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.
"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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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Random House,
[2023]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 656 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm |
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Epic story of Tulsa's Greenwood district, America's Black Wall Street |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Prologue
- Do not hesitate, but come
- And sometimes better, besides
- Black capital
- False promises
- The war at home and abroad
- "Get a gun and get busy"
- The massacre
- A conspiracy in plain sight
- Far from home
- The myth of an impervious people
- Sugar Man
- Family business
- A world apart
- Separate but equal
- Crossing the line
- You'll be a man, my son
- Somewhere between hope and expectation
- A slower burn
- Handoffs
- In flesh and stone
- Reconciliation day
- "Trust the system"
- This is our time
- Dissolution
- The rituals of remembrance
- Beyond ceremony
- Epilogue.