Built from the fire : the epic story of Tulsa's Greenwood district, America's Black Wall Street : one hundred years in the neighborhood that refused to be erased / Victor Luckerson.

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"When Ed Goodwin moved with his parents to Greenwood, Tulsa, his family joined a growing community on the cusp of becoming the center of Black life in the West. But, just a few years later, on May 31, 1921, the teenaged Ed hid in a bathtub as a white mob descended on his neighborhood. They laid wast...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Luckerson, Victor (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York : Random House, [2023]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Greenwood (Tulsa, Okla.) > Race relations > History.
Tulsa (Okla.) > Race relations > History.
Tulsa Race Massacre, Tulsa, Okla., 1921.
Goodwin family.
Urban renewal > Oklahoma > Tulsa > History.
African Americans > Oklahoma > Tulsa > Social conditions.
African Americans > Oklahoma > Tulsa > Biography.
Greenwood (Tulsa, Okla.) > Biography.
Tulsa (Okla.) > Biography.
HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
African Americans.
African Americans > Social conditions.
Race relations.
Urban renewal.
Oklahoma > Tulsa.
African Americans > Biography.
Tulsa (Okla.)
1921
Biographies.
History.
Genre:
Biography.
Biographies.
History.
Physical Description:xiv, 656 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm
Variant Title:
Epic story of Tulsa's Greenwood district, America's Black Wall Street
Format: Book

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