I wonder when you were coming up, when did you first hear about the mask?

I didn't hear about the mask until I got grown.

Wow.

They didn't talk about it.

It was not discussed in the school systems, in the community, in the neighborhoods.

Wow.

A lot of people left Tulsa to find out about what happened in Tulsa because people in other

cities had heard about it.

And they learned for the first time, wait a minute man.

They didn't happen in my town.

Well yes it did.

May 31st, June 1st, when those hot days of summer brought on hate, destruction, murder,

in my city.

100 years ago this week, the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma experienced one of the worst incidents of

racial violence in this country's history.

When a white mob, some of whom had been deputized by the police, laid siege to parts of

North Tulsa, the black part of town.

All started because of a young man and an elevator who tripped onto Sarapay to an elevator operator.

The cry of rape went in the air and Greenwell was destroyed.

Sarapage and Dick Rollin, those were the two teenagers at the center of this tragedy.

Dick Rollin was 19, black and a shoe-shiner.

Sarapage was white, 17 years old, and an elevator operator.

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