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*08C0E DUNJEE   Editor
DRUSILLA DUNGEE HOUSTON   Contributing Editor
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In Hour of Mob Violence
The Lesson of the Tulsa Riot
Just Before The Dawn
The darkest hour is just before the dawn, and whether the Negro is
able to see it or not, Georgia's murder farm with its expose of horrible peon-
age conditions and Tulsa with its fringe of hell has really introduced the
white man to himself. Torn aside is the veil of mockery, hypocrisy and
shame, he stands revealed in his naked disgrace, EXPOSED TO HIMSELF.
You will say: Well what does that matter, what did it matter if white
men did rush down the streets of Tulsa crying "I AM ASHAMED TO KNOW
THAT I AM A WHITE MAN"? It means this: It means that the conscience
of the white man has been aroused, has been pricked and that he will act and
act for right and the light that is beginning to creep into him. ALL WHITE
MEN ARE NOT BAD. We can stand and look at black Tulsa, ravished, torn
and bleeding and still believe this. We know that there are hundreds of
white men in Tulsa and all over America who condemn lawlessness and the
murderous hate which ran rampant in the streets of the Oil City, but the job
of converting the right-thinking white man from a passive to a positive and
active force for right and justice is the task over which we have been des-
pondent, over which we have prayed and for which we have fought.
Here is the way to discern what has come. Do you notice that your in-
dividual white friends do not care to discuss the Tulsa affair with you? We
have interrogated many of the colored women who work for white people,
"What do they say to you about this affair?" is the question that we have
asked them, porters in the stores and black men on the public works, to all
of them we have asked this question, universally comes the answer. They
have said nothing. They are silent.
THE WHITE MAN IN AMERICA IS ASHAMED OF HIMSELF TO-
DAY, He ought to be. You will from this moment hear less of the talk of
EQUALITY and SUPERIORTY as here-to-fore. When those thoughts gush
into his being there will spring up also a thought of Tulsa and of Georgia. He
will think then of the depths rather than of the heights, of the shame of
being a white man. He will think of that passage of scripture which in des-
cribing the dissemblers of the earth, says: "FOR THEY ARE LIKENED
UNTO WHITE SEPULCHERS, WHICH WHILE BEAUTIFUL ON THE
OUTSIDE, ARE WITHIN FULL OF DEAD MEN'S BONES AND ALL UN-
CLEANNESS."
There will be an approach, a larger contact for mutual understanding.
The loud mouth, blantant demagogue will be swept aside for the truth we
have wanted exposed. Most of the difficulties that have arisen have been
based on the absence of the real facts. IGNORANCE IS AT THE BOTTOM
OF IT ALL. Take, for example, the looters who ravished the homes of Tut
sa's black citenzenry. Do you know the cry that universally sprang from
that low riff-raff, the skum of the white race th^t swarmed for the first time
on the door-jills of Tulsa's black homes. Ask anyone of the hundreds of
Negroes whose homes were ravished, what the rabble said. They made
this cry: "WE DID NOT KNOW NIGGERS HAD HOMES LIKE THIS." There
is the trouble with the white man. HE DOES NOT KNOW WHAT THE
BLACK MAN HAS IN HIS HOME, HE DOES NOT KNOW WHAT THE
BLACK MAN HAS IN HIS HEAD OR IN HIS HEART, and its has been a
condition that he has set up and manufautured for himself.
This is no plea for social intermingling and we think the white man
who forms the group who stand for justice and fair play understands this.
It is a plea for t<ie sort of contact, such as inter-racial commissions, where
on a common ground of fairness the Negro can have his opportunity to look
the white man in the face and have him understand and make himself under-
stood and show to the white man what is really in his head and in his heart.
The fact that even in this awful moment, some well meaning whites
still want to talk about the Negro wanting that strange thing they are used
to terming "SOCIAL EQUALITY," goes on to show that they have not yet
arrived at the truth of things. The fact that on the whfsper of a woman,
whose face happened to be white, Tulsa was found beating at the jail doors
of Tulsa exposes the fact that A NEGRO IN AMERICA IS GUILTY UNTIL
HE IS PROVEN INNOCENT. We know what the law of reason and fairness
is, a man is supposed to be innocent until he is proven guilty, but the mob,
the mob that has set itself up higher than the court, the mob that wends its
way into the white man's jury box, that wears a policeman's uniform, that is
found in the ranks of the HOME GUARD, that numbers in its ranks sheriffs
and other officers of the law PREVENTS THE BLACK MAN FROM GET-
TING INTO THE COURTS OF JUSTICE, OR RATHER, COURTS OF IN-
JUSTICE.
