Reconstructing the Dreamland: The Tulsa Riot of 1921: Race, Reparations, and ReconciliationOxford University Press, USA, 10 באפר׳ 2003 - 187 עמודים The 1921 Tulsa Race Riot was the country's bloodiest civil disturbance of the century. Thirty city blocks were burned to the ground, perhaps 150 died, and the prosperous black community of Greenwood, Oklahoma, was turned to rubble.Brophy draws on his own extensive research into contemporary accounts and court documents to chronicle this devastating riot, showing how and why the rule of law quickly eroded. Brophy shines his lights on mob violence and racism run amok, both on the night of the riot and the following morning. Equally important, he shows how the city government and police not only permitted looting, shootings, and the burning of Greenwood, but actively participated in it by deputizing white citizens haphazardly, giving out guns and badges, or sending men to arm themselves. Likewise, the National Guard acted unconstitutionally, arresting every black resident they found, leaving property vulnerable to the white mob.Brophy's stark narrative concludes with a discussion of reparations for victims of the riot through lawsuits and legislative action. That case has implications for other reparations movements, including reparations for slavery."Recovers a largely forgotten history of black activism in one of the grimmest periods of race relations.... Linking history with advocacy, Brophy also offers a reasoned defense of reparations for the riot's victims."--Washington Post Book World |
תוכן
Seeking Justice and the Origins of the Riot | 1 |
Thinking He Can Whip the World The Riot | 24 |
Picturing the Riot | 63 |
A White Wash Brush and a Big One in Operation in Tulsa Tulsa Interprets the Riot | 69 |
Tuba Will Tuba Will? Tuba Will Dodge The Failure of Reconstruction | 88 |
Epilogue | 103 |
Notes | 121 |
Bibliographic Essay | 176 |
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
Reconstructing the Dreamland: The Tulsa Riot of 1921 : Race, Reparations ... <span dir=ltr>Alfred L. Brophy</span> אין תצוגה מקדימה זמינה - 2002 |
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
A.J. Smitherman action airplanes American armed arrested August black and white black community BLACK DISPATCH black newspapers blame burned Chandler CHICAGO DEFENDER claims clause colored courthouse damage Defendant's Brief deputies Dick Rowland DISPATCH 4 June district editorial equal federal filed fire Gabe grand jury grandfather clause Greenwood residents guns Gurley Gustafson homa J.B. Stradford jail jazz June 11 justice killed law enforcement Little Africa lynchers lynching McCullough MUSKOGEE CIMETER National Guard nigger Okla Oklahoma City Oklahoma State Archives Oklahoma Supreme Court Oklahoma's blacks ordinance police officers promised protect racial railroad Ralph Ellison rebuilding Reconstruction Redfearn reparations for slavery segregation sheriff shooting shot Sowders statute story street supra note 14 testimony tion told TRIBUNE 1 June Tulsa County Tulsa police Tulsa Race Riot Tulsa riot TULSA STAR TULSA TRIBUNE TULSA WORLD violence white Tulsa WORLD 1 June
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עמוד 181 - Eric J. Sundquist, To Wake the Nations: Race in the Making of American Literature (Cambridge, Mass...