Death in a Promised Land

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project, 85–86
       effects on rebuilding, 90
    —Executive Welfare Committee: finances Oklahoma Sun, 74
       organized, 82–83
       activities, 83–86
       disbanded, 84
       financial contribution to the Red Cross, 92
    Chappelle, P. A., 87–88
    Cherry, Clarence, 109
    Cherry, James, 35
    Chicago Defender, 63
    “Choc” (Choctaw beer): defined, 16, 121
       “choc” joints, 16, 96, 120
    Churches, Tulsa, black, 13, 14. See also Appendix I and individual churches
    Churches, Tulsa, white: as internment centers, 71
       relief efforts, 79
    Cinnabar Hospital, 66, 67
    City Commission, Tulsa: claims against, 70, 130
       finances “Police Protection” cards, 72
       approves Reconstruction Committee, 84
       enacts fire ordinances, 85
       blacks protest actions of, 86–87
       nature of postriot policies, 88–89
       rulings and effects on rebuilding, 89–90
       financial contribution to Red Cross, 92. See also Reconstruction Committee
    Cleaver, Barney, 14, 35–38, 49–51
    Clinton, Dr. Fred S., 67
    Cole, Redmond S., 125
    “Colored Citizens Committee and East End Welfare Board.” See East End Welfare Board
    Condon, Eugene, 124
    Convention Hall, internment at, 59, 61–62, 72
    Cooke, Reverend Harold G., 76
    Court cases, postriot, 87–89, 97, 135. See also Grand jury
    Crime and vice conditions, in Tulsa, 16, 39, 96, 99–100
    Crisis, 23
    Daley, C. W., 55–57
    “Deep Greenwood.” See Greenwood, Avenue and business district Dreamland Theatre, 3, 70
    Drexel Building, 46
    Du Bois, W. E. B., 23, 24
    Dunbar School, 14
    Dunn, R. C., and Company, 70
    East End Welfare Board, 79, 87, 89, 92
    Ellison, Ralph, vii, 105, 107
    Evans, T. D.: as judge at IWW trial, 28, 30
       as mayor, 43, 61, 84, 85, 88, 127
    Executive Welfare Committee. See
    Chamber of Commerce, Tulsa
    Fairchild, Robert, 45, 52
    Fairgrounds, internment at, 59, 61,
    71–72, 75
    Fire ordinances, 85–88, 89, 133
    Fox, E. L., 124
    Freeling, S. P., 94, 97
    Free Speech Fight, Tulsa (1914), 29
    Franklin, B. C, 87–88, 109–110, 135
    Franklin, John Hope, 17, 109, 135
    Frissel Hospital, 67
    Gap Band, 15
    Garvey, Marcus, 23
    Gill, Loren L., 47–48, 70, 127
    Glenn Pool, oil discovery, 9
    Grand jury, investigating riot: impanelled, 94
       activities, 95
       report, 95–97
    “Grandfather Clause,” 19
    Grant, Madison, 20
    Green Peach War, 12
    Greenwood, Avenue and business district: probable source of name, 120
       early settlement, 14–16
       Greenwood and Archer (intersection), 14–15; “Deep Greenwood,” 15–16, 57
       postriot history, 108–110
       mentioned, 1–2
    Greenwood Chamber of Commerce, 108
    Gurley, Emma, 57, 70
    Gurley, O. W., 57, 99
    Gustafson, John, 42–43, 51–52, 53, 97, 101, 127, 134
    Hantaman, Nathan, 102–103
    Harlow’s Weekly, 97
    Harmon, Marie, 40–42, 126
    Hill, Professor J. H., 14
    “Home Guards,” 76–77, 131
    Hurley, Colonel P. J., 78
    Hutchins, G. W, 14
    Indians. See Native Americans Industrial Workers of the World (IWW): in Oklahoma, 26–27, 33
       Tulsa office, 26–27, 33
       Oil Field Workers Union, 26–29
       incident in Tulsa involving (1917), 25–33
    Internment, conditions, 71–72, 75. See also Convention Hall
    Inter-Racial Commission, 76
    IWW. See Industrial Workers of the World
    Jackson, Dr. A. C, 59
    Jacobs, Henry, 50
    Joe Lockett v. City of Tulsa, 87–88
    Johnson, O. T., 69
    Jones, Richard Lloyd, 48
    “Junior” Ku Klux Klan, 22
    Kirkpatrick, Major Byron, 53–54
    “Knights of Liberty,” 30–33
    Kopp, H. E., 90
    Krieger, Charles, 125
    Ku Klux Klan: rebirth of, 20
       in Oklahoma, 99
       in Tulsa, 20–22, 98, 102–103, 122
    Latimer, J. C, 72
    Leonard, O. W., incident involving (1919), 33–38
    Loupe, E. A., 76–77
    Lorton, Eugene, 29, 124
    Lucas, E. L., 25, 32
    Lynchings: U.S., 17–18
       Moultrie, Georgia, 18
       in Oklahoma, 19–20, 24, 128
       in Tulsa, 38–44, 102–103, 126
    McCabe, Edwin P., 19
    Macedonia Baptist Church,

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