THE CITY OF TULSA WAS THE KLAN AND MOB IN THE 1921 RACE MASSACRE
The Black Wall Street Times discovered that hundreds of Klan members worked for the City of Tulsa during the 1920s, the same decade as the massacre.
Klan organization within the City of Tulsa made it difficult for Black residents to seek and receive justice for the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.
Monday, May 2, 2022, is Greenwood’s last chance to gain reparations and justice for the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre in a Tulsa County Court House room 605 at 1:30 p.m.
Sunday, May 1, 2022, survivors and descendants of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre and Greenwood and Tulsa community will attend a prayer rally at the Historic Mount Zion Baptist Church at 6:30 pm CT.
By The Black Wall Street Times Editorial Board
Over one hundred years ago, the City of Tulsa was the Ku Klux Klan and Mob in the 1921 Race Massacre. It committed genocide against our ancestors who lived in the Greenwood District, famously known as Black Wall Street. City employees, a police chief and officers, firemen, judges, insurance agents, and two Tulsa city mayors were among the over 1,000 racist marauders who fundamentally destroyed the lives of Black Tulsans during the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre and onward.
On Monday, May 2, 2022, Attorney Damario Solomon-Simmons and his team of lawyers will prove how the City of Tulsa created a public nuisance that caused the massacre and the continued harm afterward.
The Black Wall Street Times has obtained an original copy of a Ku Klux Klan roster during the same era of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, housed at the University of Tulsa. It lists names and addresses for over 1,000 Klan members across various occupations and City departments, illustrating the Klan’s immense reach in the decade of the Massacre.
A boy inside the Greenwood Rising museum. (Mike Creef / The Black Wall Street Times)
Just a few years before the 1921 Massacre, a second wave of the Klan rose across the nation, according to a 2018 report from professor of law Jared A. Goldstein titled, ‘The Klan’s Constitution,” published by Roger Williams University School of Law.
“Like the first Klan, the second Klan articulated its campaign for maintaining racial dominance as a mission to preserve the Constitution. It declared that only those Americans of the nation’s “original stock” are capable of appreciating the nation’s constitutional values, and all other peoples should be excluded because they pose existential dangers to the nation’s constitutional order. The Klan’s declaration that it would defend the Constitution by preserving white power proved to have strong appeal.”
This type of destructive mentality created the seeds of the public nuisance for Black Tulsans and African Americans across the country.
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