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On memorial day. some people call it a massacre. i've been calling it a war. >> there is systemic causes for what happened here in 1921. but you fixate on this trigger incident that involved a black boy and a white girl on an elevator. his name was dick wellen. he's at work on memorial day shining shoes in downtown tulsa. dick rowland was 19-year-old in the spring of 1921. he worked in a white-owned and white patronized shine parler on main street in downtown tulsa. >> his nickname is diamond dick, so he's known to be this flashy young guy. there's another person in the community that everyone...

Shining shoes in downtown tulsa. dick rowland was 19-year-old in the spring of 1921. he worked in a white-owned and white-patronized shine parler on main street in downtown tulsa. >> his nickname is diamond dick, so he's known to be this flashy young guy. another person in the community that everyone knows but he's never been seen as a trouble maker. >> there's not a restroom facilities in the shine part. so the white owner has arranged for them to walk down the street to the drexel building. on the fourth floor, there was, quote, a colored restroom.

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Parlor on main street in downtown tulsa. his nick name is diamond dick. h he's known to be this flashy young guy. another person in the community that everyone knows but he never seen as a troublemaker. >> there is not a restauroom in the shine part. the white owner arranged for them to walk down main street to the direction building. on the fourth floor there was a "colored" restroom. something happens when he enters the elevator. the elevators are manually operated by a wheel. it takes a great amount of skill to get the floor of the

As Tulsa commemorates the centennial of the massacre this weekend, the city is still haunted by unresolved questions about it: How many people were killed?