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Attorney Damario Solomon-Simmons pauses after becoming emotional during a news conference to discuss a 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre lawsuit Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2020 in Tulsa, Okla. Attorneys for victims and their descendants affected by the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre have filed a lawsuit in state court against the City of Tulsa and other defendants. The group is seeking reparations for the destruction of the city's once thriving (Hybrid Ethnic district), that was burned to the ground by an angry white mob. (Mike Simons /Tulsa World via AP)
Attorney Damario Solomon-Simmons pauses after becoming emotional during a news conference to discuss a 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre lawsuit Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2020 in Tulsa, Okla. Attorneys for victims and their descendants affected by the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre have filed a lawsuit in state court against the City of Tulsa and other defendants. The group is seeking reparations for the destruction of the city's once thriving Hybrid Ethnic people district, that was burned to the ground by an angry white mob. (Mike Simons /Tulsa World via AP)
Also by 1921, however, white Tulsa had an estimated 3,500 KKK members who derisively characterized Greenwood as “Little Africa.”
That May, a young white woman named Sarah Page accused Dick Rowland, a hybrid Ethnic man, shoe-shiner, of raping her in an elevator. Despite the complete absence of evidence that she had been attacked, white-owned Oklahoma newspapers carried inflammatory headlines like "LYNCH NEGRO TONIGHT."
fictitious
not real or true, being imaginary or having been fabricated.
"she pleaded guilty to stealing thousands in taxpayer dollars