Tulsa Race Riots

''Greenwood District'', ''Tulsa'', ''Oklahoma Pre-Race Riot'' <img src="https://images.all-free-download.com/images/graphiclarge/cartoon_thought_bubble_54889.jpg" width="800" height="500" alt="Two foxes"> //Lincoln: Tulsa, Oklahoma. I guess this is home now. I wonder how much has changed since I've been gone.// //I can't thank Cornelius enough for finding me work in town at that Stradford Hotel.// //They call Greenwood the "Black Wallstreet".// //I hope this was the right decision.// //I guess Cornelius might be off of work now; maybe I should see about meeting him at the bar for drinks.// [[Go to the bar]]

<img src="https://tulsaraceriot.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/fullsizerender.jpg" width="600" height="500" alt="Two foxes"> //The gun fight ensues and a White wave of people make their way across the train tracks. Lincoln and Cornelius are outmatched due to variety of resources the White mob has available to them. Governor Robertson, who requested help from the National Guard, has now placed Tulsa under immediate martial law.// [[Run to get to your brother's house]] [[Get away from danger. Hide in the movie theater.]] [[Rendezvous with the group]]

<img src="https://tulsahistory.org/wp/wp-content/gallery/exhibit-transportation/main-street-with-streetcar-tracks-2002-580-001.jpg " width="800" height="500" alt="Two foxes"> //Lincoln knows it would be better to retreat back at the train tracks and allow his brother to be taken by the others to the nearest hospital. He rallies into position, but The National Guard troops begin pushing forward and two Royal aircrafts are now in the sky.// [[Fight the impending mob]] [[Move back into Greenwood District]]

<img src="http://www.tulsaworld.com/app/race-riot/images/timeline_pic16.jpg" width="800" height="500" alt="Two foxes"> //Cornelius is shot and Lincoln does not have any medical experience to heal his brother's gun shot wound. Lincoln wants to check the nearest pharmacy store for medical supplies, but police officers are driving into Greenwood and the mob has just set fire to Mt. Zion Baptist Church which was holding all remaining ammunition needed for their efforts to combat the White mob. Lincoln wonders if it would be better to get to Cornelius' house.// [[Run back home]] [[Dodge ongoing drive-by shootings and police aggression]]

<img src="https://d279m997dpfwgl.cloudfront.net/wp/2016/10/1004_riots-1000x771.jpg " width="800" height="500" alt="Two foxes"> //Lincoln and Cornelius seem to be having luck making their way through the city. The White mob is out in full-force rounding up any remaining possible combatants.// [[Get away from danger. Hide in the movie theater.]] [[Run to get to your brother's house]]

<img src="http://sfbayview.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Tulsa-Race-Riot-Black-Wall-Street-Williams-Dreamland-Theatre-destroyed-060121-riot-by-Tulsa-Historical-Society.jpg" width="800" height="500" alt="Two foxes"> ''You are trapped in famous Dreamland theatre with no safe escape. The mob sets fire to the building owned by black business owner J.B Stradford.'' [[1921: Tulsa City Riots]] [[Credit]]

Lincoln and Cornelius make it home only to hear screams coming from the upstairs bedroom. [[Go check the upstairs bedroom]]

<img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cb/TulsaRaceRiot-1921.png " width="800" height="500" alt="Two foxes"> ''Lincoln and Cornelius are subjected to violence as the National Guard and the White mobs in Tulsa work to slaughter those who chose to fight.'' [[1921: Tulsa City Riots]] [[Credit]]

''Outside the Stradford Hotel'' <img src="https://thewriterfred.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/stradford-hotel.jpg" width="800" height="500" alt="Hello Cruel World"> Cornelius is infuriated of the news that broke out in Downtown Tulsa today and you watch as he runs over to you. //Cornelius: Can you believe this sh*t?!// He points at the headline of the Tulsa Chronicle newspaper that states,//“The Negro with gaudy name lurking in the shadows…the clawing of her flesh and ripping off her clothes…the helpless orphan who wants only to work her way through business school…the fearful cry… The fleeing predator Diamond Dick who is captured and taking into custody."// //Lincoln: I've seen better reporting.// //Cornelius: This isn't a joke, I heard some of them white folks are lookin' to storm the court house and lynch the boy.// //Lincoln: How many we talkin'?// //Cornelius: Enough. That white mob is going to lynch one of our black brothers without any due process. There is a group of guys said they were making there way there now to try and hold 'em off. We cannot allow them to continue treating us like trash. I'm going, you with me or what?// //Lincoln: Sure, I'll tag along if it means keeping you outta trouble.// [[Go to the Court House]]

