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

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

Tim Madigan

304 pages first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction history race emotional reflective slow-paced
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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 squar...

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