned a report to establish the historical record of the events, and acknowledge the victims and damages to the black community. Released in 2001, the report included the commission's recommendations for some compensatory actions, most of which were not implemented by the state and city governments. The state passed legislation to establish some scholarships for descendants of survivors, economic development of Greenwood, and a memorial park to the victims in Tulsa. The latter was dedicated in 2010.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_race_riot

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

1. We need to stomp our feet and cry like spoiled brats and INSIST on NOT voting for Hillary

if she is the nominee so we can elect a republican who believes black people should be slaves, again.


(thanks for giving me a chance to say that with your excellent OP)

[madokie]

2. I grew up 40 miles east of Tulsa

and I remember my Dad mentioning the race riot a few times but other than that I knew nothing of it until I was a grown man. It was not taught in our history classes.

[Runningdawg]

3. It may not have been in the history books

but even 50 years later the people (on both sides) who lived through it, passed the story along to their children. I heard first hand accounts from my relatives who worked in downtown Tulsa at the time. I heard how people pushed home made bombs out of private planes and about the tank at the top of Reservoir Hill. A great-aunt lived who close to the fairgrounds told me about seeing the men, in chains, being marched down the street by men on horseback. Almost everyone knew someone who lost a friend, knew someone who was missing, or had homes or business destroyed by the fires and looting.
After the riots black people in Tulsa had to have work permits. I still have an application and a page from a newspaper help wanted section showing listings advertising jobs for those with the "proper" permits.