Death in a Promised Land: The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 by Scott Ellsworth

Death in a Promised Land: The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921

Scott Ellsworth

184 pages first pub 1982 (editions)

nonfiction history emotional informative reflective slow-paced
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When a crowd began to gather outside the jail in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on the evening of May 31, 1921, the fate of one of its prisoners, a young black male, seemed assured. Accused of attempting to rape a white woman, Dick Rowland was with little doubt...

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