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Catalog Number |
1984.002.275 |
Collection |
American Red Cross |
Object Name |
Clipping, Newspaper |
Date |
08/25/1921 |
Scope & Content |
Newspaper clipping from the Tulsa Tribune published August 25, 1921 and entitled "Three Judges Hear Evidence In Negro Suit; City Opposes Plea for Injunction." This article reports upon a trial convened when African American property owner Joe Lockard filed for a temporary injunction against the City of Tulsa preventing the city from interfering with the rebuilding of property in the area burned during the Tulsa Race Massacre. Lockard asked that the city ordinance extending the fire limits into the African American section of the city to be declared void. For the first time in Tulsa's history, three district judges, W. B. Williams, Valjean Biddison, and Albert C. Hunt, heard testimony and ruled together. The article states that African American attorneys Isaiah Spears, Buck Colbert Franklin, and Peter A. Chappelle attacked the validity of the city ordinance. American Red Cross Director of Relief Maurice Willows provided testimony in the trial stating that the fire limit imposed upon the African American community has created frustration and uncertainty. The article states that the three judges granted a temporary restraining to Robert A. Whitaker, which prohibits the city from enforcing the fire limit ordinance in the northern section of the African American community. However, in the petition of Joe Lockard, the judges ruled to uphold the ordinance which prevents African Americans from building wooden structures in the "old Greenwood district" adjacent to the railroad tracks. |
Search Terms |
Blacks fire limits Greenwood District Booker T. Washington High School Tulsa Race Massacre |
People |
Biddison, Valjean Chappelle, Peter A. Franklin, Buck Colbert "B. C." Hunt, Albert C. Lockard, Joe Spears, Isaiah H. Whitaker, Robert A. Williams, W. B. Willows, Maurice |