Honoring the Victims and Survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre
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Oct. 16, 1995: Million Man March in D.C. 11: Porvenir victims. (n.d.). Retrieved March 10, 2021, from https://www.porvenirmassacre.org/the-victims.html him. The Sheriff and his men barricaded the court house 12: Mills, D. (2019, December 10). Washington, D.C. race Riot (1919) •. Retrieved March 10, 2021, from https:// Louis Farrakhan, the leader of the Nation of Islam, organized www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/washington-d-c-race-riot-1919/ in an effort to protect Rowland. A group of roughly the Million Man March to promote African American unity. Honoring the Victims and Survivors of 13: History.com Editors. (2009, December 02). The red summer of 1919. Retrieved March 10, 2021, from https:// 75 armed Black men, many of whom were soldiers Estimates of between 400,000 to nearly 1.1 million African www.history.com/topics/black-history/chicago-race-riot-of-1919 14: Sept. 30, 1919: Elaine Massacre. (n.d.). Retrieved March 10, 2021, from https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/ the Tulsa Race Massacre: in World War I went to the courthouse to help protect American men marched on Washington, ranking it among the tdih/elaine-massacre/ largest gatherings of its kind in U.S. history. Reportedly 1.7 15: Nov. 22, 1919: Bogalusa Labor massacre. (2020, November 23). Retrieved March 10, 2021, from https://www. Rowland. They were met by some 1,500 white men. By zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/bogalusa-labor-massacre/ million Black men registered to vote after the march [43]. The following are xcerpts from “A Descriptive Poem of this time, the local newspaper began running false and 16: Ocoee massacre. (2021, February 26). Retrieved March 10, 2021, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocoee_ massacre the Tulsa Race Riot and Massacre” by A.J. Smitherman, inflammatory articles about a large-scale insurrection 2016- Standing Rock Protests 17: History.com Editors. (2018, May 04). Rosewood massacre. Retrieved March 10, 2021, from https://www. 1922. among Black Tulsans–alluding to a race war. The Protests were a grassroots movement protesting Energy history.com/topics/early-20th-century-us/rosewood-massacre 18: Catcher race riot of 1923. (2021, January 29). Retrieved March 10, 2021, from https://encyclopediaofarkansas. ________________ Transfer Partners' Dakota Access Pipeline which threatened net/entries/catcher-race-riot-of-1923-5885/ the region's water and indigenous burial grounds. This was the 19: Cortes, Y. (2007, March 01). Remembering Puerto Rico's PONCE MASSACRE. Retrieved March 10, 2021, By June 1, thousands of white Tulsans began destroying biggest political gathering of Native North Americans ever from https://www.liberationnews.org/07-03-01-remembering-puerto-ricos-ponce-html/ “–They are trying to lynch our comrade, Greenwood, looting and burning 1,256 homes and 20: Baptist Street Church Bombing. (2016, May 18). Retrieved March 10, 2021, from https://www.fbi.gov/history/ Without cause in law defi; seen and likely the first time all 7 bands of the Lakota had famous-cases/baptist-street-church-bombing businesses. Firefighters who arrived to help put out fires Get your guns and help defend him; come together since Little Bighorn. Thousands of veterans 21: History.com Editors. (2018, April 06). Orangeburg massacre. Retrieved March 10, 2021, from https://www. later testified that white mobs threatened them with guns also came to defend the encampment and to ask forgiveness history.com/topics/1960s/orangeburg-massacre Let’s protect him, win or die. 22: UpStairs lounge arson attack. (2021, March 01). Retrieved March 10, 2021, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ and forced them to leave. Some first-hand accounts claim for the army’s oppression of Native Americans. Standing UpStairs_Lounge_arson_attack Rock informed a generation about Indigenous rights and its 23: Greensboro massacre. (2021, March 06). Retrieved March 10, 2021, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ they witnessed planes drop fire-bombs on houses. In the Greensboro_massacre ‘Twas the cry of Negro manhood, connection to environmental protection [44]. end, all charges against Dick Rowland were dropped. He 24: Norward, L. (2019, August 08). The day Philadelphia bombed its own people. Retrieved March 10, 2021, from Rallying to the cause of right, https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/8/8/20747198/philadelphia-bombing-1985-move left Tulsa the next morning. 2017: Women’s March 25: Macedonia v. christian Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. (n.d.). Retrieved March 10, 2021, from https://www. Readying to suppress the lawless, More than 470,000 people marched on Washington, D.C., in splcenter.org/seeking-justice/case-docket/macedonia-v-christian-knights-ku-klux-klan Anxious for a chance to fight. 