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The ground breaking : an American city and its search for justice / Scott Ellsworth.

Author/creator	Ellsworth, Scott (Historian) author.
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	[New York, New York] : Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2021]
Copyright Notice	©2021
Description	321 pages ; 24 cm
Subject(s)	Tulsa Race Massacre, Tulsa, Okla., 1921. African Americans--Violence against --Oklahoma --Tulsa --History --20th century. Exhumation--Oklahoma --Tulsa --History --21st century. Forensic archaeology--Oklahoma --Tulsa --History --21st century. African Americans--Reparations --Oklahoma --Tulsa --History --21st century. Greenwood (Tulsa, Okla.)--Race relations --History --20th century. Greenwood (Tulsa, Okla.)--History --20th century. Tulsa (Okla.)--Race relations --History --20th century.

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Portion of title	American city and its search for justice
Contents	1921 -- After -- Awakenings -- Two summers -- Death in a promised land -- Where are the rest? -- The lady with a cane -- Tulsa calls -- Reparations and reprisals -- The steps to nowhere -- Rolexes and pickup trucks -- Reminding a city of her sins -- Breaking ground -- Bodies of evidence -- The dirt whisperers.
Abstract	"The definitive, newsbreaking account of the ongoing investigation into the Tulsa race massacre. In the late spring of 1921, Tulsa, Oklahoma, erupted into the worst single incident of racial violence in American history. Over the course of sixteen hours, mobs of white men and women looted and burned to the ground a prosperous African American community, known today as Black Wall Street. More than one thousand homes and businesses were destroyed, and scores, possibly hundreds, of people lost their lives. Then, for nearly a half century, the story of the massacre was actively suppressed. Official records disappeared, history textbooks ignored the tragedy, and citizens were warned to keep silent. Now nearly one hundred years after that horrible day, historian Scott Ellsworth returns to his hometown to tell the untold story of how America's foremost hidden racial tragedy was finally brought to light, and the unlikely cast of characters that made it happen. Part true-crime saga, part archaeological puzzle, and part investigative journalism, The Ground Breaking weaves in and out of recent history, the distant past, and the modern day to tell a compelling story of a city-and a nation-struggling to come to terms with the dark corners of its past"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-308) and index.
Issued in other form	Online version: Ellsworth, Scott (Historian) Ground breaking [New York] : Dutton, [2021] 9780593183007
Genre/form	History.
LCCN	2020057916
ISBN	9780593182987 hardcover
ISBN	0593182987 hardcover
ISBN	electronic book
Standard identifier#	40030626087
Stock number	Penguin Group USA, Attn: Order Processing 405 Murray Hill Pkwy, East Rutherford, NJ, USA, 07073-2136 SAN 201-3975

Available Items

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	Ronnie Barnes African American Collection	F704.T92 E443 2021	✔ Available	Place Hold