Tulsa Outrage
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For the 1921 race massacre, see Tulsa race massacre.
The Tulsa Outrage was an act of vigilante violence perpetrated by the Knights of Liberty — a group understood at the time to be a contemporaneous incarnation of the Ku Klux Klan[1] — against members of the Industrial Workers of the World on November 9, 1917 in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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Tulsa Outrage | |
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Part of United States home front during World War I | |
Location | Tulsa, Oklahoma |
Date | November 9, 1917 |
Target | Industrial Workers of the World |
Attack type | Vigilante tar and feather |
Weapons | guns |
Victims | 12 IWW members 5 defense witnesses |
Perpetrators | Knights of Liberty |
Assailants | W. Tate Brady and co-conspirators |
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