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

by Tim Madigan

From Slavery to Freedom (McGraw Hill, 1994).

The Fiery Cross: The Ku Klux Klan in America (Simon and Schuster, 1987); Only Yesterday: an Informal History of the 1920s, by Frederick Lewis Allen (Harper and Row, 1957); Joseph Cartwright’s The Triumph of Jim Crow: Tennessee Race Relations in the 1880s (University of Tennessee Press, 1976); and The Unknown Soldiers: Black American Troops in World War I, by Arthur E. Barbeau and Florette Henri (Temple University Press, 1974).

Death in a Promised Land: The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 (LSU Press, 1982)

Fear, The Fifth Horseman: A Documentary and Anthology on the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot.

“Eldoris, wake up! We have to go!” Harriet Ector shrieked to her daughter on that beautiful spring morning of June 1, 1921. “The white people are killing the colored folks!”