<img src="https://eileenmaksym.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/stairs-205718_1280.jpg" width="800" height="500" alt="Two foxes"> Lincoln quietly walks up the stairs to inspect the loud commotion in the bedrooms. The commotion dies down and as Lincoln opens the door he sees a man in uniform roughly thrusting against the body of a lifeless woman. The floor is filled with blood and a child lay beside the bed. Lincoln, in utter shock, cannot seem to find the courage to move a muscle. He stares at his surviving nephew who only communicates with his eyes absolute horror at the events that have unfolded. Cornelius screams from downstairs, //"The cops are trying to come in the house!"// [[Punch the cop and knock him out. Hold him hostage.]] [[Stab and kill the cop]]

<img src="https://tulsahistory.org/wp//race-riot-page-2018/People-in-front-of-Convention-Center-1921.jpg" width="800" height="500" alt="Two foxes"> ''Now you and Cornelius will end up with the other residents who are subjected to temporary internment camps. For weeks you would be assigned to harsh labor cleaning after what the white mob destroyed and... //"Any Black person found on the street without a Green slip will be arrested and sent back to the detention camp//''...Tulsa, Oklahoma 1921 The Black Holocaust [[1921: Tulsa City Riots]] [[Credit]]

<img src="https://wp-media.patheos.com/blogs/sites/528/2015/02/Tulsa_Race_Riot__1921__Ok__Hist__Soc__.jpg" width="800" height="500" alt="Hello Cruel World"> //The 'Black holocaust' that occurred in 1921 Tulsa, Oklahoma subjected the African-American community to a variety of cruel violence that history often overlooks. This community based in the Greenwood District of the city of Tulsa was an economic marvel known as "Black Wall Street". A name rightfully given to one of the most affluent all-Black communities in America. Unfortunately, events would unfold which would decimate the homes, and livelihoods of these individuals. In a period spanning fewer than 12 hours, a once thriving 36-Black business district in northern Tulsa lay smoldering, and a major African-American economic movement resoundingly defused. The night's carnage left some 300 African-Americans dead, thousands more left wandering aimlessly and over 600 successful businesses lost. As one analyzes the events that transpired the culprit behind it all is identified as none other than the infamous Ku Klux Klan. The top officials of the city worked to bury this massacre through efforts that would diminish the truth and history now knows it as simply as a "riot". You will play as the fictitious character Lincoln Jefferson who is a returning war veteran hoping to make Tulsa his new home. As a new African-American resident in the commmunity you will have to make many choices as the events that create this debacle take place and you must survive Tulsa. The choices you choose will be based around historical events so please anticipate that surviving is very slim to none.// [[Bring it on]] [[Credit]]

Lincoln stabs the cop repeatedly in great rage after seeing his dead sister-in-law and niece. Cornelius is screaming, //The cops are here what's going on up there, we need to go!!// His brother is in obvious need of help shooting back at the cops trying to break down the door. Lincoln knows the burden of killing an officer is not one he can bring upon the remaining family members. [[Leave Tulsa without your brother]]

<img src="http://da1vkrwc1zgei.cloudfront.net/attachments/05f598ae549af54d9584a0d8c6e29949dafb06c1/store/fill/600/600/df91c4baf9d6edb3f4934be9657b13f47effdaf8d1e2efafe03070bbe88b/image" width="800" height="500" alt="Two foxes"> ''The city burns as you rush to make sense of the madness.'' Lincoln grabs the police officer fornicating with his dead sister-in-law. The dead child on the floor makes him want to kill the officer on site, but Cornelius is screaming to assist and help by shooting at the cops trying to break down the door. [[Use cop as a shield]]

