Tulsa Race Riot Timeline with Maps
The African-American section of Tulsa contained 191 businesses prior to the Race Riot of 1921, which included 15 doctors, a chiropractor, 2 dentists, and 3 laywers. The residents also had access to a library, 2 schools, a hospital, and a Tulsa Public Health Service. The Polk City Directory listed 159 businesses in 1920 and after the riot, in 1922, there were 120 businesses in the directory. In the City Directory in 1921 there were 1,149 residences and most of them were occupied by more than one person - or even one family; the 1920 directory reported 1,126 residences. After the riot, the 1922 directory listed 1,134 residences.
The Red Cross reported that 1,256 houses were burned, 215 houses were looted but not burned, and the total number of buildings not burned but looted and robbed were 314. The Tulsa Real Estate Exchange estimated $1.5 million worth of damages and one-third of that in the Black business district. The Exchange claimed personal property loss at $750,000. between June 14, 1921, and June 6, 1922, $1.8 million of claims were filed against the city of Tulsa and disallowed.
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