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massacre, destruction, and the Tulsa race riot of 1921

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The burning

massacre, destruction, and the Tulsa race riot of 1921

1st ed.
  • 3 Want to read
  • 1 Currently reading

"On the morning of June 1, 1921, a white mob numbering in the thousands marched across the railroad tracks dividing black from white in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and obliterated a black community then celebrated as one of America's most prosperous. Thirty-four square blocks of Tulsa's Greenwood community, then known as the "Negro Wall Street of America," were reduced to smoldering rubble.".

"And now, eighty years later, the death toll of what is known as the Tulsa Race Riot is more difficult to pinpoint. Conservative estimates put the number of dead at about one hundred (75 percent of the victims are believed to have been black), but the actual number of casualties could be triple that.

The Tulsa Race Riot Commission, formed two years ago to determine exactly what happened, has recommended that restitution to the historic Greenwood community would be good public policy and do much to repair the emotional as well as physical scars of this horrific incident in our shared past.".

"The Burning re-creates the town of Greenwood at the height of its prosperity; explores the currents of hatred, racism, and mistrust between Tulsa's black residents and the neighboring white population; recounts the events leading up to and including the holocaust at Greenwood. Finally, it documents the subsequent silence that surrounded the tragedy."--BOOK JACKET.

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297

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Burning: The Massacre and Destruction, and the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921
July 2003, Tandem Library
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The Burning: Massacre, Destruction, and the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921
February 1, 2003, St. Martin's Griffin
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The Burning: Massacre, Destruction, and the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921
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Table of Contents

Machine generated contents note: 1. BEYOND HATRED'S REACH
2. LINCOLN'S DEVOTEE
3. DIAMOND DICK AND THE KKK
4. THE SHERIFF'S PROMISE
5. DOWN THE ROAD TO APOCALYPSE
6. BE READY AT DAYBREAK
7. THE ATTACK ON GREENWOOD
8. A SINGLE RUTHLESS ORGANISM
9. THE NEGRO ALAMO
10. ARE YOU DR. JACKSON?
11. SICK FROM WHAT I SEE
12. ASSIGNMENT OF A LIFETIME
13. SCORCHED EARTH
14. A CHRISTMAS CAROL
15. WHAT DO You SAY NOW?
THE VEIL LIFTED
CHAPTER NOTES
INDEX.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
976.6/86052
Library of Congress
F704.T92 M33 2001, F704.T92M33 2001

The Physical Object

Pagination
xix, 297 p., [16] p. of plates :
Number of pages
297

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3950034M
Internet Archive
burningmassacred0000madi
ISBN 10
0312272839
LCCN
2001041811
OCLC/WorldCat
47216580
Library Thing
518007
Goodreads
1290396

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