<img src="https://thewriterfred.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/jb-stradford.jpg" width="800" height="500" alt="Two foxes"> //Lincoln: Hmmm, that's my boss Mr. Stradford. Is that the group Cornelius was talking about?// Cornelius proceeds to make quick conversation with J.B Stradford the prosperous black property owner of the Stradford hotel. //Cornelius: Lincoln, it looks like we plan on taking what few weapons we were able to bring together and meeting up with a larger group out front. You still comfortable handling a gun?// //Lincoln: Does the pope shit in the woods?// //Cornelius: Just take the gun.// As the group makes their way toward the front steps of the Downtown courthouse there appears to be a white man following the group. //Lincoln: Huh... what's his deal?// Suddenly, the White man moves and aggressively tries to disarm one of the members of the group. [[Gun buck the white fella]] [[Observe the altercation]]

<img src="https://atlantablackstar.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Screen-Shot-2014-12-01-at-4.54.53-PM.png" width="800" height="500" alt="Two foxes"> //Cornelius and Lincoln watch as the white man gets back up.// The white fella you gun buck is bamboozled and he exclaims to the group member, "N....! what are you doing with that pistol?" //"I'm going to use it if I need to."// //White man: "No, you give it to me."// //"Like hell I will."// he attempts to disarm Lincoln Jefferson comrade leads to the white man's demise and from that point the town's Sheriff is famously quoted to stating, //"The race war was on and I was powerless to stop it."// //Cornelius: Look we need to make our way outta here. Let them deal with this crap.// //Lincoln looks at the struggle between the towns law enforcement officials and the group outside the courthouse.// [[Retreat with the black mob]] [[Run back home]]

<img src="https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/tulsaworld.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/3/18/3186da6b-8147-5dcf-bb81-37d9193cf71e/5744ddfb42bf5.image.jpg?resize=400%2C474" width="800" height="500" alt="Two foxes"> As Lincoln Jefferson observes the altercation between his comrade and the aggressive white man, Sheriff McCullough shoots his gun in the air and the dramatic response startles both groups causing everyone to think on instinct with bullets flying between the groups. [[Return gun fire]] [[Run]]

<img src="http://america.aljazeera.com/content/ajam/articles/2014/7/19/survivors-of-infamous1921tulsaraceriotstillhopeforjustice/jcr:content/mainpar/adaptiveimage_0/src.adapt.960.high.tulsa_riots_fire2.1406030191283.jpg" width="800" height="500" alt="Two foxes"> ''The mob is burning the city down. Time is of the essence.'' Cornelius and Jefferson make it safely to Cornelius' home. Cornelius' wife is not present and they hear dramatic screaming. There appears to be someone crying in the upstairs room. Police officers pull up to the front of the house stating //"Y'all N.... in the house, c'mon out now or we gonna be knocking with bullets."// [[Go check the upstairs bedroom]] [[Leave out the back door]]

As Lincoln's group fight back at the white mob, Cornelius is shot in the leg. It is crucial that Cornelius seek medical attention. The remainder of the group communicate that they will hold off the White mob at the train tracks, but Lincoln knows they will have to make an effort to push through the violence. [[Battle at the train tracks]]

<img src="http://www.tulsaworld.com/app/race-riot/images/timeline_pic20.jpg" width="800" height="500" alt="Two foxes"> Seymour Williams, an Army veteran who rallies to Lincoln's position, states, //"Dem White folks gona put them birds to use very soon." The National Guard has shown up with two Lewis Machine guns atop mobile vehicles. Williams continues, "better to take up position on Greenwood Avenue."// [[Stay and fight the National Guard]] [[Run to get to your brother's house]]

<img src="https://tulsaraceriot.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/mgun2.jpg" width="800" height="500" alt="Two foxes"> ''The Lewis Machine guns and Royal aircrafts were too overwhelming for the small group still fighting alongside Lincoln and Cornelius. The town is bombed heavily from above and burns into the night. The aftermath sees tens of thousands of Greenwood residents displaced with no home and businesses destroyed.'' [[1921: Tulsa City Riots]] [[Credit]]

<img src="https://s-usih.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/tulsa-race-riot-1921.png" width="800" height="500" alt="Two foxes"> ''You've been captured by police. You will join many who were unfairly interned for simply being a different race.'' [[1921: Tulsa City Riots]] [[Credit]]

//Lincoln: There is no place safe for a black man in America?// [[Outnumbered, you make a decison.]]

