The Burning: The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921

Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 0312302479 ISBN13: 9780312302474 Release Date: February 2003 Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin Length: 320 Pages Weight: 0.65 lbs. Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.2" "A powerful book, a harrowing case study made all the more so by Madigan's skillful, clear-eyed telling of it." --Adam Nossiter, The New York Times Book Review 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. 34 square blocks of Tulsa's Greenwood community, known then as the Negro Wall Street of America, were reduced to smoldering rubble. And now, 80 years later, the death toll of what is known as the Tulsa Race Riot is more difficult to pinpoint. Conservative estimates put the number of dead at about 100 (75% of the victims are believed to have been black), but the actual numbe