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with simone beverly

Each Friday, in our 'Different Tactics, Same Results' thread, we take a look at the plethora of ways in which our hood, much like Gaza, has also been threatened or erased

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Today: Greenwood District, Tulsa

note: The Tulsa race riots began on Memorial Day weekend 1921, after a nineteen year old black male (Dick 'Diamond Dick' Rowland, born Jimmy Jones), was accused of assaulting a white woman ( Sarah Page born Sarah Bever) on an elevator. From everything I have read, the 'incident' that sparked the race riot was largely fabricated, possibly by the media, and as a pre text for the violence. Moreover, Page never pressed charges, and refused to co-operate with authorities, thus the case was dismissed in 1921. In addition, historical footnotes claim Rowland escaped Tulsa in 1921.

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