Tulsa, 1921: Reporting a Massacre Cover:Paperback from Reconstruction through Jim Crow

from Reconstruction through Jim Crow and beyond

Now she’s suddenly questioning who her best friends are and some people at school are saying she’s not black enough

basketball star his sons look up to

and life and death is crossed

Tulsa, 1921: Reporting a Massacre Cover:Paperback from Reconstruction through Jim CrowIn 1921 Tulsas Greenwood District, known then as the nations Black Wall Street, was one of the most prosperous African American communities in the United States. But on May 31 of that year, a white mob, inflamed by rumors that a young Black man had attempted to rape a white teenage girl, invaded Greenwood. By the end of the following day, thousands of homes and businesses lay in ashes, and perhaps as many as three hundred people were dead. Tulsa, 1921