Download or read book Telling Our Stories Based on the Events of the 1921 Race Riot Volume II written by Rodney L Clark and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-10 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Telling Our Stories (Based on the Events of the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot) Volume II In, The Silent Chapter, Henry and Helen's chicken café continues to be prosperous in Tulsa, Oklahoma's Greenwood District (Black Wall Street). Mildred turns down an offer of marriage to fulfill her dream of going to Langston University to become a teacher. Henry scolds Mildred for wanting to talk about the race massacre and tells her to let it go. Henry succumbs and Helen is faced to sell the restaurant to businessman George Maxwell. His apparent love affair leaves him alone to care for his wife and children.In, Known...But Not Discussed the race massacre continues to be subject of non-discussion. The Negroes of Tulsa, Oklahoma's Greenwood District continue to thrive with good businesses. This story takes place in a barber and beauty shop. The Oklahoma Eagle Newspaper serves as an historical backdrop to the story line. Mildred's first husband Elijah is killed in the war and she eventually marries her second husband Joe Burkhalter. Mildred's relationship with Joe turns violent as she struggles to maintain her dignity.In, Nothing...Not a Word...In Tulsa, the race massacre continues to be a topic of non-discussion. The story takes place at "Leroy's Place" a juke joint in the Tulsa community. The characters intermingle at the juke joint and have philosophical discussions about the community and national civic issues. The story turns after a gambling game goes awry and the characters must face decisions on how to resolve unforeseen circumstances. Mary works at the juke joint. Mildred visits her frequently to discuss Mary's daughter who is a student at Booker T. Washington. Another student questions why no one wants to discuss the race massacre and vows to bring the issue to the forefront of the community.
Download or read book Telling Our Stories Based on Events of the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot Volume I written by Rodney Clark and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-23 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Volume One, Telling Our Stories (Based on the Events of the 1921 Race Riot), three plays entitled The Griffins, Greenwood, and Gurley's Glorious Greenwood...Gone, dramatizes stories inspired by true events from March 28, 1921 until June 15, 1921. In The Griffins, Alex and Mattie Griffin are successful entrepreneurs in the Negro business section on Greenwood Avenue in Tulsa, Oklahoma (Black Wallstreet) in 1921. The planned lynching of a 19-year-old Negro boy (Dick Rowland) for allegedly raping a young white girl (Sarah Page) in an elevator sparks the worst race riot in history. The Griffin family experiences these events (based on true accounts) during the hot summer of 1921. The story is told through a fictional account from the eyes of the Griffin family. Their experiences epitomize the events from a perspective of an African-American family during one of the worst calamities of the United States.In Greenwood, the riot turns into a massacre as black people run for their lives from gunfire and airplanes dropping bombs. Although a few valiant black men fought hard to save the Greenwood community, the enormous number of white men overwhelmed them and killed many black families that included innocent women and children. This story witnesses the true accounts of families fighting for their survival. Characters tell the story of how over thirty-four blocks of a once vibrant community was destroyed and personal belongings of black people were taken by white mobs. The witnesses share their experiences of seeing people killed, loaded on trucks, thrown in the Arkansas river and in buried in mass graves.In Gurley's Glorious Greenwood...Gone, the resilience of the African-American community is challenged with rebuilding Greenwood despite the road blocks from the white citizens of Tulsa. The different philosophies of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Dubois lay the theoretical foundation for an argument that focuses on how the community should move forward. Passiveness wins out as the African-Americans who remain in Tulsa silently rebuild their homes and businesses regardless of the difficult challenges ahead.
