num_pages: 323
description:  And then they were gone. More than one thousand homes and businesses. Restaurants and movie theaters churches and doctors' offices a hospital a public library a post office. Looted burned and bombed from the air.Over the course of less than twenty-four hours in the spring of 1921 Tulsa's infamous Black Wall Street was wiped off the map--and erased from the history books. Official records were disappeared researchers were threatened and the worst single incident of racial violence in American history was kept hidden for more than fifty years. But there were some secrets that would not die.A riveting and essential new book The Ground Breaking not only tells the long-suppressed story of the notorious Tulsa Race Massacre. It also unearths the lost history of how the massacre was covered up and of the courageous individuals who fought to keep the story alive. Most importantly it recounts the ongoing archaeological saga and the search for the unmarked graves of the victims of the massacre and of the fight to win restitution for the survivors and their families.Both a forgotten chronicle from the nation's past and a story ripped from today's headlines The Ground Breaking is a page-turning reflection on how we as Americans must wrestle with the parts of our history that have been buried for far too long.
language: English
title: The Ground Breaking: An American City and Its Search for Justice
publisher: Dutton