Riot and remembrance : the Tulsa race war and its legacy /

Hirsch, James S.

Riot and remembrance : the Tulsa race war and its legacy / James S. Hirsch. - Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2002 - viii, 358 p. : ill. 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [333]-339) and index.

Offers an account of the 1921 race riot that destroyed the Greenwood section of Tulsa, Oklahoma, leaving hundreds of black residents dead, and describes the battle for belated justice and reparations for the victims.

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African American neighborhoods--Oklahoma
African Americans--Oklahoma
Racism--Tulsa
Riots--Oklahoma
Violence--Tulsa--Oklahoma--Oklahoma--Tulsa--Tulsa--Tulsa

F 704.T92 / .H615 2002