Download or read book Telling Our Stories Based on the Events of the 1921 Race Riot Volume I New Edition written by Rodney L Clark and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-14 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Volume One, Telling Our Stories (Based on the Events of the 1921 Race Riot), three plays entitled The Griffins, Greenwood, and Gurley's Glorious Greenwood...Gone, dramatizes stories inspired by true events from March 28, 1921 until June 15, 1921. In The Griffins, Alex and Mattie Griffin are successful entrepreneurs in the Negro business section on Greenwood Avenue in Tulsa, Oklahoma (Black Wallstreet) in 1921. The planned lynching of a 19-year-old Negro boy (Dick Rowland) for allegedly raping a young white girl (Sarah Page) in an elevator sparks the worst race riot in history. The Griffin family experiences these events (based on true accounts) during the hot summer of 1921. The story is told through a fictional account from the eyes of the Griffin family. Their experiences epitomize the events from a perspective of an African-American family during one of the worst calamities of the United States.In Greenwood, the riot turns into a massacre as black people run for their lives from gunfire and airplanes dropping bombs. Although a few valiant black men fought hard to save the Greenwood community, the enormous number of white men overwhelmed them and killed many black families that included innocent women and children. This story witnesses the true accounts of families fighting for their survival. Characters tell the story of how over thirty-four blocks of a once vibrant community was destroyed and personal belongings of black people were taken by white mobs. The witnesses share their experiences of seeing people killed, loaded on trucks, thrown in the Arkansas river and in buried in mass graves.In Gurley's Glorious Greenwood...Gone, the resilience of the African-American community is challenged with rebuilding Greenwood despite the road blocks from the white citizens of Tulsa. The different philosophies of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Dubois lay the theoretical foundation for an argument that focuses on how the community should move forward. Passiveness wins out as the African-Americans who remain in Tulsa silently rebuild their homes and businesses regardless of the difficult challenges ahead.
Download or read book Death in a Promised Land written by Scott Ellsworth and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widely believed to be the most extreme incident of white racial violence against African Americans in modern United States history, the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre resulted in the destruction of over one thousand black-owned businesses and homes as well as the murder of between fifty and three hundred black residents. Exhaustively researched and critically acclaimed, Scott Ellsworth’s Death in a Promised Land is the definitive account of the Tulsa race riot and its aftermath, in which much of the history of the destruction and violence was covered up. It is the compelling story of racial ideologies, southwestern politics, and incendiary journalism, and of an embattled black community’s struggle to hold onto its land and freedom. More than just the chronicle of one of the nation’s most devastating racial pogroms, this critically acclaimed study of American race relations is, above all, a gripping story of terror and lawlessness, and of courage, heroism, and human perseverance.
Download or read book The Tulsa Massacre of 1921 written by Charles River Editors and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-23 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Includes pictures *Includes excerpts of contemporary accounts *Includes a bibliography for further reading "Lurid flames roared and belched and licked their forked tongues into the air. Smoke ascended the sky in thick, black volumes and amid it all, the planes - now a dozen or more in number - still hummed and darted here and there with the agility of natural birds of the air." - Eyewitness account It all began on Memorial Day, May 31, 1921. Around or after 4:00 p.m. that day, a clerk at Renberg's clothing store on the first floor of the Drexel Building in Tulsa heard a woman scream. Turning in the direction of the scream, he saw a young black man running from the building. Going to the elevator, the clerk found the white elevator operator, 17-year-old Sarah Page, crying and distraught. The clerk concluded that she had been assaulted by the black man he saw running a few moments earlier and called the police. Those facts are just about the only things people agree on when it comes to the riot in Tulsa in 1921. By the time the unrest ended, an unknown number of Tulsa's black citizens were dead, over 800 people were injured, and what had been the wealthiest black community in the United States had been laid to waste. In the days after the riot, a group formed to work on rebuilding the Greenwood neighborhood, which had been all but destroyed. The former mayor of Tulsa, Judge J. Martin, declared, "Tulsa can only redeem herself from the country-wide shame and humiliation into which she is today plunged by complete restitution and rehabilitation of the destroyed black belt. The rest of the United States must know that the real citizenship of Tulsa weeps at this unspeakable crime and will make good the damage, so far as it can be done, to the last penny." However, financial assistance would be slow in coming, a jury would find that black mobs were responsible for the damage, and not a single person was ever convicted as a result of the riot. Indeed, given that racist violence directed at blacks was the norm in the Jim Crow South, and accusations of black teens or adults violating young white girls were often accepted without evidence, people barely batted an eye at the damage wrought by the riot, which would remain largely overlooked for almost 70 years. Only in the last two decades have Oklahomans reckoned with this shameful episode in their history. The Tulsa Massacre of 1921: The Controversial History and Legacy of America's Worst Race Riot examines the conditions and events that led to the riot, the damage done, and the aftermath. Along with pictures depicting important people, places, and events, you will learn about the Tulsa race riot of 1921 like never before.
