Blood and Oil: The History of Tulsa
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The Tulsa Lynching
The incident shows, for one thing, the thin line between voluntarism and vigilantism. This sort of self organization for civic purposes could bleed into vigilant violence. And among some audiences, it aroused the sense that the city was on the brink of just chaos and anarchy. By them months of 19 21, the city was arguably already a tinder box. A young woman who was working as an elevator operator in an office building accused a black man named dick roland of sexually assaulting her while she was operating the elevator. That night, a rumor quickly spread that he was going to be lynched, that a white mob was going to form,. The sheriff of tulsa ensconced
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