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However, the thriving business district and the surrounding neighborhood began to unravel after the events that took place on the mornings of May 30th and June 1st, 1921. On May 30th, 1921, An African-American man named Dick Rowland was apprehended by local police, after being accused of assaulting Sarah Page, a 17-year-old white elevator operator. Tulsa police arrested Rowland the following day and began an investigation.
In the wake of the violence, 35 city blocks lay in charred ruins, and over 800 people were treated for injuries. Historians now believe as many as 300 African-American people may have been murdered during the massacre. About 10,000 black people were left homeless, and property damage amounted to more than $1.5 million in real estate and $750,000 in personal property .
After the massacre, many survivors and their families left Tulsa. African-Americans and white residents who stayed in the city were silent for decades about the about the terror, violence, and losses of this event and as a result, the massacre was largely omitted from local, state, as well as national, histories, causing internalized resentment and mistrust between both black and white communities.
Back in 1921, Tulsa was plagued with one of the worst incidents of racial violence in the history of the United States. Now, in 2019, Tulsa looks a bit different with the smoke cleared out and the ashes gone from the Tulsa Race Massacre.
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