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There is not a chance in the world to get through that mob into the negro district. As news traveled among Greenwood residents in the early morning hours, many began to take up arms in defense of their neighborhood, while others began a mass exodus from the city. Some rioters believed this sound to be a signal for the rioters to launch an all-out assault on Greenwood.
A white man stepped out from behind the Frisco depot and was fatally shot by a sniper in Greenwood. Crowds of rioters poured from their shelter, on foot and by car, into the streets of the black neighborhood. Five white men in a car led the charge, but were killed by a fusillade of gunfire before they had traveled one block. Overwhelmed by the sheer number of white attackers, the black residents retreated north on Greenwood Avenue to the edge of town.
Chaos ensued as terrified residents fled. The rioters shot indiscriminately and killed many residents along the way. Splitting into small groups, they began breaking into houses and buildings, looting. Several residents later testified the rioters broke into occupied homes and ordered the residents out to the street, where they could be driven or forced to walk to detention centers. A rumor spread among the rioters that the new Mount Zion Baptist Church was being used as a fortress and armory.
Purportedly twenty caskets full of rifles had been delivered to the church, though no evidence was ever found. Numerous eyewitnesses described airplanes carrying white assailants, who fired rifles and dropped firebombs on buildings, homes, and fleeing families. The privately owned aircraft had been dispatched from the nearby Curtiss-Southwest Field outside Tulsa.
Law enforcement officials later said that the 'planes were to provide reconnaissance and protect against a "Negro uprising". Men also fired rifles at young and old black residents, gunning them down in the street.
Richard S. Warner concluded in his submission to The Oklahoma Commission that contrary to later reports by claimed eyewitnesses of seeing explosions, there was no reliable evidence to support such attacks. In , a previously unknown written eyewitness account of the events of May 31, was discovered and subsequently obtained by the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Lurid flames roared and belched and licked their forked tongues into the air. Planes circling in mid-air: They grew in number and hummed, darted and dipped low.
I could hear something like hail falling upon the top of my office building. Down East Archer, I saw the old Mid-Way hotel on fire, burning from its top, and then another and another and another building began to burn from their top. The side-walks were literally covered with burning turpentine balls. I knew all too well where they came from, and I knew all too well why every burning building first caught fire from the top. I paused and waited for an opportune time to escape.
Franklin stated that every time he saw a white man shot, he "felt happy" [8] : 8 and he "swelled with pride and hope for the race. Franklin reported seeing multiple machine guns firing at night and hearing 'thousands and thousands of guns' being fired simultaneously from all directions. As unrest spread to other parts of the city, many middle class white families who employed black people in their homes as live-in cooks and servants were accosted by white rioters.
They demanded the families turn over their employees to be taken to detention centers around the city. Many white families complied, but those who refused were subjected to attacks and vandalism in turn. Ordered in by the governor, he could not legally act until he had contacted all the appropriate local authorities, including the mayor T. Evans , the sheriff, and the police chief. Meanwhile, his troops paused to eat breakfast. Barrett summoned reinforcements from several other Oklahoma cities.
By this time, thousands of black residents had fled the city; another 4, persons had been rounded up and detained at various centers. Under the martial law established that day, the detainees were required to carry identification cards. A letter from an officer of the Service Company, Third Infantry, Oklahoma National Guard, who arrived on May 31, , reported numerous events related to suppression of the riot:. Captain John W. McCune reported that stockpiled ammunition within the burning structures began to explode which might have further contributed to casualties.
The massacre was covered by national newspapers and the reported number of deaths varies widely. On June 1, , the Tulsa Tribune reported that nine white people and 68 black people had died in the riot, but shortly afterwards it changed this number to a total of dead. The next day, the same paper reported the count as nine white people and 21 black people. The Richmond Times Dispatch of Virginia reported that 85 people including 25 white people were killed; it also reported that the Police Chief had reported to Governor Robertson that the total was 75; and that a Police Major put the figure at Official state records recorded only five deaths by conflagration for the entire state in the year of Walter Francis White of the N.
