Word: tulsa
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...that someone else planted the bomb or that McVeigh was simply a pawn in a vast conspiracy. His lawyers claimed that Carol Howe, a onetime informant for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, was prepared to testify that she had heard militia leaders discuss blowing up buildings in Tulsa and Oklahoma City and that she knew several men who traveled frequently to Oklahoma City to inspect the Murrah Federal Building. The government claimed that despite spending eight months as a paid informant, Howe had gathered no evidence of a conspiracy in the works, coming forward with her tale only...
...they decide what to do, Oklahomans are in good company. International discussion over apologies and reparations spans slavery and Native American land in the United States, apartheid in South Africa, Nazi slave labor and war crimes in places like China, Korea and the Balkans. Meanwhile, Tulsa and the Oklahoma legislature have the opportunity to restore something to the 100 survivors of the riot who are still alive...
...next morning around 5 a.m., those deputies, along with other white mobs, invaded Greenwood, the black section of Tulsa, and left it in ruins. The authorities arrested every Greenwood resident and took them to detention centers (what the newspapers called “concentration camps”) around the city. After the arrests, the mob, special deputies and uniformed police officers looted and burned the vacant buildings. By noon, more than 1,000 homes had been burned to the ground and thousands were left homeless...
...photograph of the riot, which shows the black section of the city on fire, was labeled “Running the Negro Out of Tulsa.” After the riot the black population declined by about one-third. Newspapers at the time are filled with reports of blacks walking along the railroad tracks headed out of town, never to return. The most poignant photograph of the riot shows the burned shell of the Dreamland Threatre, its marquee fallen. Such was the trajectory of Tulsa’s black community...
...case for reparations in Tulsa is particularly strong because of the deputies’ responsibility for much of the riot’s destruction. As the Oklahoma Supreme Court acknowledged in a long-forgotten insurance case, after the Greenwood residents were arrested, some of the deputies set fire to their houses. The well-orchestrated attack left more than 30 blocks destroyed and perhaps as many as 175 dead...