Reconstructing the Dreamland: The Tulsa Riot of 1921
Subtitle: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation
Contributors: Randall Kennedy (Foreword)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: February 14, 2003
Place of publication: New York, NY, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780195161038
Subjects: Race riots; Tulsa riots; Riot reparations
Genres: American history
First sentence: At the beginning of May 1921, 8,000 people lived in Greenwood, the black section of Tulsa, which was situated just north of the center of the "magic city," as Tulsa called itself.
Description: An analysis of the 1921 Tulsa riot, with special emphasis on legal issues about responsibilities and possible reparations.
Table of contents: title: Foreword
pagenum: ix; title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: xiii; title: Prologue
pagenum: xvii; label: 1
title: Seeking Justics and the Origin of the Riot
pagenum: 1; label: 2
title: "Thinking He Can Whip the World": The Riot
pagenum: 24; label: 3
title: Picturing the Riot
pagenum: 63; label: 4
title: "A White Wash Brush and a Big One in Operation in Tulsa": Tulsa Interprets the Riot
pagenum: 69; label: 5
title: Tulsa Will! Tulsa Will? Tulsa Will Dodge: The Failure or Reconstruction
pagenum: 88; title: Epilogue
pagenum: 103; title: Notes
pagenum: 121; title: Bibliographic Essay
pagenum: 177; title: Index
pagenum: 185