9780312302474-0312302479-The Burning: Massacre, Destruction, and the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921

The Burning: Massacre, Destruction, and the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921

ISBN-13: 9780312302474
ISBN-10: 0312302479
Edition: First Edition
Author: Tim Madigan
Publication date: 2003
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Paperback 320 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780312302474
ISBN-10: 0312302479
Edition: First Edition
Author: Tim Madigan
Publication date: 2003
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Paperback 320 pages

Summary

The Burning: Massacre, Destruction, and the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 (ISBN-13: 9780312302474 and ISBN-10: 0312302479), written by authors Tim Madigan, was published by St. Martin's Griffin in 2003. With an overall rating of 4.4 stars, it's a notable title among other Black & African Americans (United States History, State & Local, Americas History) books. You can easily purchase or rent The Burning: Massacre, Destruction, and the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Black & African Americans books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.6.

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As seen on the HBO series Watchmen!

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. 34 square blocks of Tulsa's Greenwood community, known then as the Negro Wall Street of America, were reduced to smoldering rubble.

And now, 80 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 100 (75% 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 most terrible incident in our shared past.

With chilling details, humanity, and the narrative thrust of compelling fiction, The Burning will recreate the town of Greenwood at the height of its prosperity, explore the currents of hatred, racism, and mistrust between its black residents and neighboring Tulsa's white population, narrate events leading up to and including Greenwood's annihilation, and document the subsequent silence that surrounded the tragedy.

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