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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...

Monday, may 3rd, 1921. happens to be memorial day. >> may 30th could have happened at any point in time, because tulsa was already a powder keg. we do know that there are definitely kkk members who are part of the police force. marching on the state on memorial day 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. the boy was born in dick wellen. he's at work on memorial day