zoneag said:
The claim that hundreds were murdered in Tulsa is dubious at best. They've been looking for "mass graves" for years with no results. And it's only in recent years that it's been called a massacre instead of a riot. I guess that plays better.
93MarineHorn said:Wow, the race hustlers never brought up this little nugget. One year prior a white man had been lynched which was part of the reason for all the bad blood.Quote:
The massacre began during Memorial Day weekend after 19-year-old Dick Rowland, a black shoeshiner, was accused of assaulting Sarah Page, a white 17-year-old elevator operator in the nearby Drexel Building.[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_race_massacre#cite_note-25][25][/url] He was arrested and rumors that he was to be lynched were spread throughout the city, where a white man named Roy Belton had been lynched the previous year. Upon hearing reports that a mob of hundreds of white men had gathered around the jail where Rowland was being held, a group of 75 black men, some armed, arrived at the jail to protect Rowland. The sheriff persuaded the group to leave the jail, assuring them that he had the situation under control.
Edit- Belton was actually lynched by a white mob, not black. Blacks were aware of this and reasoned that if a white man could be lynched, a black man certainly could, too.
