The Tulsa Race Massacre: The Department of Justice Review and Evaluation by Department of Justice

Author:Department of Justice [Justice, Department of]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, United States, 20th Century, African American & Black, State & Local, Southwest (AZ; NM; OK; TX)
ISBN: 9781685892227
Google: SeRBEQAAQBAJ
Publisher: Melville House
Published: 2025-03-04T22:16:20.885995+00:00

Snow, The Commission Report, at 119 (discussing white individuals killed during the massacre and noting “[s]ince boot-legging was a busy cottage industry in Tulsa, it is possible that at least some of them had high blood-alcohol levels by the time the trouble began”); Phillips, Murder in the Streets, at 47 (“Drinking increased steadily through the night.”); id. at 42 (“A great many of those people lining the sidewalks were holding a rifle or shotgun in one hand and grasping the neck of a liquor bottle with the other.”); see also Ellsworth, The Commission Report, at 64 (citing Phillips). In addition to the fact that intoxication can generally cloud judgment, Tulsa was a dry city, so even men who were not wholly intoxicated were, if drinking, lawbreakers. Id. at 49 (“During the Prohibition era, both Oklahoma and the nation were supposedly dry, although one would not know it from a visit to Tulsa.”).

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