Word: tulsa
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Dates: during 1922-1922
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...should study. Dismiss all ideas of independence or of being lifted up to the plane of the white man. Understand the Necessity of keeping a Negro's place.' In connection with such admonitions there came the great collective attacks on Negro life and property in Washington, Omaha, Elaine, and Tulsa. There came the increasing boldness of lynchers who advertised their purposes in advance and had their photographs taken as they stood around the burning bodies of their victims. There came vain appeals by the colored people to the President of the United States and to the Houses of Congress...