26: Los Angeles Jewish community Center shooting. (2021, January 10). Retrieved March 10, 2021, from https:// The 2001 Tulsa Race Riot Commission report concluded support of women's rights, and in opposition to misogynistic en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Jewish_Community_Center_shooting statements from then President Donald Trump. More than 600 27: Knoxville Unitarian Universalist church shooting. (2020, December 29). Retrieved March 10, 2021, from that between 100 and 300 people were killed and more https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knoxville_Unitarian_Universalist_church_shooting So they marched against the mobbists sister marches in the U.S. and 81 other countries occurred than 8,000 people were made homeless. 28: Wisconsin Sikh temple shooting. (2021, March 02). Retrieved March 10, 2021, from https://en.wikipedia.org/ Gathered now about the jail, on the same day. The years since have been characterized by wiki/Wisconsin_Sikh_temple_shooting women's activism with a record number of women running for 29: Charleston church shooting. (2021, March 09). Retrieved March 10, 2021, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ While the sheriff stood there pleading, Charleston_church_shooting The Tulsa Tribune removed the front-page story of office and funding political candidates [45]. Law and order to prevail. 30: Turkewitz, J., & Healy, J. (2015, November 27). 3 are dead in Colorado Springs shootout at Planned May 31 that sparked the chaos from its bound volumes, Parenthood center. Retrieved March 10, 2021, from https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/28/us/colorado-planned- May 26, 2020: Black Lives Matter Movement parenthood-shooting.html and scholars later discovered that police and state 31: Corasaniti, N. (2017, August 05). Minnesota mosque hit By EARLY-MORNING EXPLOSION. Retrieved Thus responding to their duty, While the BLM movement began before 2020, the George March 10, 2021, from https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/05/us/minnesota-mosque-explosion.html militia archives about the riot were missing as well. As Like true soldiers that they were, Floyd Protests were the largest nation-wide protests to-date. 32: Stolberg, S., & Brian. (2017, August 12). Man charged after white nationalist rally in charlottesville ends in a result, until recently the Tulsa Race Massacre was deadly violence. Retrieved March 10, 2021, from https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/12/us/charlottesville-protest- Black men face the lawless white men They were organized by the Black Lives Matter Movement white-nationalist.html rarely mentioned in history books, taught in schools or in opposition to police brutality and the disproportionate 33: Kellie B. Gormly, A. (2018, October 28). Suspect in Pittsburgh synagogue shooting charged with 29 counts Under duty’s urgent spur.–” in deaths of 11 people. Retrieved March 10, 2021, from https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/10/27/ even talked about. A bill in the Oklahoma State Senate number of BIPOC killed by police annually. An estimated pittsburgh-police-responding-active-shooting-squirrel-hill-area/ requiring that all Oklahoma high schools teach the Tulsa 15–26 million people marched in cities and towns across the 34: Louisiana man sentenced for arson. (2020, November 19). Retrieved March 10, 2021, from https://www. justice.gov/opa/pr/louisiana-man-sentenced-arson-three-african-american-churches “–June the First, at five a.m. U.S. following the footage of the murder of George Floyd. Race Riot failed to pass in 2012, with its opponents 35: Blankstein, A., & Burke, M. (2019, August 07). El Paso shooting: 20 people Dead, 26 INJURED, suspect in Three long whistle blasts were heard, BLM has pushed for police accountability and has played custody, police say. Retrieved March 10, 2021, from https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/active-shooter-near- claiming schools were already teaching their students el-paso-mall-police-responding-n1039001 an important part in national conversations around white Giving sign for concert action [1] 36: Gold, M., Corasaniti, N., & Rashbaum, W. (2019, December 10). Jersey city shooting. Retrieved March 10, about the riot . supremecy [46]. 2021, from https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/10/nyregion/jersey-city-shooter.html To that cold blood-thirsty herd. ________________ 38: Latino shop Owner attacked at UTAH tire STORE. (2020, February 14). Retrieved March 10, 2021, from ________________ https://www.sltrib.com/news/2020/02/14/latino-shop-owner/ 39: Massachusetts Jewish LEDGER. (n.d.). Retrieved March 10, 2021, from https://www.wmassjewishledger. At the signal from the whistle Sources: com/2020/04/man-charged-with-attempt-to-fire-bomb-ruths-house/ The following is an incomplete list-in-progress of Aeroplanes were seen to fly, 40: International, A. (2020, August). Covid-in-Detention-Campaign-Update-31-August-2020.pd. Retrieved March the victims and survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race 1: History.com Editors. (2021, January 20). Tulsa Race Massacre. HISTORY. https://www.history.com/topics/ 10, 2021, from https://www.amnestyusa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Covid-in-Detention-Campaign-Update- Dropping bombs and high explosives, roaring-twenties/tulsa-race-massacre 31-August-2020.pdf Massacre. The information on this list was researched 2: © I. Marc Carlson [2020]. The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921, tulsaraceriot.wordpress.com 41: Parenthood, Planned.