Download or read book Up from the Ashes written by Hannibal Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-15 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: UP FROM THE ASHES tells the story of the development, destruction, and rebuilding of a dynamic neighborhood from a child's perspective. Based on actual historical events, during the Tulsa, Oklahoma, race riots in 1921, it is a positive, life-affirming book. Readers will discover what it means to be part of a community, with all its ups and downs. The book demonstrates many of the timeless virtues we all cherish, not just for ourselves, but for our children: faith, determination, integrity, humility, and compassion.
Download or read book Dreamland Burning written by Jennifer Latham and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2017-02-21 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling dual-narrated tale from Jennifer Latham that questions how far we've come with race relations. Some bodies won't stay buried. Some stories need to be told. When seventeen-year-old Rowan Chase finds a skeleton on her family's property, she has no idea that investigating the brutal century-old murder will lead to a summer of painful discoveries about the present and the past. Nearly one hundred years earlier, a misguided violent encounter propels seventeen-year-old Will Tillman into a racial firestorm. In a country rife with violence against blacks and a hometown segregated by Jim Crow, Will must make hard choices on a painful journey towards self discovery and face his inner demons in order to do what's right the night Tulsa burns. Through intricately interwoven alternating perspectives, Jennifer Latham's lightning-paced page-turner brings the Tulsa race riot of 1921 to blazing life and raises important questions about the complex state of US race relations--both yesterday and today.
Download or read book Death in a Promised Land written by Robert Andrews and published by Pocket Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The conspiracies that killed Martin Luther King, Jr., began unraveling two days after the Soviet Union ceaced to exist. So begins this scintillating work of fiction that explores the controversial questions that remain 25 years after one of America's most cataclysmic tragedies.
Download or read book The Nation Must Awake written by Mary E. Jones Parrish and published by Trinity University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Parrish was reading in her home when the Tulsa race massacre began on the evening of May 31, 1921. Parrish’s daughter, Florence Mary, called the young journalist and teacher to the window. “Mother,” she said, “I see men with guns.” The two eventually fled and unwittingly became eyewitnesses to the death of hundreds of Black Oklahomans and the destruction of the Greenwood district, a prosperous, primarily Black area known nationally as Black Wall Street. The Nation Must Awake is Parrish’s first-person account, compiled along with the recollections of nearly two dozen others, of what is now recognized as the single worst incident of racial violence in U.S. history.
Download or read book Unspeakable written by Carole Boston Weatherford and published by Carolrhoda Books ®. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Coretta Scott King Book Awards for Author and Illustrator A Caldecott Honor Book A Sibert Honor Book Longlisted for the National Book Award A Kirkus Prize Finalist A Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book "A must-have"—Booklist (starred review) Celebrated author Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrator Floyd Cooper provide a powerful look at the Tulsa Race Massacre, one of the worst incidents of racial violence in our nation's history. The book traces the history of African Americans in Tulsa's Greenwood district and chronicles the devastation that occurred in 1921 when a white mob attacked the Black community. News of what happened was largely suppressed, and no official investigation occurred for seventy-five years. This picture book sensitively introduces young readers to this tragedy and concludes with a call for a better future. Download the free educator guide here: https://lernerbooks.com/download/unspeakableteachingguide
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Download or read book Tulsa 1921 written by Randy Krehbiel and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2019-09-19 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1921 Tulsa’s Greenwood District, known then as the nation’s “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 shines new light into the shadows that have long been cast over this extraordinary instance of racial violence. With the clarity and descriptive power of a veteran journalist, author Randy Krehbiel digs deep into the events and their aftermath and investigates decades-old questions about the local culture at the root of what one writer has called a white-led pogrom. Krehbiel analyzes local newspaper accounts in an unprecedented effort to gain insight into the minds of contemporary Tulsans. In the process he considers how the Tulsa World, the Tulsa Tribune, and other publications contributed to the circumstances that led to the disaster and helped solidify enduring white justifications for it. Some historians have dismissed local newspapers as too biased to be of value for an honest account, but by contextualizing their reports, Krehbiel renders Tulsa’s papers an invaluable resource, highlighting the influence of news media on our actions in the present and our memories of the past. The Tulsa Massacre was a result of racial animosity and mistrust within a culture of political and economic corruption. In its wake, Black Tulsans were denied redress and even the right to rebuild on their own property, yet they ultimately prevailed and even prospered despite systemic racism and the rise during the 1920s of the second Ku Klux Klan. As Krehbiel considers the context and consequences of the violence and devastation, he asks, Has the city—indeed, the nation—exorcised the prejudices that led to this tragedy?
