Dick Rollen News Today

May 30th could have happened at any point in time because tulsa was already a powder cake. we do know there are kkk members that are apart of the police force proudly marking on memorial streets on memorial day. people diabeescribing it as a massacre, i have been calling it a war. >> there is systematic causes of what happened here in 1921. we fixate on this incident involving a black girl and a white girl on an elevator. dick rollen was 19-year-old. he worked in a white shine

The tulsa tribune, the daily afternoon newspapers decides to portray this event in a different light. the tribune essentially claims that dick rollen tried to rape sarah page in do-- paige in dow tulsa. playing on the white female/black male taboo. >> the next morning tuesday may 31st, the tulsa police decide we are going to pick up dick rollen. they go to where he lives with his mother in greenwood and arrest him and take him to the courthouse and put him up on the fourth floor jail.

Of all of these, the two people we know little about, sarah paige left the day after the massacre. she left town and never came back. d dick rollen remained in jail through the summer and released in september. he received a letter from sarah paige asking not to press charges. people lost interest in him. no white person held account of the 103 deaths that occurred during the massacre. >> i never spoken to a white tulsan who admits to being apart of the riot. there is no statutes of limitations ...