me demanded a redistribution of economic resources, especially land, because as a convention of Alabama freedmen put it in a formal resolution, "the property which they hold was nearly earned by the sweat of our brows." Others simply asked for legal equality, confident that given the same opportunities as white citizens they could advance successfully in American society. (Brinkley 509) The majority of African-American people only wanted total independence from whites. They created organizations that were solely for blacks; schools, churches, and many other types of groups. As another step up for African-American people, the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments became a part of the U.S. Constitution in 1866 and 1870. The fifteenth amendment was important in theory, but in practice it had little effect on black suffrage for many years. (Brinkley 515) The U.S. had a lot of rebuilding to do, and it was the merely the beginning of cultural clashes in this country.
             World War I started many social changes, and began a colossal migratory movement of black people from the south to better economically developed places; such as Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, and Boston. As the population of African-American's grew, whites began to fear that they would lose their jobs, they were in fear of their lives, and because of the racial tension, twenty-six race riots broke out in 1919 alone. On May 31, 1921 Tulsa, Okalahoma rioting began over a young black man and a white female elevator operator in the Drexel Building at Third and Main Streets. It was alleged by the woman that the man grabbed her by the arm in the elevator and she struck him about the head with her purse. City police arrested him that afternoon. Rumors began to spread that the young man was going to be lynched that evening, and a lyn
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