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Burning Massacre, Destruction, And The Tulsa Race Riot Of 1921 By Tim Madigan

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The Burning Massacre, Destruction, and the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 by Tim Madigan, tells a story of the events leading up to and the actual race riot in Tulsa. During this time in 1921 racism was still a very prominent problem among the people not only in Tulsa but in the country. As many can see from The Burning white people felt that they were more dominant that then the African American race. As they took down the black community of Tulsa, which was called Greenwood, white people were mean and destructive towards the African American race in 1921. Dominance, jealousy, and guilt were main factors to why the white people were so mean.
Before the race riots in 1921, The Burning tells stories of how the white community, mainly men, made it …show more content…

Even though the African American community, Greenwood, had many successful African Americans. It seems as if the white people of Tulsa were jealous of successful the people of Greenwood were becoming. “They figured the Negroes in Greenwood were getting too uppity, and if there was one thing a white could not tolerate then, it was an uppity nigger” The only way to take them down would be destroying the community, homes and the lives of the people who lived in Greenwood. That is what they did, the killed and destroyed the community. With lack of protection from law enforcement and government, the white community was able to demolition the entire community in just one night. Homes and businesses were set on fire, lives were taken, and people lost loved one and were scared for their lives. Many were left with nothing at all to get them by, if they survived, others were left life no life live. The number of how many people actually died the night of June 1, 1921 is still unclear, but there are a few rough estimates. Jealously of the white community was what lead to this race riot in 1921. The white community of Tulsa just wanted to destroy the community they may possibly become a threat to them. Greenwood had people in the community that were amazing doctors, and other were successful business owners. Having people from the Greenwood community who had actually graduated from college, and was trying to have a better life was something one could assume did not sit well with the white community of Tulsa. All the white people needed was a simple excuse to do such a thing towards the black

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