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It began after Memorial Day, when 19 yr old Dick Rowland, a black shoe shiner, was accused of assaulting Sarah Page, a 21 yr old white elevator operator in the Drexel building. He was arrested and rumours about being lynched, caused groups of both black and white men to come near the jail. However heated exchanges led to firing, as it exploded into mob violence.
Around 10,000 black people were left homeless, in the violence that followed, which finally ended on June 1, after martial law was imposed. Most of the survivors left Tulsa, while those who stayed preferred not to talk about the incidents.
You don’t get the nickname Black Wallstreet for being “relatively” prosperous. This area was extremely prosperous “the cost of the property damage amounted to more than $1.5 million in real estate and $750,000 in personal property (equivalent to $38.43 million in 2023)”. Remember this is during The Great Depression.
EDIT The Great Depression did NOT start until 1929
I was dead wrong about that. Fixed it
Thank you I really appreciate you saying so.
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Okay I was wrong about that thank you for calling that out