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It could have begun with something as innocent as a stumble.
We donât know why Sarah Page, the teenage elevator operator in a four-story building in downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma, screamed.
Some say the elevator didnât stop level with the floors and Dick Rowland, a teenage shoeshiner, simply tripped and grabbed Pageâs arm to steady himself. Or perhaps it was something more nefarious â weâll never know.
What we do know is that is that a clerk for Renbergâs Department Store heard Pageâs scream, called the police, and the front-page headline the next morning in the Tulsa Tribune declared, in the language of the times, âNab Negro for Attacking Girl in Elevator.â