Tulsa World from Tulsa, Oklahoma • 15

Sunday March 5 2000 A 15 Tulsa World RIOT Two very different scenarios ROM A 1 inancing available Archer 75 TulsaWorld 244 64 k2 244) Central Park Tulsa World Note: Current highways shown as reference points only Winston Patio Set white I S5EANs'4j CardiologyTus Welcomes Richard Slagle MD back to clinical practice Name: Street: symptom include: Zip: State: City: I i t5Srrwa As 43c Aging is inevitable Looking it have to be risco Tricks City ali Drexel Bulldlni i ear of Social Situations? 8411 41st 663 3730 National Guard Armory Ducane Stainless Steel Grill Oaklawn Cemetery Swearing Muscle tension Shakincss Embarrassment Randy Krehbiel World staff writer can be reached at 581 8365 or via mail at randy kreh biettulsaworidcom Enter and win a Ducane Stainless steel grill or a Winston patio set while visiting the Tulsa World booth at the northwest end of the IPE building at the 2000 Greater Tulsa Home Garden Show March 9 1 2 Main only a few blocks from the supposed target to the county jail at Sixth and Boulder The plotters are said to have then incited a riot that required an essentially unarmed white mob to break into white owned stores steal guns and ammuni tion (and apparently everything else they could get their hands on) drive the black through the center of the white business district during a three hour running gun battle then trade shots through the rest of the night across the risco Rail road tracks Then finally they got around to burning Greenwood finds the conspiracy theories untenable as do most professional historians includ ing those sympathetic to the cause of riot reparations What happened they say was an out rage but it was not premeditat ed The violence was spontaneous they say essentially a communi ty temper tantrum Black Tulsans were relatively independent and lived for the most part above the virtual pe onage of rural blacks Neverthe less said they were de nied the respect and rights they Racing 1 lean Difficulty Breathing Nausea Stomach discomfort ear of rejection criticism low self esteem Poor test work performance Avoiding eye contact at least some of those special deputies participated in the car nage of June 1 5:30 am on June 1 a large mass of whites began mov ing into the said O'Brien orders were to disarm the blacks and remove them from the area Instead many began indiscriminately killing blacks looting and burning When white spectators saw what was happen ing many came forth and joined in the wild Incredible as it seems today private citizens apparently were deputized on a routine basis though not as haphazardly or on the scale of that night The Tul sa of 1921 it seems was not so far removed from the days of Old West posses It's three months into Y2K Harold When does something happen? ki 10525 Memorial 369 3730 Dr Richard Slagle joined Cardiology TuZya in 1973 and actively practiced until 1998 when he was named Chief Medical Officer for Saint rancis Hospital After serving two years with Saint rancis Hospital Dr Slagle is returning to private practice and begins seeing patients in the office on March 6th i I Greenwood business district 1 DRAWING SCHEDULE RIDAY GRILL SATURDAY PATIO SET SUNDAY GRILL Showtime is 8:00 ptn in the Assembly Hall of the Maxwell Convention Center Tickets are available at all Novel Idea Bookstores and the Tulsa Press Club 401 Boston Ave or by mail 1 ickets arc only $10 each deserved Clearly views on race covered a broad spectrum but just as clearly the majority opinion was that blacks were and should remain second class citizens Two weeks before file riot a Tulsa couple was ar rested for refusing to sit in the black section of a street car Armed and dangerous: On the day Rowland was arrested many whites at the courthouse became enraged when armed blacks be gan arriving says Ac cording to statements by Tulsa National Guardsmen about 200 whites tried to break into the ar mory then located on East Sixth Street at about 9:30 pm When a policeman and a handful of guardsmen threatened to shoot them whites started breaking in to sporting goods stores and pawn shops Once shooting started at the courthouse at about 10:30 pm there was no holding back Po lice passed out guns and proba bly deputy badges too No single action by the au thorities has been more criti cized in recent years than this mass deputizing Such a thing would be unthinkable today and it is now generally accepted that 2 4 1 The alleged was almost immediately labeled a misunderstanding The Tulsa Press Club Spotlights its 68th Annual Evening of Hilarious Political Satire Spend riday March 17 2000 with the Gridiron as it uses clever couplets and snappy songs to spoof local state and national leaders NO HOLDS BARRED! blacks interpreted by white authorities and the National Guard as an armed insurrection whites reacted by taking up arms Black Tulsa thought it was be ing invaded by whites and so it struck first White Tulsa thought it was be ing invaded by blacks and so it struck back only harder (These divergent perceptions evident