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Metadata
Catalog Number |
1984.002.097 |
Collection |
American Red Cross |
Object Name |
Clipping, Newspaper |
Date |
06/03/1921 |
Scope & Content |
Newspaper clipping from the Tulsa Daily World published June 3, 1921, and entitled "Local Red Cross Is Reorganized; Ready for Tremendous Task of Uniting Families of Riot Victims." This article provides details concerning the reorganization of the Tulsa County Chapter of the American Red Cross to meet the relief needs of approximately 8,000 homeless African Americans following the Tulsa Race Massacre. The general headquarters of the organization is located at 4th Street and South Cincinnati Avenue, with Clark Field as general director and Newton Robert Graham in charge of the detention camps. The report also states that Robert H. Woods will be in charge of the bureau of identification to aid individuals with finding their family members. Mrs. W. D. Godfrey is named as head of the Red Cross nursing department. The article also provides information on the establishment of a relief depot at the site of the Booker T. Washington High School. The report lists Dr. Paul Brown in charge of the Red Cross hospital for African Americans, located in the old Cinnabar hospital on North Main Street. The article includes specifics of several other Red Cross staff members and services. The back of the newspaper clipping contains a second article entitled "Riot Death Toll Reduced to 30 By Re-Checking." The article states that Adjutant General Charles Barrett disclosed that as of yet, there are thirty dead individuals (ten Caucasians and twenty African Americans) reported from the violence in Tulsa. The report stated that the final list of dead is not thought to exceed forty. The article includes information on the deaths and burials of specific African Americans, including eight who were buried in the potter's field of Oaklawn Cemetery. It also lists the dead at Mowbray Parlors (Mowbray Funeral Home) and Mitchell-Fleming Morgue. |
Search Terms |
American Red Cross Blacks Booker T. Washington High School Cinnabar Hospital detention internment Mitchell-Fleming Morgue Mowbray Undertaking Company Oaklawn Cemetery relief efforts Tulsa Race Massacre Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) |
People |
Adams, Ed Austin, E. E. Baker, F. M. Barker, Harry Barrett, Charles F. Beam, Jennie K. Brown, Paul Cline, Homer Connelley, E. L. Daggs, Walter Doering, A. C. Everett, Edward Field, Clark Godfrey, W. D. Graham, Newton Robert Hankson, Robert Heinzman, H. L. Howard, Ed Hull, James Arthur Jackson, Andrew Cheesten James, Arthur Jeffery, George Lewis, George Lindsey, Lilah Denton Lotspeich, Carl D. Muller, Joe Murray, L. C. Ree, Sam Richardson, Bessie Roth, A. W. Shumate, Cleo Turner, William Walker, Curly Walker, Henry Walker, W. L. Wheeler, John Winthrow, S. J. Woods, Robert H. |