https://padlet.com/dholco1/wm0pssxv5mm82roc Final Project Sociology en-us 2021-05-18 22:12:25 UTC 2025-07-15 12:45:23 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f1fa-1f1f8.png dholco1 https://padlet.com/dholco1/wm0pssxv5mm82roc/wish/1537670563 Two year prior to what would come to be called the Tulsa Massacre during the year of 1919 what is called the Red Summer occurred. The Red Summer is a series of riots and lynching the occurred a cities a crossed America. In these events it would mostly consist of White on Black violence. These kinds of events and terror on black people were spurred on by the growing white supremacy movement and the rise of the Ku Klux Klan. Other factors that played into these terror incidents was a drying up job market and growing competition for jobs. Although faced with mobs of people in every direction black people in the areas where these terror attacks were happening to them were not complacent. They would try their hardest to fight back against these people who were coming after them.]]> 2021-05-18 22:15:33 UTC https://padlet.com/dholco1/wm0pssxv5mm82roc/wish/1537670563 dholco1 https://padlet.com/dholco1/wm0pssxv5mm82roc/wish/1537672672 In Tulsa Oklahoma in the district called Greenwood layed a community of black people. But unlike anywhere else in America Greenwood’s community of black people were different because there they enjoyed economic success and prosperity like no other black community in the nation. This community would be affectionately called black wall street. In Black Wall Street black owned and operated businesses lined the streets. And black people had the same kind of success that had never been given to them before. The community would become so successful that black people would start to move into the district to be able to enjoy the success of others like them. And a lot of the success this district had was because of harsh Jim Crow laws. These laws would make black people uncomfortable going into a lot of businesses in fear that something might happen to them so something like the greenwood district would be vital to them because they would feel welcomed in shows run and owned by people like them. ]]> 2021-05-18 22:16:51 UTC https://padlet.com/dholco1/wm0pssxv5mm82roc/wish/1537672672 dholco1 https://padlet.com/dholco1/wm0pssxv5mm82roc/wish/1537673263 It all started in the morning of May 30th of 1921 when a black man, Dick Rowland, entered an elevator with a white woman, Sara Page, in it. The story had be mutled by history but it ends the same with the arrest of Rowland by the following day. Even though Page would not press charges on Rowland a news report that would come out on the 31st in the local newspaper that was inaccurate and inflammatory. It would spur both a white armed mod and a black armed mod in the front of the courthouse where Rowland was being held. Soon shots were fired and the mob of black people would retreat to the greenwood district.]]> 2021-05-18 22:17:12 UTC https://padlet.com/dholco1/wm0pssxv5mm82roc/wish/1537673263 dholco1 https://padlet.com/dholco1/wm0pssxv5mm82roc/wish/1537673725 In the morning of May 1st 1921 the white mod descended on Black Wall Street as known as the Greenwood district. These people would loot the homes and businesses of black people. They would set fire and destroyed their homes. And they would kill black people by the masses and throw them in mass unmarked local grave sites. The Governor would soon call for martial law in Tulsa but the damage would already be done as the district would be looted and destroyed over the course of about a day that it happened in.]]> 2021-05-18 22:17:29 UTC https://padlet.com/dholco1/wm0pssxv5mm82roc/wish/1537673725 dholco1 https://padlet.com/dholco1/wm0pssxv5mm82roc/wish/1537674851 What was considered a Riot would be soon renamed a Massacre. The whole of the Greenwood district and by extension Black Wall Street would be left in ruble and char. This disaster would leave several thousand, at least 6000, homeless. And at the time at most 100 declared dead. These black people affected by the massacre would live in tents before becoming refugees and moving to other parts of the country. This would not be the end of it though. After it happened a huge cover up operation began by the government. The newspaper article that started it would be cut out of any archived papers and the story would have been erased. But evidence would still persist through everything would be postcards. At the time in white supremacy culture the norm would be to take pictures of lynchings and massacres like this one and sell it as souvenirs. These postcards would provide picture evidence and a lot of it of what happened that day in Tulsa. ]]> 2021-05-18 22:18:02 UTC https://padlet.com/dholco1/wm0pssxv5mm82roc/wish/1537674851 dholco1 https://padlet.com/dholco1/wm0pssxv5mm82roc/wish/1537675635 As this year marks the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Massacre more of an attempt has been made to reconcile with the past and what happened there years prior. The beginnings of dealing with this legacy started with the Commission that was started in 2001. This commission gathered multiple sources of information and even contacted, since then deceased, people who were alive during the massacre. The taped retellings of their first hand accounts of what happened that awful day. They also put in inquiries on digging up potential mass grave sites where they believe, though scientifically backed information, the people of the Tulsa massacre where buried. They also rectified the death count and new estimates put it at almost 300 people who were killed during the massacre. As recently as 2020 the inquiries on excavation sites went through and multiple sites have been excavated. But sadly this tragedy is something not a lot of people are still willing to discuss because of things like generation trauma and the feeling that some people have of just wanting to move on. But there has been a major push into bringing this out into the light and having these hard conversations about the past and how it affects the present and how we can shape a new future.]]> 2021-05-18 22:18:29 UTC https://padlet.com/dholco1/wm0pssxv5mm82roc/wish/1537675635