Archive Record
Images
Metadata
Catalog Number |
1984.002.268 |
Collection |
American Red Cross |
Object Name |
Clipping, Newspaper |
Date |
08/10/1921 |
Scope & Content |
Newspaper clipping from the Tulsa Tribune published August 10, 1921 and entitled "Commission Votes $11,000 For Red Cross; Decide to Live Up to Earlier Pledges." This article reports that the Tulsa city commissioners voted to pay $11,000 to the American Red Cross to pay bills of relief efforts for African Americans due to the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. The vote resulted from growing frustration on the part of Red Cross officials from the city's failure to pay expenses in a timely fashion. The article also reports upon the Reconstruction Committee members' opposition to removing the fire ordinance extended into the burned African American section of town. The committee planned to go ahead with efforts to convert the burned area into an industrial section. The article also mentions a discussion about hospital facilities for African Americans. It announced that an African American ward for twenty-five patients is being constructed in the new county poor farm building. |
Search Terms |
American Red Cross Booker T. Washington High School fire limits Greenwood District hospitals Reconstruction Committee relief efforts Tulsa County Poor Farm Tulsa Race Massacre |
People |
Brady, Wyatt Tate Eakes, M. M. Evans, Thaddeus Daniel Fleetwood, W. M. Rosser, I. G. Willows, Maurice |