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"The Burning" reconstructs Tulsa’s Greenwood—known as the "Negro Wall Street of America"—at the height of its prosperity before a white mob of thousands stormed the neighborhood on June 1, 1921, reducing 34 square blocks to smoldering rubble. The book examines the racial tensions that led to the riot, the staggering death toll—widely estimated at about one hundred, possibly up to three hundred—and the silence that followed. With the Tulsa Race Riot Commission’s recommendations for restitution, the work offers a comprehensive account of the event’s legacy and the ongoing journey toward healing.
First publish date: 2001
Genre: History/Modern History
Authors: Tim Madigan
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