How might this experience have changed the attitude and outlook of the black community in Tulsa, and how might this have changed the reaction of black Tulsans to white violence, especially after seeing the destruction World War I caused in Europe ?

On May 30, 1921, a black messenger and shoe-shine boy named Dick Rowland entered an elevator in the Drexel Building in the business district of Tulsa, Oklahoma. There, he accidentally bumped into a white woman, seventeen-year-old Sarah Page, causing her to flee in panic. The next day the Tulsa Tribune reported the incident as a rape, leading to Rowland’s arrest. When African-Americans went to the courthouse to protect Rowland from a false conviction and a white lynch mob, white Tulsans launched a battle against the African-American crowds. The escalating violence that day and the next destroyed the prosperous African-American business district of Tulsa and made this 1921 riot the deadliest in American history. Analyze the Images below and use the search to find the entry in the online encyclopedia of Oklahoma history and culture that tells the story of the riot.African American Soldiers in World War Ihttps://services.wwnorton.com/aws/image?file=/wwnorton.college.public/history/am-docs/african-american-soldiers.JPG (Links to an external site.)Statue of Liberty as Gallowshttps://services.wwnorton.com/aws/image?file=/wwnorton.college.public/history/am-docs/statue-of-liberty-gallows.JPGOHS Publications Divisionhttp://www.okhistory.org/publications/ (Links to an external site.)A. Discussion Activities:Why would a harmless incident like the encounter between Rowland and Page cause such outrage? How might issues of sex and gender help us understand the racial anxieties that transpired here?The neighborhood flattened by the riots was the prosperous black business district of Greenwood. Why did Tulsa whites target this area?A number of African-American men who went to the Tulsa courthouse to protect Rowland from being lynched were veterans of World War I. How might this experience have changed the attitude and outlook of the black community in Tulsa, and how might this have changed the reaction of black Tulsans to white violence, especially after seeing the destruction World War I caused in Europe ? Please emphasize this last point in your response as this is a chapter on World War I.