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Tulsa Race Riot

The contemporaneous news accounts of air activity are a great addition to the article! Someone will probably come along with a ^{[citation needed]}, though, so I hope there's a link somewhere with more details. I left Tulsa in the mid '80s, just as interest in the race riots was starting to pick up, so it's good to see the information coming together. Now, if only someone could find a copy of that local paper... --Robertb-dc 19:10, 18 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know of any citation on the net, though here's the quote from the Tulsa Tribune I was referring to: "The men in the air were alert for movements of negores in the sections where shots were being fired from sniping stations at the advancing whites, and they often dipped low in their planes to pick out the exact positions of the barricades."

Oh, also--you're right about the missing paper. I doubt at this point it'll ever turn up, but like you'd, I would love to see it!

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