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#BlackColonizer | #BlackWallSt: "To Provide Homes for Tulsa Negroes," June 3, 1921

One Plan Under Consideration is to Establish New Negro Colony — The Known Dead Fixed at 30

One Plan Under Consideration is to Establish New Negro Colony — The Known Dead Fixed at 30

“Tulsa, Okla., June 3. --Definite plans for building homes for the thousand negroes rendered destitute by the burning of the negro quarters here in the race war Tuesday night and Wednesday are being worked out today by a civilian relief committee. The number of known dead is fixed at 30 and several hundred wounded. The property loss is $1,500,000.”

Biloxi Daily Herald June 3, 1921