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The ground breaking, an American city and its search for justice, Scott Ellsworth

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-308) and index

contains biographical information

index present

non fiction

The ground breaking

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Scott Ellsworth

an American city and its search for justice

"And then they were gone. More than one thousand homes and businesses. Restaurants and movie theaters, churches and doctors offices, a hospital, a public library, a post office. Looted, burned, and bombed from the air. Over the course of less than twenty-four hours in the spring of 1921, Tulsas famous zBlack Wall Streety was wiped off the map and erased from the history books. Official records disappeared, researchers were threatened, and the worst single incident of racial violence in American history lay buried for more than fifty years. But there were some secrets that would not die. A riveting and essential new book, The Ground Breaking not only tells the long-suppressed story of the notorious Tulsa race massacre, it also unearths the lost history of how the massacre was covered up, and of the courageous individuals who fought to keep the story alive. Most important, it recounts the ongoing archaeological and true-crime saga of the search for the unmarked graves of the victims of the massacre, and of the fight to win restitution for the survivors and their families. Both a forgotten chronicle from the nations past and a story ripped from todays headlines, The Ground Breaking is a page-turning reflection on how we, as Americans, must wrestle with the parts of our history that have been buried for far too long."--, Inside front jacket flap

American city and its search for justice