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The Ground Breaking - The Tulsa Race Massacre and an American City's Search for Justice (Hardcover)
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The Ground Breaking - The Tulsa Race Massacre and an American City's Search for Justice (Hardcover)
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List price R536
Loot Price R438
Discovery Miles 4 380
You Save R98 (18%)
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** 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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