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Dick Rowland

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Date of birth January 1,1902
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About Dick Rowland


Dick Rowland or Roland was an African-American teenage shoeshiner whose arrest for assault in May 1921 was the impetus for the Tulsa race massacre. Rowland was 19 years old at the time. The alleged victim of the assault was a white 17-year-old elevator operator Sarah Page. She had declined to prosecute.

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