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Metadata
Catalog Number |
1984.002.060 |
Collection |
American Red Cross |
Object Name |
Report |
Date |
1921 |
Digital Link |
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Scope & Content |
One hundred two pages of typescript reports written and received following the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre by Maurice Willows the director of relief of the American Red Cross. Red Cross Registration Bureau staff member Loula V. Watkins compiled this copy of reports. She created three copies of this compilation: one for the Tulsa County Red Cross Chapter, one for the district Red Cross office in Saint Louis, MO, and one for the national office in Washington, DC. Red Cross staff member Cleda Timberlake completed the typing for these reports. This historic resource contains six main sections. Section one entitled "Organization," contains twenty-three pages, including a list of Red Cross relief departments in Tulsa, OK, following the Race Massacre. The list contains the names of individuals assigned to each department and task. This section also contains the mayoral order appointing the Red Cross in charge of all relief efforts, Red Cross correspondence on riot relief policy, field orders from Oklahoma National Guard Brigadier General Charles F. Barrett, minutes of the Physicians Committee of the Board of Public Health dated June 5, 1921, information on volunteer service provided by the Boy Scouts of America, a list of staff for the employment agency, and minutes of a meeting of the Public Welfare Board dated June 6, 1921. Section two contains a sixteen-page report written by Director of Relief Maurice Willows. The report is not dated. Willows discusses the various terms individuals used in 1921 to refer to the event now known as the Tulsa Race Massacre. He includes a brief overview of the events and violence of May 31 and June 1, 1921. HIs report includes sections on the following information: the dead, the injured, burnings, property losses, state troops, immediate care of refugees, the Public Welfare Board, financial policy, organization of relief efforts, list of Red Cross departments and staff, Red Cross telephone numbers, family work personnel, mass relief work, family surveys, hospitalization, medical care, first aid, nursing survey, vaccinations, status of whites wounded, finances, plans for the immediate future, reconstruction plans, a paragraph on the resignation of the Public Welfare Board entitled "Mayor Evans Spills the Beans," extension of city fire limits, current attitudes of African Americans, and Red Cross relationships. Section three contains another version of Willows's report, this copy a twenty-eight-page version dated December 31, 1921. Willows discusses the various terms individuals used in 1921 to refer to the event now known as the Tulsa Race Massacre. He mentions the use of terms "race riot" and "massacre," but himself uses the term "Tulsa Disaster" in this report. He includes a brief overview of the events and violence of May 31 and June 1, 1921. HIs report includes sections on the following information: the dead, the injured, burnings, property losses, state troops, immediate care of refugees, the Public Welfare Board, financial policy, organization of relief efforts, list of Red Cross departments and staff, Red Cross telephone numbers, family work personnel, mass relief work, family surveys, housing measures, general relief program, hospitalization, medical care, first aid, nursing survey, vaccinations, status of whites wounded, finances, plans for the winter of 1921-1922, reconstruction plans, extension of city fire limits, current attitudes of African Americans, and Red Cross relationships. The fourth section contains a six-page report entitled "Supplement to General Report, July 30, 1921." This report contains relief statistics on the Tulsa Disaster, including medical and surgical statistics, a summary of Red Cross accomplishments to date, a list of problems still to be met, a paragraph on worsening living conditions within the Greenwood addition due to a lack of sanitation and sewers, another list of medical and surgical statistics with a paragraph on the formation of a "Colored Hospital Association," and a recapitulation of financial accounts for the Tulsa American Red Cross as of September 1, 1921. The fifth section includes twelve pages entitled "Full Social & Medical Relief Report, December 31, 1921." These pages provide relief statistics, reconstruction statistics, a list of relief tasks yet remaining, a social relief supply schedule providing information on the methods of supply distribution and a list of relief supplies on hand, a summary of Red Cross accomplishments to date, statistics on medical and surgical relief, a list of the names and illnesses of patients in the hospital on December 30, 1921, and a list of hospital personnel as of December 30, 1921. The sixth and final section contains sixteen pages of miscellaneous documents. They include the following: letter to Maurice Willows from J. S. West, Pastor of African Methodist Episcopal Church dated July 1, 1921, copy of resolutions of the East End Welfare Board, a statement of the East End Relief Committee dated December 24, 1921, a transcription of a newspaper article entitled "Nab Negro For Attacking Girl In An Elevator" published in the Tulsa Tribune newspaper on May 31, 1921, a statement from the Tulsa Ministerial Alliance, a statement from J. W. Hughes, the principal of Booker T. Washington High School, detailing his experience during the Tulsa Race Massacre, a poem written by A. J. Newman in November 1921 honoring the kindness of Maurice Willows and the Red Cross, a summary of Christmas festivities organized for the African American community by the Red Cross in December 1921, and a blank sheet of stationery with letterhead of the Tulsa County Chapter of the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Headquarters.. |
Search Terms |
African Methodist Episcopal Church American Legion American Red Cross arrests Blacks Booker T. Washington High School Boy Scouts of America Christmas parties Christmas trees churches Convention Hall detention East End Relief Committee East End Welfare Board fairgrounds financial statements fire limits fires First Baptist Church Greenwood District hospitals inventories labor unions martial law Maurice Willows Hospital McNulty Baseball Park ministers Morningside Hospital National Association for the Advancement of Colored People "NAACP" nurses & nursing Oklahoma Hospital Oklahoma National Guard Open Shop Association physicians physicians Public Welfare Board Reconstruction Committee relief efforts temporary housing tents Tulsa County Commissioners Tulsa County Public Health Association Tulsa Ministerial Alliance Tulsa Race Massacre vaccinations venereal disease Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) |
People |
Abbott, Gretchen Adams, C. D. Adams, Mobeal Adkison, James M. Anthony, J. C. Arnley, Cal Ashford, Richard Barrett, Charles F. Beam, Jennie K. Borden, O. V. Brown, Paul Browne, H. S. Buchner, C. E. Bush, Dimple L. Caldwell, Charles Carter, Charles Chappelle, Peter A. Cochran, W. S. Collins, William Connelly, E. L. Craft, F. D. Davis, Dorothy Dawson, Clarence H. Dix, E. E. Doering, A. C. Ellis, W. N. Evans, Thaddeus Daniel Fairbank, Alfred Farmer, A. L. Field, Clark Fieser, James L. Fish, Ruth G. Forster, J. T. Franklin, Buck Colbert "B. C." Gamble, Henry Godfrey, W. D. Golay, T. L. Graham, Newton Robert Gregg, G. A. Grisson, John Gustafson, John A. Haralson, C. H. Heinsman, H. L. Hopkins, T. C. Hughes, J. W. Hull, James Arthur Hurt, Victor A. James, G. P. Johnson, D. C. Johnson, Ruth Kates, Phillip Kirkpatrick, Bryon Krout, Bennie Lefko, Louis Lindsey, Lilah Denton Martin, Loyal J. McCartney, C. B. McKay, Rosalind Meyers, Barney Miller, Frank Miller, George H. Miller, Jake Montgomery, Arthur Moore, Clint Morrison, Arthur Mosely, Homer Munroe, F. C. Murdock, H. D. Murray, L. C. Newman, A. J. Niles, Alva Joseph Nurse, Mammie Oberholtzer, Edison E. Osborn, George R. Oscar, Henry Palmer, Ada Partridge, W. A. Pierce, Harriet Pigford, A. W. Presson, L. C. Price, Horace T. Prout, Jeanne Pyle, Edna Reed, J. M. Reeder, Charles Lafayette Richardson, Bessie Robinson, Arizona Roland, Dick Roth, A. W. Saddler, J. W. Scott, Mary Porter Smith, Ralph V. Spears, Isaiah H. Stahl, W. F. Stevenson, Alex Stewart, Mary Summers, C. S. Surber, L. R. Tabor, Jr., George H. Thompson, N. A. Timberlake, Cleda Trainer, W. J. Upp, Ora Wainwright, A. G. Walker, Elsie Walker, W. L. Wallace, J. E. Watkins, Loula V. Watkins, Marguerite West, J. S. West, Louella T. West, P. C. Westendorf, Katharine Wheeler, John R. Williams, Eloise Williams, John Williams, Margaret Willows, Maurice Wilson, E. B. Woods, Robert H. |