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Metadata
Catalog Number |
2012.050.264 |
Object Name |
Clipping, Newspaper |
Date |
06/05/1921 |
Scope & Content |
Twelve newspaper clippings from the Tulsa Daily World published June 5, 1921 and June 10, 1921, and attached to an album page. The first clipping, published June 5 is entitled "Aide To Police Answers Critics." This article reports that Bob Murphy, actor and former Filipino constabulary official, disputes rumors criticizing the Tulsa law enforcement for their actions during the 1921 Tulsa "Race Riot." Murphy states that Tulsa Police Commissioner James M. Adkison and Tulsa Police Chief John A. Gustafson worked very hard during the time of the riots. He also states that there was no need to call in the Oklahoma National Guard, because by the time of the Guard's arrival in Tulsa, the situation was already under hand. The clipping also contains a plea for donations to the Public Welfare Board for relief efforts. The article reports that an employment bureau set up at Booker T. Washington High School under Major C. F. Hopkins has put many African Americans to work clearing the streets of rubble. The article also reports upon the work conducted by electric crews of the Public Service Company of Oklahoma in repairing electric lines in the burned African American community. The article concludes with the opinions of several other Tulsans. The second newspaper clipping, published June 5, 1921, is entitled "Oklahoma Outbursts," and written by Otis Lorton. The article contains nine sarcastic statements concerning the recent Tulsa Race Massacre. Lorton observes, "Like the widow who gave her mite, a man rushed into the headquarters of one of the relief committees the other day, when the temperature was up about 90, and contributed a heavy winter overcoat." The clipping contains a second article entitled "Barometer of Public Opinion." The article contains a letter to the editor of the Tulsa Daily World from M. W. Fry of Tulsa, OK. Fry contends that God made the races different for a purpose and states those who believe there are no differences caused the recent race trouble in Tulsa. He bases his argument on his religious views and provides an explanation of the hierarchy of God's creation. The article contains a second letter to the editor written by E. S. Worthington of Tulsa. Worthington states that he regrets the recent burning and looting of the African American community, but he believes the cause of the entire affair to the be the actions of armed African Americans who marched into downtown. The third newspaper clipping, published June 5,1921, is an editorial entitled "In Work There Is Salvation." The editor praises Tulsa Mayor Thaddeus Daniel Evans for his order requiring all African American men living in the area devastated by the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre to find work or face jail time. The editor states, "Tulsa wants no shiftless, idle class, either white or black. . . . In no way can the colored population show its worthiness excepting by work and co-operation with that which is being undertaken. We want no idle, silk-shirted defiant negroes walking the streets of Tulsa, nor will we have them." The fourth newspaper clipping, published June 5, 1921, is entitled "Seven Wounded Remain." This article reports that seven Caucasian patients remain in hospitals following the Tulsa "riot." The article lists the names of the patients and the hospitals. The article also lists the names of four Caucasians released from the hospital on June 4, 1921. The fifth newspaper clipping, published June 5, 1921, is entitled "The Churches." In this article the Tulsa Daily World newspaper praises the local churches of Tulsa for their role in the relief work following the Tulsa Race Massacre. The six newspaper clipping, published June 5, 1921, is entitled "Relief Hospital Cares For Sick." This article reports upon the establishment of a relief hospital by the American Red Cross at 510 North Main Street in Tulsa, OK to care for those wounded in the Tulsa Race Massacre. Miss Ella Winn supervised the hospital. The article describes the hospital facility and lists the names of the kitchen staff. The seventh newspaper clipping, published June 5, 1921, is a fragment entitled "Red Cross Fast Helping Blacks." This article reports upon the establishment by the American Red Cross of a relief headquarters at the Booker T. Washington High School under the supervision of Red Cross Director of Relief Maurice Willows of Saint Louis, MO. The article also lists other Red Cross personnel in the various relief departments. The report also states that the Red Cross vaccinated all refugees interned in the central camp, which holds approximately 1.000 to 1,200 African Americans. The eighth newspaper clipping, published June 5, 1921, is entitled "Riot Dead Decrease." This article states that the Oklahoma National Guard prepared the first official