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On the evening of May 31, 1921, and in the early morning hours of
June 1, several thousand white citizens and authorities violently
attacked the African American Greenwood District of Tulsa,
Oklahoma. In the course of some twelve hours of mob violence, white
Tulsans reduced one of the nation's most prosperous black
communities to rubble and killed an estimated 300 people, mostly
African Americans. This richly illustrated volume, featuring more
than 175 photographs, along with oral testimonies, shines a new
spotlight on the race massacre from the vantage point of its
victims and survivors. Historian and Black Studies professor Karlos
K. Hill presents a range of photographs taken before, during, and
after the massacre, mostly by white photographers. Some of the
images are published here for the first time. Comparing these
photographs to those taken elsewhere in the United States of
lynchings, the author makes a powerful case for terming the 1921
outbreak not a riot but a massacre. White civilians, in many cases
assisted or condoned by local and state law enforcement,
perpetuated a systematic and coordinated attack on Black Tulsans
and their property. Despite all the violence and devastation, black
Tulsans rebuilt the Greenwood District brick by brick. By the
mid-twentieth century, Greenwood had reached a new zenith, with
nearly 250 Black-owned and Black-operated businesses. Today the
citizens of Greenwood, with support from the broader community,
continue to work diligently to revive the neighborhood once known
as 'Black Wall Street.' As a result, Hill asserts, the most
important legacy of the Tulsa Race Massacre is the grit and
resilience of the Black survivors of racist violence. The 1921
Tulsa Race Massacre: A Photographic History offers a perspective
largely missing from other accounts. At once captivating and
disturbing, it will embolden readers to confront the uncomfortable
legacy of racial violence in U.S. history.
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No Harmless Power
Kevin Matthews, N O Bonzo
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R936
Discovery Miles 9 360
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"Fatal Influence" challenges and revises many widely held
assumptions about a pivotal moment in both British and Irish
history and persuasively demonstrates that Ireland's impact on
British politics lasted far longer and was far greater than has
been realised. Kevin Matthews places the settlement of the Irish
Question in the 1920s within the broader context of a revolution
then taking place in British politics and shows how each affected
the other. In a detailed investigation, he explores the Irish
partition and the often conflicting motives that led to this
momentous decision. Far from solving the Irish Question, dividing
the country into two parts merely created what one politician at
the time called its "elements of dynamite". These explosive
elements were thrown into an already unstable political situation
in Britain, with three political parties - Liberals, Conservatives,
and Labour - all vying for a place in that nation's traditional
two-party system. The book brings together some of the most
colourful characters of 20th-century British and Irish history,
from Winston Churchill and Michael Collins to David Lloyd George
and Eamon de Valera. Looming behind is Sir James Craig, the
rock-like embodiment of Ulster Unionism. But this story of "high
politics" also involves men whose careers are not normally
associated with the Irish conflict, figures such as Stanley
Baldwin, Ramsay MacDonald, Neville Chamberlain and, even, Oswald
Mosley and Anthony Eden.
"Fatal Influence" challenges and revises many widely held
assumptions about a pivotal moment in both British and Irish
history and persuasively demonstrates that Ireland's impact on
British politics lasted far longer and was far greater than has
been realized. Kevin Matthews places the settlement of the Irish
Question in the 1920s within the broader context of a revolution
then taking place in British politics and shows how each affected
the other. In a detailed investigation, he explores the Irish
partition and the often conflicting motives that led to this
momentous decision. Far from solving the Irish Question, dividing
the country into two parts merely created what one politician at
the time called its "elements of dynamite". These explosive
elements were thrown into an already unstable political situation
in Britain, with three political parties - Liberals, Conservatives,
and Labour - all vying for a place in that nation's traditional
two-party system. The book brings together some of the most
colourful characters of 20th-century British and Irish history,
from Winston Churchill and Michael Collins to David Lloyd George
and Eamon de Valera. Looming behind is Sir James Craig, the
rock-like embodiment of Ulster Unionism. But this story of "high
politics" also involves men whose careers are not normally
associated with the Irish conflict, figures such as Stanley
Baldwin, Ramsay MacDonald, Neville Chamberlain and, even, Oswald
Mosley and Anthony Eden.
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