The burning : the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921

Author

Tim Madigan

Call Number

• 976.686 M182 2021 (CEN)

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Edition

First St. Martin's Griffin edition.

Publication Information

New York : St. Martin's Griffin, 2021.

Physical Description

xxii, 343 pages ; 21 cm

Summary

"On the morning of June 1, 1921, a white mob numbering in the thousands marched across the railroad tracks dividing black from white in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and obliterated a black community then celebrated as one of America's most prosperous. Thirty-four square blocks of Tulsa's Greenwood community, known then as Negro Wall Street of America, were reduced to smoldering rubble. With chilling details, humanity, and the narrative thrust of compelling fiction, The Burning re-creates the town of Greenwood at the height of its prosperity; explores the currents of hatred, racism, and mistrust between its Black residents and neighboring Tulsa's white population; narrates events leading up to and including Greenwood's annihilation; and documents the subsequent silence that surrounded the tragedy."--Page 4 of cover.

Notes

Originally edition published: New York, N.Y. : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2001, under the title: The burning: massacre, destruction, and the Tulsa race riot of 1921. This 100th anniversary edition features a new afterword. by the author.

Contents

• Prologue: Like Judgment Day
• Beyond hatred's reach
• Lincoln's devotee
• Diamond Dick and the KKK
• The sheriff's promise
• Down the road to apocalypse
• Be ready at daybreak
• The attack on Greenwood
• A single ruthless organism
• The Negro Alamo
• Are you Dr. Jackson?
• Sick from what I see
• Assignment of a lifetime
• Scorched earth
• A Christmas carol
• What do you say now?
• The veil lifted.