May 31 will mark 100 years since a white mob started looting, burning and murdering in Tulsa’s Greenwood neighborhood, then known as Black Wall Street, killing up to 300 people and displacing thousands more
From the contemporary record:
A checking up of the fatalities brings the number of white dead to ten and the number of Negro dead is placed at twenty-four.
Contemporary Report Regarding the Events in Tulsa May 31, 1921
“...when you had to choose between history and legend, print the legend.”-John Ford.
“Ransom Stoddard: You’re not going to use the story, Mr. Scott?
Maxwell Scott: No, sir. This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.”
So in the Tulsa riot there was “Million Gazillion blacks killed!”