What Was The Tulsa Massacre Dbq

The Tulsa Massacre of 1921 was a tragic event in American history in which a white mob attacked and destroyed the thriving Greenwood District, also known as “Black Wall Street”, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The event resulted in the deaths of hundreds of African American residents and the displacement of thousands more. This massacre was a direct result of tensions breaking after the Great Migration, a movement of approximately six million African Americans from the southern to Midwest and Northeastern states. Effects of the Great Migration led to an enormous cultural and social change in the midwest and northeastern states, as the African American population increased by over 40% the culture in states like Oklahoma changed drastically. However, this increase in the population caused competition in the job market to increase, and as tensions rose, anger from the racist white community was directed toward people of color. (Doc-A) Initially, the events of the Tulsa Massacre were not widely reported in the media and were largely ignored by the white population. At the time, the African American community was subject to derogatory remarks and violent actions, perpetuating harmful stereotypes and dehumanizing the victims of the attack. (Doc-J) Over time, however, our understanding of the events of the Tulsa Massacre has changed

It was long believed that the white population was the victim of the Black community’s supposed attack on the white people, but it was later revealed that it was the white population that instigated the violence. This is supported by witness accounts and evidence, however much of this would not have been unearthed if Walter White, the investigator for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People(NAACP) at the time, had not dug deep to find how injudicious the situation was.