1921 Tulsa Race Riot: Reconnaissance Survey, Final
2005. 1921 Tulsa Race Riot: Reconnaissance Survey, Final. National Park Service
The period between 1896, when the U.S. Supreme Court provided legal sanction to "Jim Crow" legislation in its historic Plessy V. Ferguson decision, and the early 1920's witnessed one of the greatest period of racial violence in American history as whites sought to reestablish the ironclad system of white supremacy following the African American surge toward equality during reconstruction. Race riots, primarily and urban phenomena, occurred in both the North and the South, but were more characteristic of the North as increasing numbers of blacks migrated from the South to Northern cities to improve their living conditions and take advantage of the economic opportunities in the nation's expanding industrial centers. The consequent displacement of some whites by blacks in jobs, housing, and other public facilities resulted in escalating interracial social tensions which were frequently exacerbated by racist white newspaper sensationalism that hyped African American crime and encouraged lynching of blacks.
- Type
- Published Report
- Date of Issue
- 2005-11
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- HIST
- Keywords
- Analysis, Economic, ehistory, Evaluation, Historic Resources, History, Impact, Impacts, Management, Maps, Oklahoma, perspective, Political, Race Riot, Resource Protection, Social, Tulsa