Reconstructing the Dreamland, The Tulsa Riots of 1921

Over the past century, beginning before World War I, many incidents have occurred involving white mob assaults against entire black communities. In most of the cases these white mobs attacked the black neighborhoods, beating and killing the residents in many numbers. They also set fire and destroyed the blacks property. (John Warman Pp. 14)

This was the result of the white society trying to maintain their superiority over the black communities, keeping them as the minority. These brutal confrontations are mostly referred to as race riots. In September of 1906, in Atlanta, Georgia, months ...