The burning
Subtitle: massacre, destruction, and the Tulsa race riot of 1921
By: Tim Madigan.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
Subjects: African Americans -- Oklahoma -- Tulsa -- History -- 20th century.; African American neighborhoods -- Oklahoma -- Tulsa -- History -- 20th century.; Riots -- Oklahoma -- Tulsa -- History -- 20th century.; Violence -- Oklahoma -- Tulsa -- History -- 20th century.; Racism -- Oklahoma -- Tulsa -- History -- 20th century.; Tulsa (Okla.) -- Race relations.
Description: "On the morning of June 1, 1921, a white mob numbering in the thousands marched across the railroad tracks dividing black from white in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and obliterated a black community then celebrated as one of America's most prosperous. Thirty-four square blocks of Tulsa's Greenwood community, then known as the "Negro Wall Street of America," were reduced to smoldering rubble.".

"And now, eighty years later, the death toll of what is known as the Tulsa Race Riot is more difficult to pinpoint. Conservative estimates put the number of dead at about one hundred (75 percent of the victims are believed to have been black), but the actual number of casualties could be triple that.

The Tulsa Race Riot Commission, formed two years ago to determine exactly what happened, has recommended that restitution to the historic Greenwood community would be good public policy and do much to repair the emotional as well as physical scars of this horrific incident in our shared past.".

"The Burning re-creates the town of Greenwood at the height of its prosperity; explores the currents of hatred, racism, and mistrust between Tulsa's black residents and the neighboring white population; recounts the events leading up to and including the holocaust at Greenwood. Finally, it documents the subsequent silence that surrounded the tragedy."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1. BEYOND HATRED'S REACH; title: 2. LINCOLN'S DEVOTEE; title: 3. DIAMOND DICK AND THE KKK; title: 4. THE SHERIFF'S PROMISE; title: 5. DOWN THE ROAD TO APOCALYPSE; title: 6. BE READY AT DAYBREAK; title: 7. THE ATTACK ON GREENWOOD; title: 8. A SINGLE RUTHLESS ORGANISM; title: 9. THE NEGRO ALAMO; title: 10. ARE YOU DR. JACKSON?; title: 11. SICK FROM WHAT I SEE; title: 12. ASSIGNMENT OF A LIFETIME; title: 13. SCORCHED EARTH; title: 14. A CHRISTMAS CAROL; title: 15. WHAT DO You SAY NOW?; title: THE VEIL LIFTED; title: CHAPTER NOTES; title: INDEX.