ISBN:
9780593182987
Language:
English
Pages:
321 Seiten
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Illustration
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Ellsworth, Scott (Historian) Ground breaking
DDC:
305.8009766/86
Keywords:
Tulsa Race Massacre, Tulsa, Okla., 1921
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African Americans Violence against 20th century
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History
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Exhumation History 21st century
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Forensic archaeology History 21st century
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African Americans Reparations 21st century
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History
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Greenwood (Tulsa, Okla.) Race relations 20th century
;
History
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Greenwood (Tulsa, Okla.) History 20th century
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Tulsa (Okla.) Race relations 20th century
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History
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Massaker von Tulsa
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Forensik
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Vergangenheitsbewältigung
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Ethnische Beziehungen
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Geschichte 1921-2021
Abstract:
"The definitive, newsbreaking account of the ongoing investigation into the Tulsa race massacre In the late spring of 1921, Tulsa, Oklahoma, erupted into the worst single incident of racial violence in American history. Over the course of sixteen hours, mobs of white men and women looted and burned to the ground a prosperous African American community, known today as Black Wall Street. More than one thousand homes and businesses were destroyed, and scores, possibly hundreds, of people lost their lives. Then, for nearly a half century, the story of the massacre was actively suppressed. Official records disappeared, history textbooks ignored the tragedy, and citizens were warned to keep silent. Now nearly one hundred years after that horrible day, historian Scott Ellsworth returns to his hometown to tell the untold story of how America's foremost hidden racial tragedy was finally brought to light, and the unlikely cast of characters that made it happen. Part true-crime saga, part archaeological puzzle, and part investigative journalism, The Ground Breaking weaves in and out of recent history, the distant past, and the modern day to tell a compelling story of a city-and a nation-struggling to come to terms with the dark corners of its past"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
