Riot and remembrance : the Tulsa race war and its legacy / James S. Hirsch.

Author/creator Hirsch, James S. author.
Format Book
EditionAdvance uncorrected proof.
PublicationBoston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 2001.
Copyright Date©2002
Descriptionviii, 343 pages ; 23 cm
Supplemental ContentSample text
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Supplemental ContentContributor biographical information
Supplemental ContentPublisher description
Subjects
Tulsa Race Massacre, Tulsa, Okla., 1921.
African Americans--Oklahoma. --Tulsa. --History. --20th century.
Racism against Black people--Oklahoma. --Tulsa. --History. --20th century.
Riots--Oklahoma. --Tulsa. --History. --20th century.
Violence--Oklahoma. --Tulsa. --History. --20th century.
African American neighborhoods--Oklahoma. --Tulsa. --History. --20th century.
Tulsa (Okla.)--Race relations.

Contents Beginnings -- The self-made oil capital -- The promised land -- Race, rape, and the rope -- Mob justice -- The riot -- When hell broke loose -- The invasion -- The legacy -- Blame and betrayal -- Rising from the ashes -- The rise of the secret order -- A culture of silence -- "Money, Negro" -- It happened in Tulsa -- Bridging the racial divide -- A commemoration -- The last man vindicated -- The disappeared of Tulsa -- The age of reparations -- The last pioneer -- The survivors -- Riot and remembrance.
Abstract Offers an account of the 1921 race riot that destroyed the Greenwood section of Tulsa, Oklahoma, leaving hundreds of black residents dead, and describes the battle for belated justice and reparations for the victims.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 333-339).
Digital Bookplate Bookplate for Gene and Susan Roberts
Acquisitions source Joyner Rare copy gift of Gene and Susan Roberts, 2016.
Issued in other formOnline version: Hirsch, James S. Riot and remembrance. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2002
Genre/formHistory.
ISBN0618108130
ISBN9780618108138