Once the Centennial was over and a single body with bullet holes was discovered in Oaklawn in late June 2021, things changed.

Pandemonium was loosed when the body finally dropped. The guards relaxed their grip and a mad dash ensued.

On November 10, 1917, a birth announcement for the “Modern Ku Klux Klan” appeared in a front-page headline of the Tulsa Daily World.

May 31, 1921 Tulsa police officials “feared the explosive combination of forces” resulting from the news of Diamond Dick Rowland’s arrest.

Claiming them to be dens of iniquity, the police had long cast a suspicious eye on negro rooming houses. The Rowland family ran a large one.