Archive Record
Images
Metadata
Catalog Number |
1984.002.138 |
Collection |
American Red Cross |
Object Name |
Clipping, Newspaper |
Date |
06/06/1921 |
Scope & Content |
Newspaper clipping from the Tulsa Daily World published June 6, 1921, and entitled "Black Agitators Blamed For Riot." This article states that Bishop Ed D. Mouzon of Boston Avenue Methodist Church of Tulsa, in his sermon delivered Sunday, June 5, 1921, blamed W. E. B. Du Bois, the editor of the magazine "The Crisis" for serving as an agitator of the African American community in Tulsa prior to the event now known as the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. Mouzon described Du Bois as "'dangerous'" and "the most vicious negro man in this country." The article continues with Mouzon's explanation that mob violence is always wrong. He defended the actions of Caucasians during the Tulsa violence stating, " . . . if it is true that our wives, our children and the people of Tulsa were threatened with being at the mercy of armed negroes, then the white man who got his gun and went out in defense with it did the only thing that a decent white man could have done." Mouzon also cited the African American section of Tulsa as being in open violation of the law due to its vice. The bishop also spoke against racial equality by stating that, "There never has been and there never will be such a thing. . . . This is something that the negroes should be told very plainly. Steps toward social equality are the worst possible thing for the negro man. . . ." Mouzon stressed the idea that only belief in Jesus Christ is the hope of civilization. |
Search Terms |
Blacks Boston Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church equal rights movements racism sermons Tulsa Race Massacre |
People |
Mouzon, Ed D. |