Causes Of Bolshevism

T.P. Scott wrote in "Negro City Directory": "Early African American business leaders in Tulsa patterned the development of Tulsa’s thriving Greenwood district after the successful African American entrepreneurial activity in Durham, North

White supremacy in Tulsa during 1917 to 1921 was soaring, white citizen of Tulsa thought with events of bombing a wealthy oilman home to the killing of a taxi cab driver that they should have take the law into their own hands. African Americans were terrified in the white citizens actions. African Americans felt that they would not get equal justice with the law, so African Americans had to stand together against white supremacy and challenge their authority. Which leads into the events that start of the Tulsa race riot. Dick Rowland work as a shoe shiner on Main Street. There were no toilet facilities for the boot shiners, so the owner of the shine parlor where Rowland worked arranged for the employees to use the restroom across the street on the top floor. So the morning of “May 31, 1921” Rowland went across the street to us the bathroom. Dick Rowland got onto the elevator to go to the top floor of the building. Minutes later the young lady ran out of the elevator with scratches on her hands,

Have you ever said that you wanted to start a riot, and people have responded by saying that’s not funny? Well here’s why they say that. On May 31, 1921 a riot occurred in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It all happened when Dick Rowland (an African American) was accused of raping a white woman named Sarah Page in an elevator, when Rowland had tripped and grabbed her arm by accident. A salesclerk overheard the scream and called the police. Rowland was arrested. There were angry whites that were outside the courtroom protesting for Rowland to be lynched. The violence started for some people on May 31, 1921 and went on until June 1, 1921. 1265 homes, dozens of office buildings, restaurants, churches and schools had been destroyed during this

The Tulsa Race Riot is considered to be the most deadly and violent race riot of all time. The period of the riot was a time of prosperity in America, not only among whites, but the black population in Tulsa were also living an upper middle class life. The oil boom gave Tulsa a quick boost in the economy and people had money, lots of money. With oil in the ground and money everywhere, it’s hard to imagine that the National Guard was about to be called on its own civilians for the first time and only time in history.

When World War I began African Americans citizens saw it as an opportunity to gain more respect and equal treatment. Unfortunately that wasn’t the case, when the war ended on November 11, 1918, African Americans optimistically hoped that their patriotic sacrifices would have a positive impact on race relations and expand the boundaries of civil rights, but instead when they returned home they were subjected to increased racism and discrimination. After World War I African American men weren’t the only people who had to face discrimination in Cleveland. In Cleveland: A Metropolitan Reader (pp. 192) it stated that, “The city’s African American population grew from approximately 10,000 before World War I to 34,451 people by 1920.” The greatest effect of World War 1 on African American life was the triggering of the first phase of the Great Migration, the unprecedented movement of southern blacks moving towards the north. Which led to African Americans attempting to escape the legacy of slavery and the economic injustices of the South by migrating to Northern cities such as Cleveland, in hope to led a different life. There was a rise in hostility towards blacks because the white community of Cleveland became fearful and surprised as the pace of the migration quickened and the black community was increasing

There was no right to vote, no right to education, no freedom of speech or religion, no fair treatment by the law which means there was no equality. Even though these are rights and principles of the American Constitution, these did not apply to all races during the 19th and 20th centuries, especially African Americans. Even though these are rights that should apply to all people African Americans didn’t not apply to these laws, especially in the Southern United States. Black Americans were not seen as equal to white Americans under the law, or in the eyes of the American people, and African Americans were constantly subject to racism and discrimination. Because of this, two men, Booker T.

The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 was the culmination of racial tensions both endemic in American society as a whole in the period, and certain tensions peculiar to Tulsa, Oklahoma. In 1921, Greenwood and its African American population became the outlet for these often violent tensions seething among Tulsa’s white population. The following paper seeks to shed some further understanding on what motivated and pushed the whites of Tulsa, Oklahoma to such a violent, extreme reaction during the riot.

