City
of Tulsa
declares public
war upon
the Greenwood
Black community
to appease
Tulsa's wealthiest
citizens swarming
at Police
Station after
being dispersed
from Courthouse
by Dr.
Kerr:
The
actual race war was ignited as the sullen lynch mob of
oil-wealthy Tulsans dispersed
from the Courthouse by Dr. Kerr encountered the troop of well-
armed Black Veterans coming up from Greenwood to offer a lawful
resistance under Oklahoma Law (21 Oklahoma Statutes §643(3); 22 O.S. §33; 6 Okla Law Review 231) sufficient to protect the Courthouse from them and to prevent them
from lynching the falsely accused Black youth.
These Greenwood Veterans were better armed than was the
lynch mob dressed in business clothes and having come directly
from their businesses offices in downtown Tulsa.
The Courthouse lynch mob attempted to disarm Veterans;
naturally, the Black Veterans refused.
After
encountering the armed Greenwood Black Veterans, this
infuriated lynch mob of Tulsa's leading oilmen and wealthiest
citizens stormed down to the Police Station demanding that the
Police give them the opportunity 'to put down' the Black
population of Greenwood. This action initiated what Tulsans
call 'The Tulsa Race Riot'.
Completely overwhelmed by
the unexpected human presence of Tulsa's most prominent
citizens, the Tulsa Police were stampeded in servile
obsequiousness to the collective social, economic, and civic
status of this lynch mob as Tulsa's wealthiest citizens
… into
accommodating their every demand:
Greenwood arsoned
by Tulsa's
City Government to
appease
wealthy lynch
mob members
at Police
Station:
¿
Is this
'GREEN COUNTRY'
?
This
infuriated lynch mob of Tulsa's most important oil magnates
and leading citizens at the Police Station demanded that the
Police give them the opportunity 'to put down' the Greenwood
Black community.
To
appease Tulsa's most important oil,
business, civic,
and social leaders swarming about the Police Station like
angry hornets; the Tulsa City Government wilfully ignored the complete
legality of the actions of the Black Veterans under State law (21 O.S. §643(3);
22 O.S. §33; 6 Okla Law Review 231):
Accordingly,
to create a procedurally formal legal 'pretext' for invading
and arsoning Tulsa's Greenwood Black district for the pleasure
of Tulsa's most upstanding citizens the City Government
knowingly fabricated the deliberate
official
lie that
the lawful actions of the Black Veterans constituted a 'Negro Insurrection'.
This
wilful official lie was a deliberate
legal error committed by the City Government under
colour of State Law re the police powers of Oklahoma
municipalities which violated the Federally guaranteed
constitutional and statutory rights of the Greenwood Veterans
re 42 U.S.C.A. §1983.
Furthermore,
to give these
important Tulsa community leaders the opportunity they were
demanding 'to put down the Niggers' in Greenwood, the
responsible City Authorities further declared that sufficient
reasons of public safety necessity existed to suppress with
violent force this non-existent
'Negro
Insurrection': The
subsequent suppression of a completely fictional 'Negro
Insurrection' as city policy by the Government of the City of
Tulsa constituted a deliberate legal wrong. This
caused 'The Tulsa Race Riot'.
Tulsa's city policy to suppress a non-existent
'Negro Insurrection'
under colour of the police powers of municipalities
under State law violated the Federally protected
constitutional and statutory rights of the entire Greenwood
Black community under Sec. 1 of the Federal 1870 Ku Klux Act: 42 U.S.C.A. §1983
During
the subsequently planning that night for the City's invasion
of Greenwood early the next morning to suppress this
non-existent 'Negro Insurrection', Tulsa's oilmen,
businessmen, and civic leaders influenced
Tulsa's City Government to target for deliberate arson those areas of Greenwood running parallel to the Midland Valley
Railroad track and north of the Frisco Railroad tracks
… forming
the southern boundary of the Greenwood Black district.
