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Tulsa, 1921 - Reporting a Massacre (Paperback)
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Tulsa, 1921 - Reporting a Massacre (Paperback)
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In 1921 Tulsa's Greenwood District, known then as the nation's
'Black Wall Street,' was one of the most prosperous African
American communities in the United States. But on May 31 of that
year, a white mob, inflamed by rumors that a young Black man had
attempted to rape a white teenage girl, invaded Greenwood. By the
end of the following day, thousands of homes and businesses lay in
ashes, and perhaps as many as three hundred people were dead.
Tulsa, 1921 shines new light into the shadows that have long been
cast over this extraordinary instance of racial violence. With the
clarity and descriptive power of a veteran journalist, author Randy
Krehbiel digs deep into the events and their aftermath and
investigates decades-old questions about the local culture at the
root of what one writer has called a white-led pogrom. Krehbiel
analyzes local newspaper accounts in an unprecedented effort to
gain insight into the minds of contemporary Tulsans. In the process
he considers how the Tulsa World, the Tulsa Tribune, and other
publications contributed to the circumstances that led to the
disaster and helped solidify enduring white justifications for it.
Some historians have dismissed local newspapers as too biased to be
of value for an honest account, but by contextualizing their
reports, Krehbiel renders Tulsa's papers an invaluable resource,
highlighting the influence of news media on our actions in the
present and our memories of the past. The Tulsa Massacre was a
result of racial animosity and mistrust within a culture of
political and economic corruption. In its wake, Black Tulsans were
denied redress and even the right to rebuild on their own property,
yet they ultimately prevailed and even prospered despite systemic
racism and the rise during the 1920s of the second Ku Klux Klan. As
Krehbiel considers the context and consequences of the violence and
devastation, he asks, Has the city - indeed, the nation - exorcised
the prejudices that led to this tragedy?
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