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Metadata
Catalog Number |
1994.012.001 |
Collection |
Fisher, Cara D. |
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 five main sections. Section one entitled "Organization," contains sixteen 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, and information on volunteer service provided by the Boy Scouts of America. Section two contains a twenty-eight-page report written by Director of Relief Maurice Willows on 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, health, 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 third section includes seventeen 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 summary of Red Cross accomplishments, a social relief supply schedule providing information on the methods of supply distribution and a list of relief supplies on hand, and a summary of medical and surgical relief providing a list of hospital patients as of December 30, 1921, a list of hospital personnel as of December 30, 1921, an inventory of hospital equipment as of December 31, 1921, and an inventory of sundry equipment and supplies as of December 31, 1921. The fourth section contains a twenty-seven-page report entitled "Condensed Report: Social, Medical, Nursing and Financial, December 31, 1921." Relief Director Maurice Willows compiled this report for the American Red Cross headquarters in Washington, DC. The report contains an earlier report written by Willows to A. L. Farmer, the chairman of the executive committee of the Tulsa County Chapter of the Red Cross. The report contains the following information: a brief summary of the Tulsa Disaster, property losses, relief efforts of the American Red Cross, the relief process, the entry of National Red Cross officials, vaccinations, work during the summer months of 1921, family relief work, and relief methods. This report also contains a section entitled "Social & Medical Relief Report, December 31, 1921." This section provides 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 list of Red Cross accomplishments, and a summary of medical and surgical relief. The final pages of this section contain a report from certified public accountants to Relief Director Maurice Willows indicating the receipt and disbursement of relief funds, and an analysis of expenditures from inception to January 13, 1922. The fifth and final section contains nine 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 including a snapshot of board member J. W. Hughes, a statement of the East End Relief Committee dated December 24, 1921, a statement from the Tulsa Ministerial Alliance, and a summary of Christmas festivities organized for the African American community by the Red Cross in December 1921. |
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. 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. 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. West, J. S. West, Louella T. West, P. C. Wheeler, John R. Williams, Eloise Williams, John Williams, Margaret Willows, Maurice Wilson, E. B. Woods, Robert H. |