It is a questionable superiority that rests on such shifting sands. It
is a questionable manhood that will hide behind a petticoat, while it shoots
the heart out of the other fellow. We say this because of the know facts in
the Tulsa disorder. Competent authority states that the girl about whom all
of this trouble falls, is a notorious character, whose husband was sueing her
for divorce in Kansas City. Sheriff McCullough is quoted as saying that
if half that the husband alleges against this woman is true, she is a vile crea-
ture, and before we get away from this point, let us not forget that this is an
entirely different story to the one that was published in the daily papers of
Tulsa, which formented the disorder. THOSE PAPERS SAID SHE WAS A
POOR LITTLE ORPHAN GIRL OF TENDER YEARS. ASSAULTED BY A
NEGRO, WHO THEY ALLEGED WAS SLIPPING AROUND IN THE BUILD-
ING TO COMMIT THE CRIME. After the horror of June 1st, the Muskogee
papers related a story which alleged that 500 Negroes from that town were
planning to march on Tulsa and that they were prevented by the officers of
the law in that city, who hemmed them in. Our investigation shows that this
If a ilie «°.Ut °f whole cloth- There.was no organized attempt to go to Tulsa
by the Muskogee blacks and with the exception of a few anxious ones who
had relatives there, no one thought of going.
 .iu,-r!?Uw,«h.?rAdoes such sort of propaganda leave the black man. EVERY
V^HITE WOMAN WHO SEES A NEGRO ON THE STREET, WHEN SHE
IS ALONE, THINKS THAT NEGRO WANTS TO RAPE HER. In this re-
spect Sarah Page may be pardoned. When Dick Rowland stepped on her
ad a Perfect riflht to feel that she had met ONE OF THE SORT OF
T^AT THE PAPERS HAD BEEN PICTURING TO HER ALL
* , tu"   L she was alone with a b,ack man she had 3 perfect right to
feel that most any awful thing was going to happen to her, and if she
screamed, she screamed no louder than the average white paper does in its
attempt to MAKE BLACK BLACKER and roses stink if they happen o be
the property of Negroes. '
But we are not going to lose faith. As we started out to say, we feel
that we are now in the dark hour before the dawn. The stem attitude of
Governors Robertson, Dorsey and Bickett toward evils among their own
causes one to feel that the tide is turning and with clear vision the white
man is impressed at last with the fact that the big job in America is human-
izing a group of his own people. We are not dodging the other side of the
question either. The Negro needs to continue to lift and climb within This
is the salvation of both groups. Down with th demagogue and the agitator
who ignores the truth and has brought us to the brink of chaos. The NEGRO
DOES NOT WANT THE WHITE MAN'S WOMAN. This false conception
caused the trouble at Tulsa. HOW FOOLISH TO HAVE BURNED DOWN
A WHOLE TOWN IN AN ATTEMPT TO SHOW THE BLACK MAN HE
COULD NOT DO A THING THAT HE DOES NOT EVEN CARE TO DO'
By Drusilla Dunjee Houston
The Negro should have gone into
sober council after the East St. Louis
Massacre but he did not. From pul-
pit and press he should have been
warned of how to proceed to fight
righteously in self-defense. No won-
der the Bible says, "Oh ye careless
Ethiopians." The Negro is sleeping
over a volcano today. He has done
enough running, he must be taught
how to stand and FACE DEATH. I
would as soon die today as tomorrow
if I stand four-square. I prefer
DEATH to serfdom. Rather a mar-
tyred grave than a coward life.
East St. Lopis proved to us what
was laid up in the heart of the white
types that we have passed. Then ev-
ery leader should have been busy
teaching the Negro to fight righteous-
ly in self-defense. THIS IS NOT A
WHITE MAN'S COUNTRY, it is as
much our BY RIGHT OF TOIL. He
wrested it from the Indian and ex-
terminated him but he shall not ex-
terminate us. Injustice crazed the In-
dian. We shall work out our salva-
tion by cool-headed common sense. I
have never approved of the shot gun
policy. That should be only used as
our last resort.
We must teach our people that the
white race HUNTS DOWN ITS CRIM-
INALS. When a WORTHLESS NE-
GRO falls into the hands of the law,
KEEP A LEVEL HEAD. When an
upright law-abiding Negro is threat-
ened with injustice learn to fight for
him WITHIN TH# BOUNDS OF
LAW. Go to the jailor and be sworn
in as deputies to guard the jail. Rid
ing about a city indiscriminately
shooting at innocent people is fight-
ing outside the pale of the law and
gives the white type filled with envy
at the progress of the Negro an ex-
cuse for massacre.