Download or read book The Ground Breaking written by Scott Ellsworth and published by Icon Books. This book was released on 2021-05-20 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ** Chosen by Oprah Daily as one of the Best Books to Pick Up in May 2021 ** 'Fast-paced but nuanced ... impeccably researched ... a much-needed book' The Guardian ''[S]o dystopian and apocalyptic that you can hardly believe what you are reading. ... But the story [it] tells is an essential one, with just a glimmer of hope in it. Because of the work of Ellsworth and many others, America is finally staring this appalling chapter of its history in the face. It's not a pretty sight.' Sunday Times A gripping exploration of the worst single incident of racial violence in American history, timed to coincide with its 100th anniversary. On 31 May 1921, in the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, a mob of white men and women reduced a prosperous African American community, known as Black Wall Street, to rubble, leaving countless dead and unaccounted for, and thousands of homes and businesses destroyed. But along with the bodies, they buried the secrets of the crime. Scott Ellsworth, a native of Tulsa, became determined to unearth the secrets of his home town. Now, nearly 40 years after his first major historical account of the massacre, Ellsworth returns to the city in search of answers. Along with a prominent African American forensic archaeologist whose family survived the riots, Ellsworth has been tasked with locating and exhuming the mass graves and identifying the victims for the first time. But the investigation is not simply to find graves or bodies - it is a reckoning with one of the darkest chapters of American history. '[A] riveting, painful-to-read account of a mass crime that, to our everlasting shame ... has avoided justice. Ellsworth's book presents us with a clear history of the Tulsa massacre and with that rendering, a chance for atonement ... Readers of this book will fervently hope we take that opportunity.' Washington Post
Download or read book Riot and Remembrance written by James S. Hirsch and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2002 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A buried part of history comes to light in this informative account of the Black Wall Street Massacre in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1921"--
Download or read book Fire in Beulah written by Rilla Askew and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2001-12-31 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A haunting, engrossing portrait of two families – one white, one Black – whose lives are woven together and then shattered” (The Washington Post) by the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Oil-boom opulence, fear, hate, and lynchings are the backdrop for this riveting novel about one of the worst incidents of violence in American history. Althea Whiteside, an oil-wildcatter’s high-strung white wife, and her enigmatic Black maid, Graceful, share a complex connection during the tense days of the Oklahoma oil rush. Their juxtaposing stories – and those of others close to them – unfold as tensions mount to a violent climax in the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, during which whites burned the city’s prosperous Black neighborhood to the ground. The massacre becomes the crucible that melds and tests each of the character in this masterful exploration of the American race story and the ties that bind us irrevocably to one another.
Download or read book Tulsa Race Riot written by Oklahoma Commission to Riot of 1921 and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2001-02-28 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 was the worst civil disturbance since the Civil War. On May 21, 1921, a group of white Oklahomans attacked the prosperous African American community, called the Greenwood District or "the Black Wall Street" in Tulsa, OK over the alleged assault of a white woman by a black man. 24 hours later more than 800 people were admitted to local hospitals, 10,000 residents were homeless, and 35 city blocks were reduced to rubble. The monetary cost of the riot was later estimated to be 26 million dollars. This report examines the events leading up to the riot, the riot itself, and the consideration of reparations for the victims.
Download or read book Events of the Tulsa Disaster written by Mary E. Jones Parrish and published by . This book was released on 1922* with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the Tulsa race riot of 1921 with a collection of shorter witness testimonials and a partial list of property and financial losses of its victims.
