The Ground Breaking
The Tulsa Race Massacre and an American City's Search for Justice
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- English
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The Ground Breaking
The Tulsa Race Massacre and an American City's Search for Justice
About this book
** Chosen by Oprah Daily as one of the Best Books to Pick Up in May 2021 ** 'Fast-paced but nuanced... impeccably researched... a much-needed book' The Guardian ''[S]o dystopian and apocalyptic that you can hardly believe what you are reading.... But the story [it] tells is an essential one, with just a glimmer of hope in it. Because of the work of Ellsworth and many others, America is finally staring this appalling chapter of its history in the face. It's not a pretty sight.' Sunday Times A gripping exploration of the worst single incident of racial violence in American history, timed to coincide with its 100th anniversary.On 31 May 1921, in the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, a mob of white men and women reduced a prosperous African American community, known as Black Wall Street, to rubble, leaving countless dead and unaccounted for, and thousands of homes and businesses destroyed.But along with the bodies, they buried the secrets of the crime. Scott Ellsworth, a native of Tulsa, became determined to unearth the secrets of his home town. Now, nearly 40 years after his first major historical account of the massacre, Ellsworth returns to the city in search of answers. Along with a prominent African American forensic archaeologist whose family survived the riots, Ellsworth has been tasked with locating and exhuming the mass graves and identifying the victims for the first time. But the investigation is not simply to find graves or bodies - it is a reckoning with one of the darkest chapters of American history.'[A] riveting, painful-to-read account of a mass crime that, to our everlasting shame... has avoided justice. Ellsworth's book presents us with a clear history of the Tulsa massacre and with that rendering, a chance for atonement... Readers of this book will fervently hope we take that opportunity.' Washington Post
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INDEX
- A. H. (massacre survivor), 1
- Abbot, H. O., 1
- ABC News Nightline (TV show), 1
- African American newspapers. See Chicago Defender; Oklahoma Eagle; Oklahoma Sun; Tulsa Star
- African Ancestral Society, 1
- African Burial Ground (New York City), 1
- Aiyetoro, Adjoa, 1
- Alexander v. Oklahoma, 1
- Alford, Brenda, 1, 2
- Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building bombing (1995), 1
- Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, 1
- American Historical Association, 1
- American Legion, machine gun of, 1
- American Library Association, 1
- American Red Cross, 1
- America’s Kids (Oklahoma City), 1
- Anderson, Evelyn, 1
- Anderson, W. L., 1
- Angel (homeless woman), 1, 2, 3, 4
- archaeologists. See burial ground search
- Archaeo-Physics, 1
- Arnley, Calvin, 1
- Aronson, Diana, 1
- Art’s Chili Parlor, 1
- Ashby, Guy, 1
- Askew, Rilla, 1
- Associated Press (AP), 1
- The Atlantic (magazine), 1
- Avery, Ruth, 1
- Baccus, Terry, 1
- Bakke, Allan, 1
- Ballard, Cur...
Table of contents
- Praise
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- A Note from the Author
- Prologue
- BOOK ONE
- BOOK TWO
- BOOK THREE
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
- Plates
- About the Author
- Also by Scott Ellsworth
- Copyright