Miguel Guerra Mercado
Mrs. Meacham
Race riot assignment
December 8, 2017
Race Riots in Tulsa
The race riots all started with a man named Dick Rowland. He was a young African American that worked on shining shoes for a living. While using an elevator, he was blamed for attacking a white woman named Sarah Page. It was at an elevator of a building in downtown Tulsa. The following day the Tulsa newspaper published an article stating that Mr. Rowland had tried to rape Mrs. Page. The article also mentioned that Mr. Rowland would be lynched that same night the article was published. That evening, crowds of African Americans and white people showed up to the courthouse where Mr. Rowland was being detained. When a confrontation between an African
Mrs. Meacham
Race riot assignment
December 8, 2017
Race Riots in Tulsa
The race riots all started with a man named Dick Rowland. He was a young African American that worked on shining shoes for a living. While using an elevator, he was blamed for attacking a white woman named Sarah Page. It was at an elevator of a building in downtown Tulsa. The following day the Tulsa newspaper published an article stating that Mr. Rowland had tried to rape Mrs. Page. The article also mentioned that Mr. Rowland would be lynched that same night the article was published. That evening, crowds of African Americans and white people showed up to the courthouse where Mr. Rowland was being detained. When a confrontation between an African