Tulsa's
civic leadership had long coveted the entire Greenwood Black
district for conversion into a rail switchyard,
industrial supply,
and warehouse district:
Before the advent of air transportation and trucking
over inter-state super-highways, rail transportation was the
only means of supplying the needs of Tulsa's oil industry.
The
ulterior motive of Tulsa's civic leadership at the Police
Station to prevail upon the City Government
to arson Greenwood
was two-fold:
(1) to 'clear out' the Black population for the long proposed rail, industrial, and
warehouse district to be built on the site of Greenwood;
(2) to reduce the high fair market value of the improved
Black-owned Greenwood
properties slated for arson
… so that
Tulsa's oil and business interests might later buy such at 'fire sale
prices'.
In
addition, both Tulsa's City Government and Tulsa's civic
leadership had long desired to re-settle
Greenwood's Black population on farmland to the north
of Tulsa, outside the city limits for 'social reasons':
Richard Lloyd
Jones, the oil magnates and other wealthy
community leaders had
long regarded Greenwood as a blight or canker upon what
Tulsa boosters termed 'The Magic Empire'.
Their goal was to make Tulsa a 'Negro
free' 100%
American city.
The civic leaders wanted to force the Blacks to leave
Tulsa.
The
actions of Tulsa's multi-millionaire
civic leadership at
the Police
Station to request Tulsa's City Government to target selected areas of Greenwood for deliberate arson in suppression of
a fictional 'Negro Insurrection' made under colour of the
City's normal police powers established by State Law in
violation of the Federally protected constitutional and
statutory rights of the Greenwood Black Community
... constituted
"conspiracy"
as such is
legally defined
in 42
U.S.C.A. §1983.
To
execute this common plan Tulsa's City Government supplied
copious amounts of petrol
from the City's own supplies to the City's 'specially
commissioned' armed forces in quantities sufficient to arson every Black home, business and church in Greenwood … to 'clear
out' the Black population for the proposed rail, industrial
& warehouse district:
Greenwood businesses
intentionally arsoned
with petrol
supplied by
City Government to clear
out Black
population for
rail switchyard,
industrial, and
warehouse district
long desired
by Tulsa's civic
leadership
The
City Government proceeded to commission as 'Emergency Police
Deputies' some five hundred members of the very
same Courthouse lynch
mob -- the most
prominent and wealthiest citizens in Tulsa
-- who
minutes before had been seeking to lynch the falsely accused
Black youth.
They
were joined by 'Home Guards' formed during World War One [in
case the Kaiser's Army reached Oklahoma], similar armed
vigilante units, and tens of thousand unorganised white Tulsa
gunmen summoned by word-of-mouth to act as a 'City Posse' under
State Law. Constituting
the City of Tulsa's 'armed forces', these ten to fifteen
thousand heavily armed Tulsa gunmen were agents of the City
Government executing city policy
(See 476 F2d 238) to suppress
a non-existent
'Negro Insurrection' willfully fabricated to create a
pseudo-legal 'justification' for the invasion of Greenwood.
Reducing
Greenwood property
values by arson for future
purchase
by
Tulsa's civic leadership
at 'fire
sale prices':
¿
Very 'civic', isn't
it ?
The
Tulsa Police began breaking and entering into
local hardware stores to supply these 'Emergency Police
Deputies' with arms and ammunition to use against the unarmed
Greenwood Black population.
This is euphemised by Tulsans as 'The Tulsa Race Riot'
The
Tulsa Police Commissioner and Police Inspector formed such white
volunteers into ‘companies’, which were marched by the
Police into offensive positions overlooking Greenwood. They were
given tins of petrol and instructed systematically to go from home-to-home, to pile all
mattresses and crouches in the hall,
douse them with petrol and to burn every structure in Greenwood to the ground (21 O.S. §1401 re
"Arson"). All of the
City's armed forces were given carte
blanche by the City Government to invade Greenwood and to do
whatever they wished to the Black inhabitants:
Early
on the morning of Wednesday, 1st June 1921,
upon a given signal the City's armed forces launched an
invasion of Greenwood from the west to suppress as city policy a
completely non-existent
'Negro Insurrection'. These
Tulsans effectively deputised by the City as a Posse were
organised into cars full of gunmen. They began indiscriminately
shooting in Greenwood at any Black from every condition of life.
