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Nearly 100 Years Later, Tulsa Race Massacre to Be Observed

TULSA - On a rainy Memorial Day in 1921, a black teen named Dick Rowland entered the Drexel Building’s elevator where he encountered Ms. Sarah Page. For reasons still unknown, Page, a white 17-year-old elevator operator cried out.