Reconstructing the Dreamland: The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921, Race Reparations, and Reconciliation

by Alfred L. Brophy

Book Overview

The 1921 Tulsa Race Riot was the country's bloodiest civil disturbance of the century. Leaving perhaps 150 dead, 30 city blocks burned to the ground, and more than a thousand families homeless, the riot represented an unprecedented breakdown of the rule of law. It reduced the prosperous black community of Greenwood, Oklahoma, to rubble.
In Reconstructing the Dreamland, Alfred Brophy draws on his own extensive research into contemporary accounts...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195146859
• ISBN13: 9780195146851
• Release Date: February 2002
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.5"