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Tulsa Race Riots 1921 Domenic T
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Write a journal/newspaper style article in which you take a neutral stance (as a reporter) and give the facts about the actual event. What led up to the event? What happened during the actual event? Did it have an “end” or is it unresolved? You are to write about this event __when it happened__, you are assuming the role of a reporter in 1850, 1920, etc., __not someone looking back from 2011__. You need to cite your sources, and they must include information only available during that time period. At least one source must be primary and/or an eyewitness account. **Important - This work will be submitted to TurnItIn.com. We will provide you information about using this helpful resource**! POST PARAGRAPH HERE
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September 2nd, 1921.
Racial riots break out in Tulsa and get out of hand. === Last Monday on Memorial Day morning in down town Tulsa, Oklahoma a black man by the name of Dick Rowland a shoe shiner at an office building entered an elevator, in the elevator was a white woman named Sarah Page who was the elevator operator. As Rowland walks in accidently bumps into the white woman, instantaneous she screams and the shop clerk immediately calls the police. "Report of a young white women's unproven and improbable claim of a mid afternoon sexual assault by a black man in a downtown elevator"( Discrimination in the United States, 1920-39). The police arrived in less than minutes to investigate this racial incident. === === The next morning, August 31st Rowland was sent to jail for being accused of sexual assault. By 10am that morning the black community had heard of this outrageous arrest and started a mob of people to riot the city of Tulsa. In this rioting attack in a mere 16 hours caused 35 city blocks and 1,256 people left homeless, over 800 injuries and the deaths of 26 blacks and 13 whites. "A white lynch mob formed, blacks armed themselves to resist, and shots were exchanged" (Discrimination in the United States, 1920-39). These statistics are outstanding and could have been avoid very easily. The case against Dick Rowland was dropped by the end of September 1921. Dismissal was from a letter by the attorney from Sarah Page where she said it was not to be prosecuted because she realized what she made this city go through.=== ===This most definitely avoidable issue in the fine city of Tulsa was based of the color of the man’s skin that just happen to bump into the wrong white women. This really shows the racial conflicts between blacks and whites and lengths that it had to go to, which lead to the death of 39 deaths and over 800 injuries. Even if an innocent man was proven innocent even with the color of his skin, all is not well and racism has lead to many issues in this country that we need to resolve.===

Work cited: "Discrimination in the United States, 1920-39." //Daily life through History.// http://www.ABC-CLIO.com, 2011. Web. 20 Sept. 2011.

Task 1: Mastery Rubric A quality news article will: •open with an attention-grabbing headline •identify the author's name and the date of the publication (in the past) •develop the 5 W's in three power paragraphs •paragraph 1: contain an interesting lead •paragraph 2: correctly cite a secondary source (an indirect quote) •paragraph 3: correctly cite a primary source (eyewitness account) •maintain appropriate journalistic voice •rea d like an article written in the same time period as the event occurred •be free of mechanics and Works Cited errors

TASK II Did the whites not recognize that Dick Rowland was innocent until proven guilty?

PROMPT 1: How did advocates for the minority group shed light on this injustice? The whites denied to recognize the right of the a person is innocent until proven guilty of Dick Rowland after being falsely accused of sexual assault on Sarah Page (white women) which prominently started a race riot. After Rowland accidently bumped into Page she immediately screamed as if he was going to rape her, he evacuated the building quickly as possible because he thought he was going to get killed by a mob of white people. Racism was very strong in Tulsa because, “Tulsa was the oil capital of the world. The whites were jealous of us because we were living well, in some cases better then they were (Schmidt)” said Otis G. Clark at age 104 a survivor of the race riots. So as you can see the racism from whites to blacks was stronger than usual because they were not used to being the “underdogs”, so as a black man in a building filled with white people who wouldn’t evacuate the building in that situation? As the riot of 500 blacks started outside of the jailhouse, the whites contacted the military, to control them but “controlling” them was a pitiful excuse to shot and kill blacks that are doing nothing. “Your government is shooting at you, (Schmidt)” said the mother of Olivia Hooker at age 6 of the riot whom is now 92, which is really wrong for a mother and her child to think of their government shooting at them and not the rioters. The jealousy created a huge racism that one little minor issue broke out into thousands of people left homeless because of fire; which turned into a pathetic act of an excuse for the white military men to shoot down random blacks.

