Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "Dick Rowland (AKA "Diamond Dick Rowland") (born c. 1902) was an African-American teen-age shoeshiner whose arrest in May 1921 was the impetus for the Tulsa Race Riot. When he was arrested for attempted assault, Rowland was 19 years old. The alleged victim of the assault was a 17-year-old white teenager named Sara Paige. Paige, who worked as an elevator operator, had eventually declined to prosecute. According to conflicting reports, the arrest was either prompted after Rowland tripped in an elevator on his way to a segregated bathroom, and a white store clerk misconstrued the incident as an "assault" or a rape."@en }
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- Dick_Rowland abstract "Dick Rowland (AKA "Diamond Dick Rowland") (born c. 1902) was an African-American teen-age shoeshiner whose arrest in May 1921 was the impetus for the Tulsa Race Riot. When he was arrested for attempted assault, Rowland was 19 years old. The alleged victim of the assault was a 17-year-old white teenager named Sara Paige. Paige, who worked as an elevator operator, had eventually declined to prosecute. According to conflicting reports, the arrest was either prompted after Rowland tripped in an elevator on his way to a segregated bathroom, and a white store clerk misconstrued the incident as an "assault" or a rape.".