Before Rodney King, before the riots in Cincinnati, before Newark and Detroit and Watts, there was the Tulsa race war. On May 30, 1921, a misunders...
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Jul 11, 2011
Vheissu
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James Hirsch has written perhaps the definitive study of the 1921 race war in Tulsa, the racial and economic context of the conflict, its long-term consequences, and the empty victory that was the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot Reconciliation Act. His work has dramatically altered my own views of the event. Like most Oklahomans (I grew up in northern Okmulgee County, only 22 miles from Greenwood), I knew nothing about these events until the state established the Oklahoma Commission to Study the Tulsa Race
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Apr 20, 2011
Walter
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This is a very impressive book in that it deals credibly with a subject - the Tulsa/Greenwood Race Riot - that has frankly been ignored by history. It's clear that the author has done extensive research and has gone out of his way to be even-handed in his treatment of the subject. In so doing, he creates a vivid portrait of one of the most unfortunate and shameful incidents in 20th century American history and I am grateful for his effort.
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Jul 02, 2011
Theophilus
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Extremely detailed and informative. Like the Atlanta riot of 1906, the Tulsa riot was perpetrated by whites against the black residents of the city and has been mostly swept under the rug of history by the mainstream media. The author dug up newspaper articles that had been redacted and deleted by the leading Tulsa newspapers and used firsthand accounts to build a narrative of an incident in which black people armed themselves and said there will be no lynching tonight. Of course there is no hap
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Mar 20, 2008
Laura
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I learned about the Tulsa Race Riot. Since I grew up in Tulsa, I knew the basic story, but this book made the context more clear.
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