Racial Violence and Destruction: A Dark Chapter

No report about what happens to his wife and kids. Many of the blacks people homes were being burned down. According to Walter White another angry white mob trapped a five colored people in a burning house. Four of them burned to death, one was able to escape but was shot down and thrown back in the fire. As the mobs continued on destroying and killing all through downtown, one of the them were lead by a printing plant employee who was paid forty-eight dollars a week; set fire and destroyed the printing planting. Killed while attacking the plant (Walter White). The white rioters continued on and set homes, buildings on fire which spread heavily (Gates). Gates continued that armed whites broke into homes and businesses and forcing everybody

Now they have to deal with the aftermath of the riot. All the blacks were rounded up, and taken to detention centers at the Convention Hall (Brandy Theater), Mcnully Park, and the Fairgrounds. There was $1.5 million to $2 million property damage in Greenwood. At that time a good house could be built for less than thousand dollars (Krehbiel). May not seem much to us now but back then that was a lot of money. Very few houses survived, some churches and even Booker T. Washington High School survived. According to Red Cross they total up that 1,256 homes were burned and 215 were looted but not destroyed. Now with how many people died? Well there’s really not an accurate death toll but at first they reported only about 30 people died but soon change to about 300 people. My opinion is that with that many armed white people and shooting at many unarmed blacks the number had to be at least over thousand to three thousand but of course they like to keep the number low just like how they like to keep this riot on the low. Some people reported that the dead weren’t dead and some “slightly injured” which as plain as day they were actually dead. One story was they put bodies of the dead “loaded on trucks, dumped in the Arkansas River, thrown down mines shafts, and burned in the city incinerator.” This was never confirmed but I believe it to be true. One of the officer’s action report ‘forgot’ to mention that the OKC units, a machine gun company were