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

Tim Madigan

ISBN 10: 0312302479 / ISBN 13: 9780312302474

Editore: St. Martin's Griffin February 2003, 2003

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• Titolo: The Burning: Massacre, Destruction, and the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921
• Editore: St. Martin's Griffin February 2003
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0312302479
• ISBN 13: 9780312302474
• Rilegatura: Trade Paperback
• Condizione: Very Good - Cash
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • American History

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“A powerful book, a harrowing case study made all the more so by Madigan's skillful, clear-eyed telling of it.” —Adam Nossiter, The New York Times Book Review

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.

Informazioni sull'autore

Tim Madigan is an award-winning writer with the Fort Worth Star-Telegram who in both 1996 and 1997 was named Texas Reporter of the Year in the state's most prestigious journalism competition. He is the author of See No Evil: Blind Devotion and Bloodshed in David Koresh's Holy War