list of casualties sustained from the "race riot" in Tulsa on June 1, 1921. The list contained the names of thirty-five known dead: twenty-six African Americans and nine Caucasians. The number of injured African Americans totaled 238: 72 injured severely and 166 injured slightly. The number of injured Caucasians totaled 79: 16 injured severely and 63 injured slightly. Guard officials states that no bodies were cremated in the fires because the fast-moving fires did not burn hot enough to destroy a body. The ninth newspaper clipping, published June 5, 1921, is entitled "Riots Speed Up Lynching Laws." This article states that U.S. Senator Joseph Medill McCormick, a Republican of Illinois, introduced an anti-lynching bill before Congress as a result of the recent "Tulsa race riots." The bill imposed severe penalties on those who lynch both African Americans and Caucasians. The tenth newspaper clipping, published June 5, 1921, is entitled "Semi-Military Rule For City." This article reports upon the actions of Tulsa Mayor Thaddeus Daniel Evans to keep Tulsa in a semi-military state following the end of martial law. Passes issued by the mayor will be necessary to enter the burned African American community. The eleventh newspaper clipping, published June 5, 1921, is entitled "Cooke to Discuss the Riot in Sunday Sermon." This article states that Reverend Harold G. Cooke of the Centenery Methodist Church will deliver a sermon Sunday, June 5, in which he will address the recent race crisis and how Tulsa can emerge a cleaner city. The twelfth newspaper clipping, published June 10, 1921, is entitled "Sweeping Investigation of Rioting and Arson Ordered in Grand Jury Instruction." This article reports upon the convening of a grand jury on Thursday, June 9, 1921 to investigate the causes of the "race riots" in Tulsa, OK that occurred June 1. Judge Valjean Biddison instructed the jury to make an investigation into all offenses against the State of Oklahoma, to investigate the acts of every prisoner confined i the county jail, and to investigate every prison or jail in the county with regards to security and sanitary conditions. The judge stated that nine members of the jury must agree to make an indictment. The article provides the judge's specific instructions to the jury regarding indictment, arson, and dereliction of duty, as well as, a summary of the known events that led up to the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. The article also contains a complete list of the members of the grand jury and their occupations. The clipping contains a second article entitled "Hundreds To Be Called in Probe; Indications Grand Jury Will Be in Session for Three Weeks." This article reports upon the beginning of a grand jury investigation in the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre , its causes, and the responses and actions of Tulsa officials. C. A. Cloud served as the jury foreman. Other jury members included H. H. McFann and L. Lyon. Eight witnesses testified the first day of court. The article states that approximately 200 witnesses will testify during the grand jury. The article lists the witnesses who testified one the first day, which included the following: Tulsa policeman Inspector Charles W. Daley, African American Deputy Sheriff Barney Cleaver, courthouse janitor G. Dudley, County Commissioner Ira Short, Tulsa police officers Sid Jackson and Ike Wilkerson, and former Tulsa Police Chief William Baber. Oklahoma State Attorney General S. P. Freeling headed the prosecution. |
Search Terms |
American Red Cross Blacks Booker T. Washington High School Centenary Methodist Church churches editorials employment services fires grand juries hospitals investigations juries & jurors law enforcement lynchings martial law Morningside Hospital North Main Street Oklahoma Hospital Oklahoma National Guard Public Service Company of Oklahoma relief efforts Tulsa Police Department Tulsa Race Massacre |
People |
Adkison, James M. Arrington, J. W. Baber, William Biddison, Valjean Blaine, George H. Cleaver, Barney S. Cleveland, Jefferson Cloud, C. A. Cooke, Harold G. Crouch, Garland Curry, H. L. Daley, Charles W. Dixon, L. M. Dudley, G. Evans, Thaddeus Daniel Freeling, S. P. Fry, M. W. Gillard, Norman Gilmore, S. A. Godfrey, W. D. Goldsberry, John Graham, Newton Robert Greer, Frank H. Grommet, Sada Gustafson, John A. Harvey, W. C. Henderson, W. D. Hopkins, C. F. Jackson, Sid Johnson, Quay V. Joiner, J. E. Kinion, A. A. Lash, Olive Logsdon, K G. Lyon, L. Masek, A. E. McClain, Marie McCormick, Joseph Medill McFann, Harry H. McKay, Rosalind O'Connor, Charles Parsons, Helen Quinn, D. W. Reed, Frank H. Reeder, Charles Lafayette Richardson, Bessie Schaff, B. F. Short, George Short, Ira Stephens, R. A. Stick, T. B. Switzgood, George Thomas, Minnie Thompson, Frank Van Leuven, Kathryn Wallace, Tom Weaver, Dessa Wilderson, Ike Willows, Maurice Winn, Ella Wissinger, J. E. Worthington, E. S. Wynn, D. F. |