Black Wall Street
Test Your Knowledge on Black Wall Street
Embark on a journey through the tragic history of the Greenwood District, famously known as Black Wall Street, and test your knowledge about the events surrounding the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.
This quiz aims to educate and engage participants about:
- The origins and significance of Black Wall Street
- The events leading up to the massacre
- The aftermath and the ongoing quest for justice
What was the Greenwood area of Tulsa, Oklahoma also known as in 1921?
Black Wall Street
Black Haven
Black Homeplace
Black District
Why did Dick Rowland, who worked as a shoe shiner at a Main Street shine parlor enter the Drexel Building?
He was on lunch break and was headed to the "colored" diner for lunch
He was going to the "colored" restroom on the top floor
He had argued with Sarah Page and was going to apologize
The editor of the local newspaper who had his office in the Drexel Building had sent for him to come shine his shoes
Why did a group of armed black citizens offer to help the police defend Dick Rowland against the lynch mob?
They were afraid that the lynch mob would come after their families
Because less than a year before the police had been unable to prevent to lynching of a young White man by a Black lynch mob
The sheriff had organized his deputies in a defensive position and there were still gaps in the defense
The sheriff had no available deputies to defend the upper floors of the Courthouse where Rowland was jailed
Why did some of the 1000+ white men gathered in front of the courthouse leave after the armed black men offered their assistance to the police?
It was dinner time
They went home to get their own guns after having seen Blacks carrying guns
They figured the excitement was over and left
The sheriff told them if they didn't go home they would be arrested
About how many people did the National Guard have to force away from their armory so they couldn't take their guns and ammunition?
700-800
25-75
300-400
150
Why did most of the black men return to Greenwood?
The deputies gathered them into groups and escorted them home
They were talked into in by the sheriff
The armed white men and the armed black men had opened fire on each other
The National Guard had opened fire on them
With the armed white men pursuing the armed black men back to Greenwood, what group of innocent people got caught up in the shooting?
A wedding party just coming out of a church
People waiting for a bus
People leaving a movie theater
Shop owners trying to defend their stores
What was believed by many to be a signal to launch an assault on Greenwood?
Church bell
Car horn
Police whistle
Train whistle
How do numerous accounts say that Greenwood caught fire?
KKK members put burning crosses in several yards and the fire spread from yard to yard
Groups of individuals with rags and gas cans set fire to every third building in each block
Airplanes dropped incendiary bombs on Greenwood
Rioters cut gas lines to businesses and used pieces of twine and newspaper as a fuse to light them on fire
There were about 800 people admitted to local hospitals for injuries. The vast majority of those hospitalized were white. Why were so many more white people than black people admitted to the hospital with injuries?
Very few black people were injured
Blacks mostly didn't have any way to get to the hospitals
Both of the black hospitals were destroyed in the rioting
Blacks usually died in internment centers
What part did the KKK officially play in the Greenwood massacre?
None
They prevented the police from firing any shots at the white men by stealing their ammunition
They led the armed white men
They burned crosses in yards in Greenwood, setting the entire district on fire
The Tulsa Reparations Commission was formed to award some kind of restitution for damages that took place in the 1921 Greenwood massacre. In what year was it formed.
1924
2001
1960
1968
What evidence was NOT found by the Tulsa Reparations Commission of mass graves related to the Greenwood massacre?
eyewitness reports
Archaeological evidence
geophysical search
All of these were found
In March, 2004, US District Judge James O. Ellison dismissed a lawsuit seeking to force the state and city governments to pay restitution to the survivors of the Greenwood massacre. Why was the lawsuit dismissed?
There were no legal grounds for the lawsuit
The laws of the times made all the actions against the Blacks in this case legal
All of the elderly survivors who had filed the suit had passed away
The time limit under the Statute of Limitations had expired
What request by the city of Tulsa did Judge Ellison dismiss?
The request to seal all information on the facts of the case
The request that the plaintiffs' attorneys be punished because they knew that the case was too old
The request that the judge recuse himself because he was related to one of the plaintiffs
The request that no further investigation of this massacre take place
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