PEOPLE IN HISTORY as mentioned on LOVECRAFT COUNTRY:
Horace Taylor single-handedly killed dozens of white attackers on the south side of Standpipe Hill after most of his fellow Greenwood residents abandoned the fight in order to save their homes and families. The story told is that Taylor braced himself with his peg leg while fending off white attackers alone for more than six hours that night.
The most prominent Tulsan killed in the massacre was Dr. A.C. Jackson, a 40-year-old surgeon christened the most able Negro surgeon in America by the Mayo brothers (of Mayo Clinic fame). According to Jackson’s white neighbor, Jackson had raised his hands to surrender to a group of whites when two of them shot Jackson dead in what the neighbor called “cold-blooded murder.“
A white couple named Merrill and Ruth Phelps hid and fed black victims in the basement of their home for days. The Phelps home, which still stands, became something of a “safe house” for black Tulsans who had managed not to be imprisoned by the white authorities.
Commodore Knox is believed to be the last victim of the Tulsa massacre.
