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Yes! I learned about this earlier this year in one of my African American Studies courses. Tulsa was just one of the many places where race riots occured. Between 1919 and 1921, around 10 or 11 riots broke out causing thousands of deaths, burning, and lynchings including Rosewood and Tulsa. The bulk of them happened in the middle of 1919 which is called the "Red Summer." We watched a video with Tulsa witnesses who were very young when it happened. One woman said her mother made all her brothers and sisters hide under the bed as a mob of angry white men charged in their house and set the curtains on fire. When they left, her mother gathered them up and ran.
Also, it was started because a black man bumped into a white woman on the elevator. The media scrambled the information and said that a white woman was "raped" by a black man in the elevator. Things went crazy from there. Even the huge Baptist church that was just completed was burned. It's so sad that this happened and it isn't even documented.
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