Riot and Remembrance: America's Worst Race Riot and Its Legacy

by James S. Hirsch Mariner Books 6/6/2003, paperback SKU: 9780618340767   A buried part of history comes to light in this informative account of the Black wallstreet massacre in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1921. A best-selling author investigates the causes of the twentieth century's deadliest race riot and how its legacy has scarred and shaped a community over the past eight decades. On a warm night in May 1921, thousands of whites, many deputized by the local police, swarmed through the Greenwood section of Tulsa, Oklahoma, killing scores of blacks, looting, and ultimately burning the neighborhood to the ground. In the aftermath, as many as 300 were dead, and 6,000 Greenwood residents were herded into detention camps. James Hirsch focuses on the de facto apartheid that brought about the Greenwood riot and informed its eighty-year legacy, offering an unprecedented examination of how a calamity spawns bigotry and courage and how it has propelled one community's belated search for justice. Tuls