The rebuilding of an area ravaged by this event was opposed by W. Tate Brady. A year before this event,the alleged shooter of Homer Nida, Roy Belton, was lynched in the same city. This event was sparked bythe arrest of a shoeshine who, while in the Drexel Building, tried to use an elevator operated by Sarah Page.O.W. Gurley tried to calm a crowd during this event, whose "instigator" Dick Rowland was arrested byWillard McCullough. During this event, an area dubbed "Little Africa" by a Tribune article was burneddown. That area, which contained the "Black Wall Street," was the wealthy African American communityof Greenwood. This event was suppressed by the National Guard under the command of Charles Barrett.For 10 points, name this 1921 riot that occurred in the second largest city in Oklahom
The rebuilding of an area ravaged by this event was opposed by W. Tate Brady. A year before this event,the alleged shooter of Homer Nida, Roy Belton, was lynched in the same city. This event was sparked bythe arrest of a shoeshine who, while in the Drexel Building, tried to use an elevator operated by Sarah Page.O.W. Gurley tried to calm a crowd during this event, whose "instigator" Dick Rowland was arrested byWillard McCullough. During this event, an area dubbed "Little Africa" by a Tribune article was burneddown. That area, which contained the "Black Wall Street," was the wealthy African American communityof Greenwood. This event was suppressed by the National Guard under the command of Charles Barrett.For 10 points, name this 1921 riot that occurred in the second largest city in Oklahoma.
The rebuilding of an area ravaged by this event was opposed by W. Tate Brady.
Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 [or equivalents]