The claim: The Tulsa riot of 1921 that destroyed the city's all-Black district was the worst riot in U.S. history but it can't be found in any history books. Our rating: Partly false
in 1991 that followed the acquittal of four police officers in the beating of Rodney King. More than 60 people died and the rioting causedEllsworth, noting the deaths, the intensity of the melee, and the widespread destruction, calls the massacre"the largest single incident of racial violence in American history."While difficult to determine if the use of airplanes during the Tulsa massacre was the first such incident involving a U.S.
“I could see planes circling in midair," the elder Franklin wrote."They grew in number and hummed, darted and dipped low. I could hear something like hail falling upon the top of my office building. Down East Archer, I saw the old Mid-Way hotel on fire, burning from its top, and then another and another and another building began to burn from their top."“The sidewalks were literally covered with burning turpentine balls.
A footnote to the report again expresses skepticism over the wide use of incendiary devices from the air, but says "the evidence does indicate that some form of aerial bombardment took place in Tulsa on the morning of June 1, 1921 — thus making Tulsa, in all probability, the first U.S. city bombed from the air."This is difficult to assess, since the exact death toll is not known.
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