Posted on 01/18/2010 2:57:03 PM PST by SoonerStorm09
Tulsa police arrested about half a dozen people today following fights that broke out after the Martin Luther King Jr. parade.
Cpl. Scott Anderson said the fights started about 1:30 p.m. after the parade had ended. Anderson said about 20 small fights broke out along Pine Street near Greenwood Avenue.
``We had just large groups of people and some instigators started some fights. It just took awhile to disperse the groups," Anderson said.
Mounted patrol from the Tulsa County Sheriff's Office also responded to help police.
Anderson said police arrested about half a dozen people. He said despite rumors of weapons, there were no shots fired nor weapons seen by police.
(Excerpt) Read more at tulsaworld.com ...
I am sure he will answer you but they were not after he was killed
BTW the riots after he was killed did not occur in Phila
Mayor Tate gave then police commisioner Frank Rizzo control
over the situation and Rizzo stated NOBODY is burning this city
I’ve heard 40’s versions like this one but the ones from the 60’s and later were changed.
Riots in numerous American cities took place during the 1960s, even as victories were won against legal segregation and disfranchisement in the South. The Civil Rights Movement had raised hopes for further progress toward racial equality, but as blacks in Northern cities saw their hopes frustrated, the setting was established for large-scale disorder in cities such as Newark, New Jersey; Rochester, New York; Cleveland, Ohio; Cincinnati, Ohio; and Chicago. Most significant were the Harlem Riot of 1964, the Watts Riot of 1965, and the Detroit Riot of 1967.
Oh, they rioted then too. It still only HURT their cause.
To post # 11
My cousin Vinnie spells it like this ,,,,, YUTES .
I was 11 years old and living in Kearny NJ, just across the Passaic River from Newark went it went up in flames on a hot July night in 1967. It WAS significant, believe me. 24 dead, millions in damage and over forty years later the city of newark has yet to recover from it.
***Must be a different version than my recording
Those lyrics aren’t on it ***
I have sixteen Bob Wills albums. Four of them have TAKE ME BACK TO TULSA on it. Two have those verses in it.
They are, TOGETHER AGAIN..BOB WILLS/TOMMY DUNCAN Liberty Records LST 7173.
And,
HALL OF FAME BOB WILLS & TOMMY DUNCAN
United Artists Records, UAS-9962
The earlier recordings do not have those verses on it.
What made it interesting is there was one of the biggest wh*re houses in Tulsa at Archer and Greenwood at tht time.
I thought I had an earlier version but I guess not
Wonder why since my version still has Darkie raise the cotton
BTW there is a Merle Haggard version where he sings Poor man raise the cotton and you can hear him start to laugh
Thanks for the info
***BTW there is a Merle Haggard version where he sings Poor man raise the cotton and you can hear him start to laugh***
On my Bob Wills recordings, two of them have “Darkie raise the cotton, White man get the money.
The other two Bob Wills recordings have...”poor man raise the cotton, Poor man get the money.”
and ....’Little man raise the cotton, Big man get the money.”
Bob wills used to play at Cain’s Ballroom In Tulsa. I used to see his advertisement in the Tulsa World back in the 1950s and 60s.
I have those same albums plus the Columbia Anthology which is a compilation of some of the late 30’s and early 40’s recordings. I can imagine after the Civil Rights movement record companies didn’t want anything that could possibly offend anyone [hard to believe, I know] and had the lyrics arranged to remove anything potentially offensive. Ray Benson with Asleep at the Wheel also has an interesting version of Take Me Back To Tulsa. I also believe the Original Texas Playboys in the 80’s (Leon McAuliffe, Eldon Shamblin, etc.) had another version of the tune but I haven’t listened to it lately.
King preached NONVIOLENT civil disobedience. Those who rioted, looted and burned were not following his example.
‘King preached NONVIOLENT civil disobedience.’
Didn’t realy work out that way did it?
“Picked up on the New Orleans TV stations that it went pretty good today at the MLK parade, only two shootings.”
At least the shootings weren’t in New Orleans itself. They were in Marrerro, a suburb.
http://content.usatoday.net/dist/custom/gci/InsidePage.aspx?cId=thetowntalk&sParam=32565865.story
Sheesh!
No, but not King’s fault! I did not agree with his political views (though we didn’t know for sure that he favored commie/socialism until after his death; all those bigots would lie about him in a heartbeat when the truth would have served just as well) but he put it all on the line for freedom, and I respect that.
Indeed.
This is typical.
I don’t know if you noticed, but it ain’t 1921 anymore.
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