Death in a Promised Land by Scott Ellsworth

Author:Scott Ellsworth [Ellsworth, Scott]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780807117675
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 1992-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

He added one more reason: “If we had a company formed it would still be impossible to buy this land for a certain percentage of the negroes would not sell.”31

Black Tulsans were far from silent on this issue, and it was only their action which prevented this further attempt by white Tulsans to destroy their community. A protest was presented to the City Commission on July 28 by property owners “against the closing of Haskell Street” opposite the Booker T. Washington School. On August 26 another petition, which was duly received and filed, was presented to the commissioners “of residents and property owners for repealing or modification of the Ordinance relating to the fire limits, and by so doing give permission to rebuild destroyed property in the Burned Area.”32 Evidence suggests that the East End Welfare Board was also involved in these actions against the new fire ordinance.33

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