Americans, slave and free, black and white. Between 1860 and 1877, America had gone through civil war

infrastructure, education, and voting rights) by 1896, the progress of republican policies was undermined and a pre-war copy of the Old South was reconstructed. Officially, the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments provided black men with equal rights and protections but these provisions were not enforced. While in 1865, the radical congressmen may have been completely devoted to the cause of advancing African American rights, their focus shifted by 1877. Some were tempted by financial gain and wrapped up in political scandals, others were devoted to preserving Constitutional principles such as property rights and self-governance while conveniently forgetting about the principle of “all men are created equal”. By 1896, the government had sided with white supremacists and blacks were left homeless and impoverished with the task of emancipating themselves from the shackles of systematic oppression based on the color of their skin. This political struggle between African Americans, their “supporters”, and oppressors who had been brainwashed after years of indoctrination, would carry into the 20th and 21st

Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, and the passing of the Thirteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution were historical milestones in which the ever controversial topic of racial equality was first challenged. In theory, these two movements laid the groundwork for a racially equal United States of America. A country in which every member, regardless of skin color, or race were to be treated equally under the eyes of the law and to one day be treated as equals within all realms of society. As historic and powerful as these movements were, they did

African American’s, after the Civil War and abolishment of slavery, still found themselves in a racist and oppressive society. Though legally free, lots were still engaged in forced labor. Threatened with back lash by their so called “masters” they were trying to find their way as free people. Trying to find some sort of or create better reality in a vile society of people who still believed African American’s were only fit to be slaves. The onslaught of World War I gave African American’s an opportunity to leave the vile societies of the south.

Imagine forbidden to eat in the same restaurant, study in the same school, pray in the same church, or seek medical treatment in the same hospital as a white. This was Black America in the South during the Jim Crow era. Living under a code of laws created to separate the races and maintain a segregated society. The end of World War I brought a lot of change. Black troops were returning home from Western Europe determined to claim the same democracy for which they had fought. The continuous migration of blacks to the north led to labor conflicts. For the first time, whites had to compete with blacks for jobs. Whites turned their anger and frustration on black neighborhoods spurring racial conflict and spreading terror and fear nationwide. The Red Summer of 1919 featured riots occurring in numerous cities including Washington, DC; Chicago, Illinois; Knoxville, Tennessee; and Indianapolis, Indiana. The Elaine Race Riot of 1919, also known as The Elaine Massacre, was the deadliest racial conflict in Arkansas history and possibly even the United States. A shooting incident occurred while a meeting of the Progressive Farmers and

Although there are still many problems, nowadays every American citizen has equality and freedom. But in the 1900s, American people were divided by their skin color, and minorities were discriminated and segregated by the majority. Lynching was often practiced until the early 1900s. Hundreds of people would gather and have a picnic to watch a lynching. At the time African Americans were denied equality by the majority. There are two famous intellectuals who tried to gain equality and freedom for African American with two completely different approaches. They are W. E. B. Du Bois who was a leading African-American sociologist of the late 19th century, and Booker T who is one of the most influential African-American intellectuals of the late 19th century. Booker T Washington and W.E.B du bois fought for African American Equality but had two different approaches and viewpoints.

One of the biggest problems Africans Americans faced in America is Segregation, discrimination, racism, prejudice, rebellion, religion, resistance, and protest. These problems have helped shape the Black struggle for justice. Their fight for justice marks a long sequence of events towards their freedom. Provisions of the Constitution affect the operation of government agencies and/or the latitude chief executives and legislatures in the creation and implementation of policies today. The rights and passage of Amendments granted to African Americans in the Constitution serve as a source of “first principles” governing the actions and policies of elected and appointed public servants across the United States. The 15th Amendment Equal Rights: Rights

Tulsa, OK is a symbolic city, representing the past of what was known as "little Africa, or black wall street." It sought out to have been the first successful city ran by the blacks or the African-American race. Today our people know little to a non-fact about a lot of the history taken place in the "United States" of America.