TIMELINE OF EVENTS
Jun 17, 2021
2 minutes
AFTERNOON, 31 MAY
he publishes an afternoon edition claiming that Black 19-year-old Dick Rowland had been arrested for assaulting 17-year- old Sarah Page, a white elevator operator in Tulsa. The newspaper’s story is untrue but word spreads that a lynching of Rowland is being planned for
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