The Tulsa Race Massacre of African Americans
The Tulsa Race Massacre of African Americans During world war 1, the influence of black americans was rising in the wall street. Black neighborhoods such as the famously known Black Wall Street of Greenwood were prospering financially. White americans were allowing this because they needed Black Americans to fight as a soldier in world war 1 on behalf of them. On 11th november of 1918 , the world war one officially ended and with this the reason for white americans to allow black americans to gain influence also ended. Now the white americans were desperate to snatch away the prosperity which the black americans gained. On May 30, 1921, Dick Rowland, a young African American shoe shiner, was falsly accused of assaulting a white elevator operator named Sarah Page in the elevator of a building in downtown Tulsa. The next day the Tulsa Tribune printed a story saying that Rowland had tried to rape Page, with an accompanying editorial stating that a...