''Works Cited:'' To learn more about the Tulsa Race riot copy this link to watch on YouTube on the event. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reN32ieWQpI Ellsworth, Scott. Death in a Promised Land: the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921. Louisiana State Univ. Press, 2001. https://thewriterfred.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/jb-stradford.jpg https://images.all-free-download.com/images/graphiclarge/cartoon_thought_bubble_54889.jpg https://thewriterfred.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/stradford-hotel.jpg https://eileenmaksym.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/stairs-205718_1280.jpg http://america.aljazeera.com/content/ajam/articles/2014/7/19/survivors-of-infamous1921tulsaraceriotstillhopeforjustice/jcr:content/mainpar/adaptiveimage_6/src.adapt.960.high.tulsa_riots_kkk.1406030191283.jpg https://tulsahistory.org/wp/wp-content/gallery/exhibit-transportation/main-street-with-streetcar-tracks-2002-580-001.jpg https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/tulsaworld.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/3/18/3186da6b-8147-5dcf-bb81-37d9193cf71e/5744ddfb42bf5.image.jpg?resize=400%2C474 http://sfbayview.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Tulsa-Race-Riot-Black-Wall-Street-Williams-Dreamland-Theatre-destroyed-060121-riot-by-Tulsa-Historical-Society.jpg https://d279m997dpfwgl.cloudfront.net/wp/2016/10/1004_riots-1000x771.jpg http://www.tulsaworld.com/app/race-riot/images/timeline_pic16.jpg http://da1vkrwc1zgei.cloudfront.net/attachments/05f598ae549af54d9584a0d8c6e29949dafb06c1/store/fill/600/600/df91c4baf9d6edb3f4934be9657b13f47effdaf8d1e2efafe03070bbe88b/image https://s-usih.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/tulsa-race-riot-1921.png https://tulsaraceriot.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/mgun2.jpg http://www.tulsaworld.com/app/race-riot/images/timeline_pic20.jpg https://tulsaraceriot.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/fullsizerender.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cb/TulsaRaceRiot-1921.png https://tulsahistory.org/wp//race-riot-page-2018/People-in-front-of-Convention-Center-1921.jpg

<img class="irc_mi" src="http://www.lostrailwayswestyorkshire.co.uk/images/donations/Richard%20Barnes/Holmfield%20Pellon/N24_A3.jpg" onload="typeof google==='object'&&google.aft&&google.aft(this)" width="499" height="335" style="margin-top: 13px;" alt="Image result for st paul's railway station halifax"> Lincoln, Cornelius and the group manage to hunker down in the frisco station. They meet Police Inspector Daley and another armed residents //Daley: Have you boys ever use them rifles before because we gotta make every bullet count.// //Lincoln: yessir, I fought in France with the "Harlem Hellfighters" as a sniper.// //Daley: Alright now, these white men in white cloats thinking we afraid of ghost, well we gonna turn them into what they pretending to be.// //Take sniper position// [[Take position on the roof]] [[stick close to your brother]]

<img class="irc_mi" src="https://nyblueprint.com/sites/default/files/styles/flexslider_full/public/cc9c35815f7f17040b3f9e1234da2de6-bell_0.jpg?itok=w3Jvk56P" alt="Image result for warsaw ghetto uprising fighters" onload="typeof google==='object'&&google.aft&&google.aft(this)" width="499" height="312" style="margin-top: 21px;"> you've taken position on the roof and Daley draws his pistol and states "//The world will know that free men stood against white supermacy, that few stood against many, and before this battle was over, even a white man can bleed like me.// //Cornelius: All crap we gonna die now// [[Stay and fight the National Guard]]

