Tulsa Tribune article incites violence
Item
- Description
- The Tulsa Tribune prints an article describing an alleged assault by Dick Rowland, a shoeshine whos stumble out of an elevator was reported as assault on the elevator attendant. The Tribune article encouraged action to be taken against him. Another article was printed in the same paper about a potential lynching of Rowland, but that article was destroyed and there are no known surviving copies.
- Date
- 31 May 1921