Acting under colour of their authority from the City, the
City's 'specially commissioned' armed forces prevented the Tulsa
Fire Department from extinguishing
fires in Greenwood.
Middle-class Greenwood
home,
before
… and
after
In
execution of the City of Tulsa's policy to suppress this non-existent 'Negro Insurrection',
the City's armed forces murdered well over 300 unarmed
Blacks, burnt over 1200 Black homes
to the ground --
leaving over half of Tulsa's Black Population homeless,
deliberately arsoned 23 Black Christian Churches, and
completely devastated some 35 city blocks of Greenwood's Black
business district …
in violation of 21 O.S. §1401. Some 700 to 800
hundred Blacks were seriously wounded.
The
situation got so out of hand that Oklahoma Governor declared
Martial Law and sent the State Militia to stop the mass murder
of helpless Blacks by 'T-Towne' Tulsans deputised by the City
Government as 'Emergency Police Deputies' or a 'City Posse'.
The
Commander of the State Militia forced the Mayor to revoke all
'special commission' of such 'Emergency Police Deputies' and the
City's other armed forces on the grounds that such 'special
deputies' were the very persons
responsible for invading and torching Greenwood and
murdering hundreds
of unarmed Blacks.
The
Commander also found that no
authentic 'civil insurrection' by the Greenwood Black population
had ever occurred....
After
the Race War was over, the falsely accused Black youth, Dick
Rowland, was released because he was completely innocent of the false
charges of 'attempted rape' made against him by Richard Lloyd
Jones and The Tulsa Tribune....
Upon
releasing Dick Rowland, Tulsa County Officials put him on an
out-bound train because they could not protect him from Tulsans
infuriated that his very innocence
placed Tulsa in a bad light for having arsoned Greenwood on a false pretext. Dick Rowland
died far away from home and is buried in an unmarked grave.
Ironically,
Dick Rowland's persecutor Richard Lloyd Jones, Tulsa's Most Representative
Citizen, promoter
of the Ku Klux Klan, whose
political acumen is expressed by his boast at "Being First
for Alf Landon" in the 1936 Presidential Election,
died in his own bed and is buried in a Tulsa Cemetery for
the wealthy under an elaborate tombstone engraved in Welsh with
his family motto: 'TRUTH
AGAINST THE WORLD'....
"GREEN
COUNTRY" 'truth'....
Wreckage of
Greenwood business
district as
city
policy
To suppress
non-existent 'Negro
Insurrection'
Gives
new meaning to 'GREEN
COUNTRY'….
With
the Tulsa's newly rich oilmen acting as 'Emergency Police
Deputies', the 31st
May to 1st June, 1921 Tulsa Race War was a worse atrocity than the infamous 10th November 1938
Nazi German 'Kristallnacht':
America's
'KRISTALLNACHT':
1921
Tulsa Race
War
worse
that 10
November 1938
Nazi German
Kristallnacht
Tulsa's
racial Holocaust
of
the Greenwood
Blacks
Half
of Tulsa's 12,000 Blacks were made homeless and had to live in a
tent city built by the National Red Cross for over a year until
they could raise money on their own (with no help from oil-rich
Tulsa) to rebuild their homes.
More
hapless Greenwood Blacks (over three hundred) were murdered by
the Tulsa City Government …
than were Jews (some thirty-six) during
'Kristallnacht' throughout
all of Nazi Germany. Over twelve hundred Black middle-class
single family homes were burnt to the ground along with
twenty-three Black churches and thirty-five blocks of the
prosperous Black business district in Greenwood:
This Tulsa
holocaust of the Greenwood Blacks is an
American ethnic cleansing :
