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black entrepreneurship. people call it the black wall street. >> like putting harlem, bourbon street, and chocolate city all in one place. >> but white paulsons talked about it as little africa or land. >> tulsa was a powder keg, needing only something to set the community alight. between 100 and 300 people, most of them black, were killed. today we call it a massacre. they were hastily trying to get rid of the bodies. by dumping them in mass graves around the city. >> we of tulsa of a...

Make dick roland. >> may 31st, the police decide theyre going to pick him up. they go to where he lives with his mother in greenwood, arrest him, take him to the courthouse and as with other prisoners put him up in the fourth floor jail. the first edition of the tulsa tribune hits the streets around 3:00, 3:30. within 30 minutes theres lynch talks on the streets of tulsa. lynch talk soon turns into a lynch mob. meanwhile black people are trying to figure out whats going on, what to do, how to or...

Female taboo. theyre going to pick him up. they go to where he lives with his mother in greenwood, arrest him, take him to the courthouse and as with other prisoners put him up in the fourth floor jail. >> the first edition of the tulsa tribune hits the streets around 3:00, 3:30. within 30 minutes, theres lynch talks on the streets of tulsa. >> lynch talk soon turns into a lynch mob. meanwhile, black people are trying to figure out whats going on, what to do, how to organize. there was a feeling...

Together and says this is an interracial rape attempt. >> it was entitled nabbed negro for attacking girl in the elevator. the tribune said he tried to rape her in broad daylight in a public building in downtown tulsa. the article went out of its way to make sarah page look virtuous, and as the corollary. >> may 31st, the police decide theyre going to pick him up. they go to where he lives with his mother in greenwood, arrest him, take him to the courthouse and as with other prisoners put him up...

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.