"A compelling page-turner that will keep readers hoping against
hope that everything will somehow, magically, turn out for the
best." - Atlanta Journal-Constitution With a new Afterword from the
author reflecting on the 100th anniversary of one of the most
heinous tragedies in American history-the 1921 burning of
Greenwood, an affluent black section of Tulsa, Oklahoma, known as
the "Negro Wall Street"-Jewell Parker Rhodes' powerful and
unforgettable novel of racism, vigilantism, and injustice, weaves
history, mysticism, and murder into a harrowing tale of dreams and
violence gone awry. Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1921. A white woman and a
black man are alone in an elevator. Suddenly, the woman screams,
the man flees, and the chase to capture and lynch him begins. When
Joe Samuels, a young Black man with dreams of becoming the next
Houdini, is accused of rape, he must perform his greatest escape by
eluding a bloodthirsty mob. Meanwhile, Mary Keane, the white,
motherless daughter of a farmer who wants to marry her off to the
farmhand who viciously raped her, must find the courage to help
exonerate the man she accused with her panicked cry. Magic City
evokes one of the darkest chapters of twentieth century, Jim Crow
America, painting an intimate portrait of the heroic but doomed
stand that pitted the National Guard against a small band of black
men determined to defend the prosperous town they had built.
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