On May 31, 1921, whites in Tulsa, Oklahoma utterly destroyed the black section of the city that was known as Greenwood.
All of this violence and destruction occurred only because blacks wanted the charges against the black youth to be decided in a court of law rather than by a mob, and whites in Tulsa were humiliated to see blacks build a more prosperous community than theirs.
The awareness of the attack on blacks by whites in Tulsa was much greater among the older generation.
But after the establishment of the state of Oklahoma in 1907, whites did not intend for blacks and Native Americans to have a major role in government.
The brutal treatment of the Native Americans established that whites could not be expected to be more cordial to blacks.
