Death in a Promised Land
The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921
1st Edition
Published on 1. January 1992
184 pages
978-0-8071-5150-1 (ISBN)
Description
When a crows 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 about to be lynched. But in another part of town, a small group of black men, many of them World War I veterans, decided to risk lives for a different vision of justice. Before it was all over, Tulsa had erupted into one of America's worst racial nightmares, leaving scores dead and hundreds of homes and businesses destroyed. Exhaustively researched, 'Death in a Promised Land' is compelling story of racial ideologies, southwestern politics, and yellow journalism, and of an embattled black community's struggle to hold onto its land and freedom. More than just the chronicle of one of the nation's most devastating race riots, this critically acclaimed study of American race relations is, above all, a gripping story of terror and lawlessness, and of courage, hedonism, and human perserverance.
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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Foreword
- PRELUDE: In the Promised Land
- CHAPTER 1 Boom Cities
- CHAPTER 2 Race Relations and Local Violence
- CHAPTER 3 Race Riot
- CHAPTER 4 Law, Order, and the Politics of Relief
- CHAPTER 5 The Segregation of Memory
- EPILOGUE: Notes on the Subsequent History of "Deep Greenwood
- Appendix I
- Appendix II
- Notes
- Essay on Sources
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
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- F
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