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Tulsa, 74
       helps purchase tickets for refugees, 74
       activities at fairgrounds, 75
       receives donations of clothing and household articles, 79
       is dominant group in relief efforts, 79
       relief activities of, 79–82
       black views of, 82
       reports unsanitary conditions, 88
       provides housing and housing assistance, 89–90, 92–94
       local donations to, 91–93
       terminates programs, 92
       expenditures of, 92
       overall role of, 94
    Red Fork, Oklahoma, oil strike, 9
    Reeves, Colonel, 86
    Relief activities by whites, overall nature of, 79, 89, 91–94
    Richards, John P., 59–60
    Richardson, Charles, 28, 32
    Robertson, James B. A., 43–44, 51, 53, 61, 82, 94
    Rooney, Colonel L. J. F., 78
    Rowland, Dick, 45–49, 53, 55, 61, 95, 97, 100–102, 127
    Ryan, F. J., 29, 30
    Sam, Chief Alfred, 24
    Salvation Army, Tulsa Citadel, 69, 79
    Sharp, Raymond, 40–42, 126
    Smitherman, A. J., 44, 74, 97, 136
    Smitherman, J. K., 50, 97, 102
    Socialist Party: in Oklahoma, 20, 99
       in Tulsa, 20, 29, 122
    Spears, I. H., 87–88
    State of Oklahoma v. Will Robinson, 97
    Stratford, J. B., 50, 134
    “Take Me Back to Tulsa,” 14–15
    Taylor, Peg Leg, 105
    Thomas, Jack, 71
    Thompson, Garfield, 135
    Thompson, Oscar, 135
    Thompson, Dr. P. S., 48
    Tulsa Democrat, 33, 35
    Tulsa Guide, 14
    Tulsa Hospital, 66
    Tulsa Real Estate Exchange, 69–70, 84
    Tulsa Star: established, 14
       on lynchings, 24–25
       coverage of Belton incident (1920), 39, 44
       claim lodged for destruction of, 70
       blamed by whites for riot, 74
       on “social equality,” 134
    Tulsa Times, 35
    Tulsa Tribune: coverage of Belton incident (1920), 39–43
       May 31, 1921, issue of, 3, 47–49, 101–102, 127
       riot casualties estimates, 66
       on rebuilding black Tulsa, 91; 1971
       article on riot, 106
    Tulsa Weekly Planet, 14
    Tulsa World: coverage of IWW incident (1917), 25–33, 124
       coverage of Leonard incident (1919), 35
       coverage of Belton incident (1920), 39–44
       estimate of riot property losses, 70
       calls for rebuilding black Tulsa, 90
    Tuttle, William, 7
    Universal Negro Improvement Association, 23, 82
    Van Leuven, Kathryn, 94
    Vernon African Methodist Episcopal Church, 12
    Veterans, World War I, black: U.S., 23;
       in Tulsa, 24, 99
    Vigilance Committee (1917), 32
    Walton, John C, 103
    Warner, Ross T., 69
    Washington High School. See Booker T. Washington High School Webb, Stanley, 35
    West James T., 71
    White, Walter, 52, 67–69, 84, 85, 89, 90, 127
    Whitlow, Henry, 69, 94, 108–109
    Wilkinson, Captain, 28
    William Redfearn v. City of Tulsa, 135
    Williams building, 2, 108
    Williams Dreamland Theatre. See Dreamland Theatre
    Williams, John: early career in Tulsa, 1–3
       riot experience, 3–6
    Williams, Loula: early career in Tulsa, 1–3
       riot experience, 3–6
       files claim for losses, 70
    Williams, Seymour, 54, 123
    Williams, W. D. (“Bill”): birth of, 1
       riot experience, 3–6
       on May 31, 1921, issue of the Tulsa Tribune, 3, 48
       on riot fatalities, 69
       message for young blacks on riot anniversary (1971), 105–106
       on fallacy of Mt. Zion Baptist Church as an arsenal, 129
    Willows, Maurice, 66–67
    Wills, Bob, and his Texas Playboys, 15
    Wilson, Woodrow, administration, 18
    Wisconsin Weekly Blade, 23
    Women of the Ku Klux Klan, 22
    Woolley, Sheriff, 40–43, 126
    Younkman, C. S., 88