in the accounts of the time echo now in and assessments The elevator incident The first filing you have to know Little john says is the incident that supposedly started the Tulsa riot never happened at all Most Tulsans who know any stliing about the riot know that it started with some sort of alterca tion between a black man and a white woman on an elevator in downtown Tulsa The most widely repeated ver sion is that on May 30 1921 a 19 year old bootblack named Dick Rowland went into the Drexel Building between Third and ourth streets on Main to use the fourth floor 1 rest room While leaving Row land somehow came into contact with the 17 year old elevator op erator Sarah Page She screamed he ran and a clerk from Clothiers called the police Police arrested Rowland the following morning and rumors that he would be lynched precip itated a confrontation between blacks and whites at the court house where Rowland was be ing held Shooting started at about 10:30 pm continued into the small hours of the morning then resumed with a vengeance at dawn on June 1 as whites swept into the Greenwood dis trict The alleged was al most immediately labeled a mis understanding Page refused to press charges and police said Rowland had simply bumped in to her Littlejohn however goes even further He says black Tulsans have long believed the elevator incident never even happened he said "The building was Almost certainly was May 30 was Memorial Day and an advertisement in the May 29 Tulsa World says the store would be closed in observance Whether an elevator operator was on duty is another matter The elevator served more than two dozen private offices on the Drexel upper floors Littlejohn said he believes Rowland was part of the plot to run black residents out of Greenwood and convert the ar ea with its easy rail access to industrial use had to have that Littlejohn said "It have mattered who lived there black or According to Littlejohn Row land was a pimp and Page was one of his girls Rowland Little john said was taken from the jail on the afternoon of May 31 before the crowd arrived and was transported to Kansas City with Page Pressure to sell: Littlejohn says Greenwood knew some thing was up even before Row land was arrested Pressure on black residents to sell their prop erty to certain real estate men both white and black caused members of a group called the African Blood Brotherhood to ask for help from surrounding communities In effect Littlejohn confinns reports in the white press of the time that heavily armed militants had moved into Greenwood just before the riot They did so he says to protect it It seems odd to some that if Greenwood were the ultimate objective Rowland was moved from the city jail at hirst and TULSA PRESS 111 PRESENTS CN HARCE 17 Millennial CI tdeln! 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People with Social Phobia: ear they will appear anxious or act in a way that is humiliating or embarrassing ear that people will judge them to lie weak or stupid Experience anxiety or Panic Attacks when exposed to or reminded of the feared social situation Avoid the feared situation or endure the situation with extreme anxiety and distress Realize that their fear is excessive or unreasonable Cardiology TUIsa 6151 Yale Suite 400 Tulsa OK 74136 (918) 494 8500 Conspiracy theory: Civic leaders and real estate speculators paid Dick Rowland and Sarah Page to participate in a hoax that would precipitate a riot and lead to the burn Jr 1 1 ing of Greenwood This was done in an attempt to acquire the property for commercial development and a union railroad depot Spontaneous riot theory: Attracted by a newspaper story whites gather at Tulsa County Courthouse where a black man Dick Rowland is being held on an assault charge Armed blacks fearing a lynching attempt come to defend Rowland Assured of Rowland's safety they leave but renewed rumors of a lynching bring a larger armed band Alarmed whites arm themselves shooting starts and after driving blacks back into Greenwood a frenzied mob invades the district Key locations during the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot Gridiron Tickets by Mail Make check to Tulsa Press Club Gridiron Box 52178 Tulsa OK 74152 0178 Send me tickets to the March 17 2000 show at $10 each Police headquarters of how the Tulsa Race Riot started: Grills patio sets provided by: Jack Wills PATIO IREPLACE SHOPPE See the grills and other hot deals while at the show or at either of Jack locations Cosmetic Surgery ree Gkllafren Skin Ti Till March IS Amrncan Andean ol imt er IktOBtraum Surgerv Aatnom Academy of ComkU' Surtrry 711 41 11 (91 o) 461 1 Z6U 6122 Memorial (SW Comer) Tulsa 1 New Ixwik Bmwt Complimentary Turn Back Unes Of Tune March 2nd 12:00 noon March 23 12:00 noon Body SculpturingNon invasive Endemologieultrasonic Afaled I jMMurtMiTuniniy Tucks March 9th 12:00 noon I I I I a I I I pl i I I I i SizzlingHot GIVEAW 'J: ii lU i fc ssgaCTEfcjHjM1 3 I'WVitT I SnKE? 8 Im ra i ifraAv I hi! 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