By Hernan Melendez

• Tulsa Race Riots: It was a massacre during a large scale civil disorder basically racial segregation.

• The Tulsa Race Riots or the Greenwood riot was the worst riot in the us history started because of a feud between two people one named Dick Rowland and the other named Sarah Page an encounter in an elevator that began the whole riot just because of a so called assult.

Main Idea

• Dick Rowland a nineteen-year old black shoeshiner was headed for a washroom in the Drexel Building on the top floor the only elevator that he could take was operated by Sarah Page an elevator operator. The both had a feud or something but when Dick Rowland was about to step on the elevator he tripped and when he tried to stop himself from falling he unintentionally grabbed on Sarah Page she yelled and an clerk at a clothing store heard the scream and rushed over and he saw dick running off and saw Sarah scared and he put 2 and 2 together and claimed a assault.

• Oklahoma National Guard troops finally arrived from Oklahoma City by train shortly after 9 a.m. By this time, most of the surviving black citizens had either fled the city or were in custody at the various detention centers. Although they had arrived too late to stop what had happened during the previous 10 hours, by noon, and after declaring martial law, the troops had managed to put an end to most of the remaining violence.

• The end of the riot was when the state troops arrived. The end of the riot left 39; 26 black, 13 white dead

With the arrest of a 21 year old African American, Los Angeles's South Central neighborhood of Watts erupted into violence. On August 11, 1965, a Los Angeles police officer flagged down motorist Marquette Frye, whom he suspected of being intoxicated. When a crowd of onlookers began to taunt the policeman, a second officer was called in. According to eyewitness accounts, the second officer struck crowd members with his baton, and news of the act of police brutality soon spread throughout the neighborhood. The incident, combined with escalating racial tensions, overcrowding in the neighborhood, and a summer heat wave, sparked violence on a massive scale. Despite attempts the following day aimed at quelling anti police sentiment, residents began looting and burning local stores.

• Tulsa race riots time line

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_Race_Riot

• http://www.tulsareparations.org/TulsaRiot.htm