White America robs us of civil pow-
er to handle the BAD NEGRO. Yet
one Negro policeman in Tulsa had
more control over them than the
white authorities had over the mem-
bers of their own race. Until the best
Negro is given more power over the
worst it is criminal to punish all Ne
groes' homes on fire, who in mob-
rule today ARE RUNNING THIS
COUNTRY, who practicing upon the
defenseless Negro, are trying out
their strength to throttle this govern-
ment. It is not the Negro who will
pay,
If Tulsa does not punish these mob
leaders then we should make her pay
for the damage done her Negro popu-
lation. The day after the riot she re-
pented for a day. WE WILL RE-
BUILD THESE NEGROES' HOMES.
The next day we read the addition:
ON LONG TIME PAYMENTS. To-
day we read: PROPERTY OF
THRIJE-FOLD VALUE for industrial
purposes, Negro section will be mov-
ed. If this be true the city could re-
build the homes with a splendid mar-
gin of profit. What is this but AR-
SON, robebry and confiscation, not to
rebuild them free.
A fund should be raised by the Ne-
groes of Oklahoma for the N. A. A.
P. and a fight made through the
courts that'the innocent of Tulsa shall
not have to buy over again their
homes. If we do this the home of
no Negro in America shall be safe.
I heard a little black girl talk a few
days after the riot, her voice still
trembled from the terrible mental
strain. Some will suffer for years
from shocked nerves. Our first fight
should be through the courts. Your
dollar and mine would do it. Where
was the N^gro leadership that should
have impressed upon the authorities
the necessity of prompt action.
he thing that ruined Negro Tulsa
was her loves ALIEN TO GOD. The
life of frivility, gaudy dressing. All
of this excited the envy and covet-
ousness of the low white. One white
man of Tulsa said he stood on the top
of a building and saw the arson fiends
burst open trunks and loot their con-
tents. We are making gods of fine
clothes, showy homes and fine fur-
nishings. God has warned us that our
IDOLS shall be taken away from us
The Negroes of Tulsa these things
yesterday—THEY ARE GONE TO-
DAY.
It is the simpler, humbler way that
leads to safety. We ought to be con-
verting the money we are squander-
ing into land. THEY CANNOT BURN
THAT. Whoever owns the land is
master. I am not going to run any-
where. I am going to die in my home
defending it. If the men fighting at
the Frisco station had been at their
homes watching for the arson fiends,
and had given them the bullets, Tulsa
would in every way be better off to-
day, and they would have saved their
homes. May the Negro never make
such a mistake again.
Our people in Tulsa followed a rash
leadership. The Negro should put his
heel upon the Negro agitator. Our
people must decide to clean up the
foul spots in their communities, where
such groups thrive. Refuse to live
in a place that is wicked and you will
never lose your home. GoS does not
intend for the Negro to become a mur-
derer because the white man chooses
to be one. If the people of the Uni-
ted States do not wake up, a patient,
industrious, law abiding people <shall
be driven to desperation. They will
decide that they must fight fire with
fire.
If law in the hands of the white peo-
ple continues to break down, if this
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fought so desperately at Tulsa be- country fails in its guarantee of life
cause it is being more and more I and property then it is up to the Ne-
bourne upon the masses that they, gro to put a stop to this prarie fire
have no protection from the law and sweeping the nation. Turn us loose,
that there is nothing left but shot for WE ARE NOT ' AFRAID OF THE
Fll" ,h°rCh,,!0r't0rv.Ch-,, v, • ! MQB- The French Revolution started
Everywhere there should be confer- j in a conflict between protestant and
ence between the better classes of i catholic but it soon swung to that
white and black people for a better en- age-old BLOOD THIRST that exists
torceinent ot the law. If this is not i between RIC HAND POOR History
done these clashes will arise every- j repeats itself. The under white man
PLE ARE \ot mivr TnPR°jiS shapening his fangs. The days of
AT-r T TT^ ounrl BE I rPVO'utron and blood are upon us.
SLAUGHTERED LIKE SHEEP. The . SHALL THE BEST WHITE MAN
• chock joints and road houses where i SLEEP ON?
blacks and whites are consorting arej I see thie BEST WHITE MA.N as
very displeasing to us as a race but j he stirs in his fatal sleep to say to
PRnTFPTmv ma2y CaT P°LICE nie: "Sh! Sh! you will bring harm to
, are forced upon I your people." I am doing a service
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us. In cases where our Negro police-
men arrest them they are often turn-
ed loose by the civil authorities. Our
policeman here has been ordered to
arrest no more such white men.
