"The Turk in Tulsa", 1921-06-18

Photocopies of two excerpts from The Independent, from June 18, 1921, one titled "The Tulsa Race Riots" and the other "The Turk in Tulsa." The first piece summarized the events and described how a white mob entered Greenwood and "systematically wiped it out," as well as the National Guard intervention, the homeless crisis that ensued, and the Grand Jury investigation. The scond piece called the events in Tulsa not a riot but a "massacre" and compared them with the massacres of Armenians by Turkish forces, based on backlash against the obtention of civil rights by a racial minority. The piece then critiqued racial prejudice across the United States, suggested that citizens pay for the losses and that Congress imposed heavy fines to cities, counties, and states, and that federal forces became stronger to protect the citizenry.