Work cited:

Schmidt, Tom. "Survivors Recall 1921 Tulsa Race Riot: Temple Law Panel Includes 104-year-old Man." //Http:////web.ebscohost.com//. 23 Oct. 2007. Web. 27 Sept. 2011.

PROMPT 2: Why did the majority of Americans not recognize the rights of members of this group? // The black people of Tulsa were completely oblivious to the issue that creates these race riots, and multiple witnesses proved him guilty on the spot. There is no question about this man being innocent; he saw an opportunity to touch a young white woman while trapped in an elevator. Most whites agree that the topic should be dropped because they know that they are right, “I don’t give a flip about hearing anymore about that race riot,(Krehbeil)” said David Bell, age 64 and resident of Tulsa his entire life. Whites realize that blacks always bring up the race riots in a way to get a “cheap shot” as if it’s their faults but it’s the exact opposite. Surveyed by Randy Krehbiel, news reporter said, “90 percent of blacks surveyed said that they take responsibility for most of the problems in the community(Krehbeil).” What more could someone ask for? This issue is obviously outdone because of the other 10 percent of blacks, who can’t get over the fact that they cannot blame the whites for what happened. //

Work Cited:

Krehbeil, Randy. "Tulsans Also Differ on Status of Race Relations, Significance of 1921 Riot." //Ebscohost.com//. 13 Dec. 2009. Web. 27 Sept. 2011. .


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__Paragraph 1:__ Analyze the impact of the literary or work for the minority group and/or American society as a whole. POST PARAGRAPH HERE

Mark Bradford is a black man who grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma and is a very strong racial artist; in this picture here the black area resembles the blacks community after the race riots and really shows the contrast from black areas to white areas. To get this picture look at it as if its a "birds eye view", also in this painting at the top is red, which I think resembles the fire and anger that is spreading through out the town. Said by Mark Bradford himself, "Scorched Earth was influenced by the Tulsa race riots of 1921, an episode that, despite being the worst race riot in the U.S history, is still not widely known,"(Bradford) this really shows the affect it had on the black community even after being 90 years after the fact. Overall this painting really expresses and contrast the differences of the white and black communities and helped the people of the U.S be informed about one of the worst race riots in the history.
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 * Painting titled, Scorched Earth, by Mark Bradford that was inspired by Tulsa Race Riots. ||  ||

Work Cited:

Bradford, Mark. "Scorched Earth." //Mark Bradford//. Web. 3 Oct. 2011. .

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An outstanding product will. •showcase a work that expresses a profound idea about your event and the argument surrounding it •be the **best** example available, not simply the first one you find Wonderful selection to support your points •demonstrate your ability to interpret the meaning of the literary or artistic piece Good job analyzing the painting and its meaningful colors and differentiation in black / white areas •use the extended power paragraph format as a means to express your understanding of the event, argument, and how art literature and art <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px;">can reveal emotions and ideas <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px;">Try to stick to the format for the PP, your work will be focused and clear <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px;">•reference sources accurately <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px;">•mechanics are clean and effective <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px;">Be sure to take the time to edit and polish your work
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 10pt;">An outstanding time line entry includes the following: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 10pt;">• Opens by identifying you, the author, and your event with a banner headline (see an example of a banner on the top of this page). <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 10pt;">• Under the banner, in the table place two graphics or photos that illustrates an important aspect of the event. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">• Thoughtful responses to each prompt are supported by credible sources representing diverse perspectives on the event. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">• Each response should be posted in order (follow template instructions), contain few mechanic errors and follow the power paragraph format. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;">• The credibility of each cited source is established and internal citations accurately match the Works Cited.• TASK I and TASK II each introduce and cite two new sources; TASK III cites one new source.• The Works Cited lists 5 credible sources from the LC databases.
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