Negro is gone WH.O WORKED FOR
thousands NEVER TO RETURN. Ev-
When It Ceases To Be Virtue
the DENSE mind of the white man
as to my race. I have always coun-
seled patience, long suffering to my
people, for twenty years I have taught
this to Negro youth. I know black
. - people, he heart of my race is rapid-
egro in America should BLACK- lv turning from a people who are
LIST such towns. TULSA SHALL COWARDS IN EXECUTING THE
LAW, a Christianity that cries not
out against ARSON, MURDER and
ROBBERY. I am doing my country
a service in having the courage to
tell you the truth, believing you will
PAY. When the patient, conciencious
Negro is gon, WHO WORKED FOR
LITTLE WAGES, you shall be deliv-
ered over into the hands for service
of the insolent and lazy and C&IMI-      _¥1U5 ,uu wm
-\AL white- types who set the Ne- receive it and play the part of MEN.
authorities without the unauthorized and unnecessary statements that cer-
tain members of our group seem to be spewing out. Nothing should be hid-
den that should be told but we have established courts of justice in which to
try men. It is the spirit of the mob which would try men on the streets and
in newspapers alone. We like that expression we find in Shakespere, who
had one of his characters say: "METHINKS THAT TOO MUCH PROTES-
TATION CEASES TO BE A VIRTUE." If there is any truth in such logic,
it would be a good idea for Tulsa County to lock up some of those loud
mouth, blantant Negroes who are shooting off their heads on the streets
about who is to blame.
Fixing The Blame
In fixing the blame, the Attorney General should never over-look the
truth that the ORIGINAL FACT stands out in bold relief: WHITE MEN I
WERE ATTEMPTING TO MURDER AN ALREADY PROVEN TO BE IN-I
NOCENT NEGRO. If Dick Rowland tried to rape Sarah Page, why has'
she fled and cast a shadow of suspicion over the charge of her friends who|
w were willing to stain their hands with the blood of a human being with]
Th. , .l. -r , u-. . ' their fa|se ideas of protection. Sarah Page ought to be located. Instead of"
, T , "monition of the Tulsa white papers to the white citizens of j rushing up into Kansas and turning up heaven and earth, to bring back Ne-
TiHsa to keep their mouths shut and let the courts establish tiie blame as i groes who fled the community simply to save their lives, Sarah Page ought
to city and county officials, who are to blame for the riots in that city re- ; tc# be brought back and a stern inevstigation had to find out whether she
cently, is good advice to a few of Tulsa's black citizens who seem to be try- gave false information to the authorities, or to anybody. We have printed
ing to overdo themselves convicting one another before the courts have this issue a story cf a white 9irl in Ohio, who has been arrested and has
probed into the affair. Of one thing we may be certain all of th  hiam* that "nfess'd to having given false information to the authorities about Negro
.h„ H. II I I . ; ! ° !htJ9s a"a<*mg her. It was found that she resorted to this subterfuge to
nans shouWers will be located and charged up by the|*IAKE tfER MOTHER PET HER. Negroes are entitled to protection from
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this infamy of lies which can in a moment make a molten hell out of their
peaceful homes.
Hundreds of Negroes will tell you that officers of the law (at least they
had their stars and badges on) burned their homes and shot them down
GET THEM FIRST AND TRY THEM, MR. ATTORNEY GENERAL, for the
crying shame of America is the fact that a sworn officer of the law will for-
get his oath of office and slink down the alleys of his community to commit
murder and arson. IF THE INVESTIGATION STARTS IN THIS DIREC
TION, IT WILL START RIGHT. uiHtg-
There were three blasts of a great whistle before the carnaae start-
ed. Whose whistle was it? FIND THAT OUT, why such concerted action
in the interest of the looters? Who started the fires on North Boston?
What members of the Home Guard was it whe took men out of their homes
while the looters plyed their torches and burst open safes' WHO WERE
THEY? If the white people in the State of Oklahoma are going to start
an investigation and want the confidence of the nation in doing it there
seems to be plenty x>f chance for them to get that confidence '
Sure there will be black men who ought to be apprehendd and inves-
tigated, but to our way of thinking the big job is to get the looters arson
ists and officers who failed to do their duty. THEN GO AND get thp
BLACK MEN WHO ARE CHARGED WITH HAVING BEEN CONNECTED
WITH THE DISORDER. UUINIMECTED
belongs on the black man's
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HEAD OF OKLAHOMA CITY SCHOOLS
Dr. Inman E. Page, for seventeen years President of Langston
University, was elected principal of the Oklahoma City School
at the regular meeting of the board. Tuesdav night. Dr Pa4
has been making his home in St. Louis for the past year He "is
a graduate of Bj-own University and one of the foremost educa-
tors of the nation. His selection has met with the unanimous
endorsement of the citizens.