Johnson said that 37 negroes were employed as gravediggers to bury negroes in individual graves without coffins on Friday and Saturday.
Multiple eyewitness reports and 'oral histories' suggested the graves could have been dug at three different cemeteries across the city. The sites were examined and no evidence of ground disturbance indicative of mass graves was found. However, at one site, ground disturbance was found in a five-meter squared area, but cemetery records indicate that three graves had been dug and bodies buried within this envelope before the riot.
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Oklahoma's Commission into the riot provides multiple contradicting estimates. Goble estimates — also stating right after that no one was prosecuted even though nearly a hundred were indicted , [1] : 13 and J. Franklin and S. Ellsworth only estimate at least 75— and describe some of the higher estimates as dubious as the low estimates. Snow was able to confirm 39 casualties, all listed as male although four were unidentifiable. The Red Cross , in their preliminary overview, mentioned wide-ranging external estimates of 55 to dead; however, due to the hurried nature of undocumented burials they declined to suggest an estimate of their own stating, "The number of dead is a matter of conjecture.
The commercial section of Greenwood was destroyed. Losses included businesses, a junior high school, several churches, and the only hospital in the district. The Red Cross reported that 1, houses were burned and another were looted but not burned.
The Red Cross estimated that 10, people, mostly black, were made homeless by the destruction. Cleaver was deputy sheriff for Okmulgee County and not under the supervision of the city police department; his duties mainly involved enforcing law among the "colored people" of Greenwood but he also operated a business as a private investigator. He had previously been dismissed as a city police investigator for assisting county officers with a drug raid at Gurley's Hotel but not reporting his involvement to his superiors.
Among his holdings were several residential properties and Cleaver Hall, a large community gathering place and function hall. He reported personally evicting a number of armed criminals who had taken to barricading themselves within properties he owned. Upon eviction, they merely moved to Cleaver Hall. Cleaver reported that the majority of violence started at Cleaver Hall along with the rioters barricaded inside.
Charles Page offered to build him a new home. The Morning Tulsa Daily World stated, "Cleaver named Will Robinson, a dope peddler and all- around bad negro, as the leader of the armed blacks. He has also the names of three others who were in the armed gang at the court house. The rest of the negroes participating in the fight, he says, were former servicemen who had an exaggerated idea of their own importance They did not belong here, had no regular employment and were simply a floating element with seemingly no ambition in life but to foment trouble.
By June 6, the Associated Press reported that a citizens' Public Safety Committee had been established, made up of white men who vowed to protect the city and put down anymore disturbance. A white man was shot and killed that day after he failed to stop as ordered by a National Guardsman.
Governor James B. Robertson had gone to Tulsa during the riot to ensure order was restored. Before returning to the capital, he ordered an inquiry of events, especially of the City and Sheriff's Office. He called for a Grand Jury to be empaneled, and Judge Valjean Biddison said that its investigation would begin June 8. The jury was picked by June 9. Judge Biddison expected that the State Attorney General would call numerous witnesses, both black and white, given the large scale of the riot.
State Attorney General S. Freeling initiated the investigation, and witnesses were heard over 12 days. In the end, the all-white jury attributed the riot to the black mobs, while noting that law enforcement officials had failed in preventing the riot. A total of 27 cases were brought before the court, and the jury indicted more than 85 individuals.
In the end, no one was convicted of charges for the deaths, injuries or property damage. On June 3, a large group of over 1, businessmen and civic leaders met, resolving to form a committee to raise funds and aid in rebuilding Greenwood.
Judge J. Martin, a former mayor of Tulsa, was chosen as the chairman of the group. He said at the mass meeting:. Tulsa can only redeem herself from the country-wide shame and humiliation into which she is today plunged by complete restitution and rehabilitation of the destroyed black belt. The rest of the United States must know that the real citizenship of Tulsa weeps at this unspeakable crime and will make good the damage, so far as it can be done, to the last penny.
Charles Page was commended for his philanthropic efforts in the wake of the riot in the assistance of 'destitute blacks'.