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

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

trigger warnings: racism, torture, homelessness, death of loved ones, murder

This was enlightening. Intense and gruesome but wholly a necessary read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Blood, Body horror, Car accident, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Medical content, Murder, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, Torture, and Violence