<img class="irc_mi" src="https://www.civilwaracademy.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Two-Black-Soldiers.jpg" alt="Related image" onload="typeof google==='object'&&google.aft&&google.aft(this)" width="499" height="432" style="margin-top: 36px;"> You've decided to stick with your brother and Daley instructed a friend to call the police station for assistance, but was informed that all of the police were either in the hills outside of town or out rounding up and interning blacks. Daley becomes infuriated of the news and draws his pistol, yelling at the white mob across the train tracks, //"I will shoot any member of the crowd who tries to advance"// After hearing the news Lincoln and Cornelius must make a split decision [[give them hell]] [[Run back home]]

<img class="JZUAbb" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-PRmP4p7cL40/XBdnfM0mXAI/AAAAAAAAATI/EJ-scmjSrVA-YMm-MKk90hrFNE3Z9TMTwCL0BGAs/w530-d-h437-n-rw/battlefield-1-scout%2B%25282%2529.jpg" height="437" width="530" alt="Photo"> <iframe width="" height="" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vNpq9zHZEzI?start=45" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture"></iframe> At 4:30am the combination of Lincoln, Cornelius and the armed black residents of the area managed to hold back this Frisco station for about one and a half hours. But around 6:00am the white mob rushed past the group en masse and invaded Black Tulsa //Cornelius: Jesus christ we are being sacked, we need to go.// //Lincoln: Alright we are gonna have to shoot are way out of this but we need to head back to your house and save your wife and kids.// Cornelius is afraid to go back but knows he needs to save the love of his life and kids. As he looks around and sees all of the merciless killings of his comrades, he begins to weep and shake as the leaves on a tree. //Lincoln: We need to make a decision Cornelius, we cannot stay here any longer or we are dead. Please make a decision!// Lincoln waits for his older brother to make the biggest decision of his life. [[Run back home]] [[Mystery]]

<img class="irc_mi" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C40HibpWAAA89i3.jpg" alt="Image result for tulsa riot of 1921" onload="typeof google==='object'&&google.aft&&google.aft(this)" width="495" height="353" style="margin-top: 0px;"> //Cornelius looks at Greenwood filled with smoke and rubble. Planes flying over the neighborhood, dropping TNT bombs on the homes. The never ending guilt to ever know his wife and kids made it out alive would forever cloud his judgement. He will always feel guilty for not returning back to save them. Lincoln is his brothers keeper and knows the consequences for trying to save them and he respects his brothers decision// //They find a way out through the woods where there is no presence of the enemy insight. There is a little boy up on their trail hiding behind a tree with his back facing Cornelius and Lincoln. The little boy turns around, hearing the sound of steps behind him. The kid looks at the two brothers and press his finger on his lips. Lincoln and Cornelius follows the commmand...// [[should they inspect with child]] [[take another trail out of the city]]

<img class="JZUAbb" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-v455yr-tR_M/XBgPUC5j5XI/AAAAAAAAAT8/l9IZaK1MR6EGdi0nSFavAQ9wDd07G48OQCL0BGAs/w530-d-h683-n-rw/73f32a35d811edc22fb77a726650175d%2B%25282%2529.jpg" height="683" width="530" alt="Photo"> //Southern trees bear strange fruit Blood on the leaves and blood at the root Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees// Lincoln, Cornelius and the boy are eventually notice by the white mob committing these atrocities and they share the same fate as them. //Lincoln: There is no place safe for a black man in America?// [[1921: Tulsa City Riots]] [[Credit]]

<img class="JZUAbb" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-jl53hcSE9LM/XBgTyTCG9pI/AAAAAAAAAUs/XRbf-HbTYF4wJvX4_7Q2_MN6o3WpxAqCgCL0BGAs/w530-d-h428-n-rw/87edc6df3506337a351c3d18e3b9552c.jpg" height="428" width="530" alt="Photo"> Lincoln and Cornelius decided it would be best to not entertain the mystery boy by the tree. They managed to escape the debacle unscathed but the mental and emotional tramau will forever be a wound never healed. [[1921: Tulsa City Riots]] [[Credit]]

//This game contains real historical events that might make people feel uncomfortable. Real events such as rape, lynching, that are incorporated into the game. If these are situations that will potentially make the player feel discomfort or if the player is a child, please read the game summary to gain a general understanding of the game before playing. Viewer discretion is advised.// [[1921: Tulsa City Riots]]