Riot and remembrance : the Tulsa race war and its legacy /

Riot and remembrance : the Tulsa race war and its legacy / James S. Hirsch.

Offers an account of the 1921 race riot that destroyed the Greenwood section of Tulsa, Oklahoma, leaving hundreds of black residents dead, and describes the battle for belated justice and reparations for the victims.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hirsch, James S. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 2002.
Subjects:
African Americans > Oklahoma > Tulsa > History > 20th century.
Racism > Oklahoma > Tulsa > History > 20th century.
Riots > Oklahoma > Tulsa > History > 20th century.
Violence > Oklahoma > Tulsa > History > 20th century.
African American neighborhoods > Oklahoma > Tulsa > History > 20th century.
Racism.
Simmons University. > Library. > Gifts. Ritch.
Tulsa (Okla.) > Race relations.
Table of Contents:
  • Beginnings
  • The self-made oil capital
  • The promised land
  • Race, rape, and the rope
  • Mob justice
  • The riot
  • When hell broke loose
  • The invasion
  • The legacy
  • Blame and betrayal
  • Rising from the ashes
  • The rise of the secret order
  • A culture of silence
  • "Money, Negro"
  • It happened in Tulsa
  • Bridging the racial divide
  • A commemoration
  • The last man vindicated
  • The disappeared of Tulsa
  • The age of reparations
  • The last pioneer
  • The survivors
  • Riot and remembrance.

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