Reconstructing the Dreamland The Tulsa Riot of 1921: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation

Name: Reconstructing the Dreamland The Tulsa Riot of 1921: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation
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ISBN: 9780195161038

ISBN-10: 0195161033

ISBN-13: 9780195161038

Edition: 2003

Authors: Alfred L. Brophy, Randall Kennedy

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The 1921 Tulsa Race Riot was the country's bloodiest civil disturbance of the century. Thirty city blocks were burned to the ground, perhaps 150 died, and the prosperous black community of Greenwood, Oklahoma, was turned to rubble. Brophy draws on his own extensive research into contemporary accounts and court documents to chronicle this devastating riot, showing how and why the rule of law quickly eroded. Brophy shines his lights on mob violence and racism run amok, both on the night of the riot and the following morning. Equally important, he shows how the city government and police not only permitted looting, shootings, and the burning of Greenwood, but actively participated in it by…

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List price: $19.99
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/10/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Foreword



Acknowledgements


Prologue



Seeking Justice and the Origins of the Riot



""Thinking He Can Whip The World"": The Riot



Picturing the Riot



""A White Wash Brush and a Big One in Operation in Tulsa"": Tulsa Interprets the Riot



Tulsa Will! Tulsa Will? Tulsa Will Dodge: The Failure of Reconstruction


Epilogue


Notes